management

1. Course : EDUCATIONAL LEADERSHIP AND MANAGEMENT
Code : ESEM5513
TUTOR : DR SAID AMBOTANG
The rationale to include this course in the MEd (ELMG) is the course will provide knowledge and skills in Educational
Leadership and Management within the school system that will help learners understand their career paths.
Contents
1. Introduction to Educational Leadership & Management and Paradigms in Leadership
2. Organizational Theory and Strategic Management. The relevance of Theory to Good Practice. Models of
Educational Management
3. School as a Bureaucratic Organization. Concept of Bureaucratic Organization. Scientific Management and The
Schools
4. School as Sociopolitical System. Informal Groups in Organizations. The social system. Institutional Theory and
Reform.
5. Open System Theory and Schools. Concept of the System. Open System Theory. Cycle of Events
6. Education Change. Purpose of Strategic Change. Restructuring Education and Target of Change. The
Implementation of Strategic Change
7. Strategic and Development Planning in Education. Development Planning, Improvement, effectiveness and
change. Approaches towards achieving student’s integration
8. Leadership and Management. Transformational and Transactional Leadership. Strategic Leadership. Contingency
Theory of Leadership
9. Organizational Leadership. Leadership and moral, ethics, autonomy, roles, and nature of leadership and strategies
to improve leadership.
10. Decision Making in Schools. Classical, Administrative, Satisficing, Incremental, Mixed-Scanning, Garbage Can
models, and Janis-Mann Conflict Theory.
11. Improving leadership in schools, educating future leaders, selecting new administrators, transforming schools and
strengthening their cultures, developing teamwork. Leadership Instrument Analysis
12. Motivation and Management. Content and Process Theories of Motivation.
13. Organizational Motivation. S-M-C-R Communication Model. Communication Analysis.
14. Conflict and Stress in Education and Creativity in Management.
Course Evaluation
Types Percentage
Final Examination (Subjective Ouestions) 50%
Group Field Work
40%
Forum
10%
TOTAL
100%
Main references supporting the course
Cunningham, William G. & Corderio, Paula A. (2008) Educational Leadership: A Bridge to Improved Practice. New
York:Allyn & Bacon, Inc
Hanson, E. Ark. (2003) Educational Administration and Organizational Behavior (5th Edition) Boston:Pearson Education Inc.
Additional references supporting the course
1. Cunningham, William G. & Cordeiro, Paula A. (2002) Educational Leadership: A Problem-Based Approach. New
York:Pearson Education
2. Durbin, Andrew J. (2001) Leadership: Research Findings, Practice and Skills. New York:Houghton Mifflin Company
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