PdF:SP_IEM Introduction to Educational Ma - Course Information

SP_IEM Introduction to Educational Management and Leadership

Extent and Intensity

2/0/0. 4 credit(s). Type of Completion: z (credit).

Teacher(s)

Tinatin Chitorelidze, Ph.D. (lecturer)

Guaranteed by

prof. PhDr. Marie Vítková, CSc.
Institute for Research in Inclusive Education – Faculty of Education
Contact Person: prof. PhDr. Karel Pančocha, Ph.D., M.Sc.
Supplier department: Institute for Research in Inclusive Education – Faculty of Education

Prerequisites

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Course Enrolment Limitations

The course is offered to students of any study field.
The capacity limit for the course is 20 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 0/20, only registered: 0/20, only registered with preference (fields directly associated with the programme): 0/20

Course objectives

At the end of the course students will be able to: • Understand the basic concepts in administration and management • Define the major managerial functions • Understand the current theories of educational leadership • Define leadership and leadership styles • Understand the key practices of success educational leadership • Understand the issues and challenges facing educational leaders • Distinguish between management and leadership • Define the concepts of organization, management and administration • Understand organizational behavior • Identify characteristics of organizations • Define the different types of organizations • Understand the change processes and their impact upon organizations • Highlight the roles of the school to the community • Explain the main underlying concepts, approaches and trends in educational management; • Define the best leadership style that an institutional administrator could adopt and why? • Apply the principles underlying each managerial function to an educational setting • Explain the principles of classical management movement. • Relate the contribution of human relations movement to organizational management. • Explain the behavioral science movement approaches to management • Identify categories of theories of motivation • Understand theories and models of evaluation • Understand human resources development and management issues and their relationship to other developments in education • Develop skills in the analysis of policy developments and factors affecting the implementation of human resources and management policies • Understand the characteristics and concepts of a learning community; • Understand a process for working collaboratively to develop a learning community; • Understand a range of competencies necessary in developing and achieving an educational vision for the educational institutions • Identify key strategies for implementing change, • Understand the nature of school and systemic transformation; • Understand the role of the leader in bringing about educational transformation; • Identifying characteristics relating to effective school cultures and student achievement • Considering the importance of a school's mission and vision • Reviewing the change process: mobilization, implementation and institutionalization • Understand the principal’s role in creating a school mission and vision and supportive goals and implementation • Analyze various roles of school leaders relating to decision making, collaboration, political and public relations, communication, conflict resolution, and management. • Identify and describe the skills, behaviors, and characteristics of effective leaders.

Syllabus

• 1. Educational Leadership The starting point for this lecture is a review of theories of leadership: what is educational leadership and what are the different styles of educational leadership (Autocratic Leadership, Bureaucratic Leadership, Charismatic Leadership, Democratic/Participative Leadership, Laissez -Faire Leadership, People – Oriented/Relations – Oriented Leadership, Task – Oriented Leadership, Transactional Leadership, Transformational Leadership, Situational /Contingency Leadership). We also look at some of the challenges of leadership and the responsibilities leadership brings. Students will consider what it takes to be a leader and what kind of knowledge and abilities it requires. 2. Educational management In this lecture we will discuss the historical development of management, deal with the classical movement, human relations movement and behavioral science movement. The key personalities behind each movement will be discussed and their contribution to management thought explained. Theories of educational management are then presented, followed by the functions of management (Planning, Organizing, Directing, Coordinating (Controlling)). 3. Distinguishing educational leadership and management (leading versus managing) This lecture focuses upon distinguishing between education leadership and management: what are the similarities or differences of leadership and management roles, functions and tasks, importance of leadership and what it involves in a variety of organizational settings. Students will review and discuss leadership theories and management approaches. Topics include best practices in management, motivation, vision and performance. More detailed attention is then given to current and emerging issues in leadership in educational organizations, including the contribution of leaders to outcomes. 4. Organizational theory and administration in education This lecture explores the development of organization theory: Concepts, theories and models from the perspectives of the Historical, Modern, Symbolic Interpretive and Postmodern periods (different approaches of Taylor, Weber, Greenfield and Morgan to management and administration). Students will be able to understand organization theories in the context of leading and managing educational teams and organizations, theories and principles of team and organizational structure and effectiveness in educational management, Organizational and Administrative Structure, Types of organization, Classification of organization, Characteristics of organization and principles of organization (unity of objectives (stability, flexibility, cooperation, division of labor and evaluation). 5. Organizational climate and culture This lecture focuses upon the internal and external forces that influence the culture of educational organizations and uses the competing theories and alternative approaches to management development to build upon the basic concepts. Students will be able to understand vision and mission and their relationships to the development of a unique organizational culture, examine values, norms, storytelling, and the importance of collaboration strategies to understand school culture and implement the change process. They will Review effective schools practices and how principals’ behavior can shape the culture. 6. Theories of motivation This lecture focuses upon the theories of motivation: content theories and process theories (Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs, Herzberg’s Two Factor Theory and ERG Theory, Vroom’s Expectancy model, Equity Theory and Goal setting theory). Students will be able to explain the contribution of each of the theories to education management. 7. Managing organizational change (School Effectiveness and Improvement) The key themes of institutional effectiveness, educational improvement and change are introduced in this lecture along with the related concept of evaluation. The lecture explores with a special focus on leadership for school and systemic transformation. The Leadership Framework provides a conceptual tool to consider school and systemic transformation and includes seven dimensions: moral imperative, personal competence, strategic vision, teaching and learning, developing people, developing the organization and systemic and social justice. Students will study the techniques for managing change and understand shifting conceptions of leadership, evolved in response to the adaptive challenge of system change, which demands on new ways of thinking and operating for the 21st century. 8. Decision Making in Educational Administration The lecture will focus on theories of collaborative decision-making. The individual organization is looked at from the point of view of its structures, its own institutional culture and the way power is distributed. Students will learn what types of decision school administrators take, how are decision made, how can decision-making models and techniques help school administrators improve their decisions and what are the benefits or problems of group decision making. During this course students will also discuss the theories of conflict resolution and study effective skills to manage conflicts educational settings. 9. Human resource management in educational organizations (Evaluation of Teaching and Learning) The lecture concentrates on teacher management and enables students to develop their knowledge in the following areas: main organizational aspects of human resource management in the education sector, basic concepts of human resources management and their evolution, the role of professional development (especially training and social relations in the education sector), performance management, conditions and employment, productivity issues and staff relations, teacher appraisal systems and evaluation, methods of evaluation, job satisfaction and motivation. 10. School – community relations, Managing Inclusive Schools In this lecture will be discussed the meaning of a school and the concept of a community, the roles, of the school to the community as well as the roles of the community to the school. Students will study various factors that can encourage mutual relationship between the school and the community and the roles of school head in school-community relationship, as a communicator and proactively partnering and leading activities. 11. Organizations as learning communities (leadership for learning community) This lecture explores the concepts of the learning organization and organizational learning. It starts by considering the question: what do we mean by learning? It then goes on to consider the implications for leaders and managers if they are to promote effective learning and the role of the wider community in supporting and enabling learning. The role of the staff within a school, college or educational system is key to success, and this lecture considers two ways in which human resource management links to learning and the implications of this for leaders and managers. The importance of continuing professional development for staff and the support and growth of learning communities is stressed. Students will study structures and processes which either facilitate or hinder the learning which happens in organizations. 12. Education policy, strategy and their implications to educational management In this lecture will be considered the origins of policy into educational provision, importance of understanding the changing world of policy and the effects of the policy process. Students will study how is policy made, and by whom, what kinds of transnational influences affect the policy process, and to what extent and how different countries respond to difference (class, ethnic, gender, age), in a world of increasing diversity, migration and mobility. Students will understand the relationship between educational policies and educational management and identify how institutions are affected by national and international policy and change, including initiatives of access, equity and social justice.

Literature

recommended literature
• BUSHER, Hugh. Understanding educational leadership : people, power and culture. 1st pub. Berkshire: Open University Press, 2006, vii, 189. ISBN 0335217184. info

Teaching methods

Lecture on provided topics, case discussions, groupwork, reading different articles, independent study of specialized sources

Assessment methods

1) Case study involvement and class participation 2) Final exam: Write a paper describing school or university in sense of leadership, culture, vision, mission, organization, decision-making, and specific challenge, issue or problem. Define the problem/issue, provide 2 or 3 possible strategies to solve/improve the problem/issue, select and describe the best solution, explain how/if the solution "matches" any leadership strategy/style and if cultural and/or diversity issues relate to your challenge, issue, or problem.

Language of instruction

English

Further comments (probably available only in Czech)

The course is taught: every week.

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