Inclusive Leadership: Collaborating for professional development

This free course will enable leaders and aspiring leaders in a range of educational settings to consider different approaches to leading inclusive professional development. Students will be introduced to concepts and practices for collaborative enquiry and contextually relevant professional development. They will be encouraged to reflect on how these approaches can contribute to inclusive communities of practice within their organisation and how they might support the needs of educators at different stages of their career. They will also examine how inclusive leadership for professional development can foster agency and individual development in staff members as well as driving institutional change.If you haven’t already, you might want to consider exploring the related OpenLearn course Inclusive Leadership: Effecting change before starting this course. You might also be interested in the Open University Inclusive Practice Leadership and Management Masters pathways.

• 1 Inclusive Leadership and communities of practice
• 1.1 A collective view?
• 1.2 Whose community?
• 2 Inclusive Leadership and collaborative enquiry
• 2.1 Trying to be collaborative, inclusive and distributed?
• 3 Inclusive leadership for professional development in context
• 4 Inclusive Leadership for agency and institutional change
• 4.1 A matter of internal politics?