Exploring educational leadership

This free course, Exploring educational leadership, provides an overview of the field of educational leadership and management. You will explore: the relationships between management and leadership; the scope of the field; different world views that underpin educational leadership research and practice; and some key concepts such as agency, power and authority and context. You will consider some differences between concepts, models and theories and be introduced to some questions that will help you evaluate different educational leadership theories and models.

• Introduction
• Learning outcomes
• 1 The leader, educational leadership and management
• 1 The leader, educational leadership and management
• 2 Studying educational leadership and management
• 2 Studying educational leadership and management
• 3 Making sense of educational leadership studies
• 3 Making sense of educational leadership studies
• 4 Agency
• 4 Agency
• 5 Power and authority
• 5 Power and authority
• 6 Power as a dynamic social process
• 6 Power as a dynamic social process
• 7 Educational organisations
• 7 Educational organisations
• 8 Concepts, theories and models
• 8 Concepts, theories and models
• 9 Evaluating theories and models
• 9 Evaluating theories and models
• 10 Educational leadership and management: contested concepts
• 10 Educational leadership and management: contested concepts
• Conclusion
• References
• Acknowledgements