Course overview
In Critical orientations to school leadership, you are invited to bring dispositions of curiosity, critique and problematisation to an analysis of the power relations, policy discourses and identity constructions that shape and constitute school leaders and their work. Contextually, the course is based around a critical analysis of neoliberalism as a currently dominant rationality and influence on schooling policy. While the work of analysis aims to support you in mounting a defensible critique of current arrangements, it is also directed to the knowledge possibilities yielded by this critique. These including developing alternative models and ways of leading, building a broader and more responsive pedagogical repertoire, and considering new and more democratic processes of teacher/leader participation and decision making.
- Bringing Criticality To Leadership
- In Neoliberal Times
- Leadership And Pedagogical Practice
Course learning outcomes
- Understand and apply a critically oriented approach to the study of school leadership
- Demonstrate the dispositions and practices of a critical scholar
- Analyse the way education policy reflects currently dominant rationalities of government
- Critically analyse contemporary policy issues affecting school leadership
- Understand the links between a critical orientation in the study of school leadership and school-based projects of positive reform
Availability
Class details
Online
Group 1
Class number 31427
Section 01OL
Size 20
Available 10
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