Educational Leadership
Effective leadership in educational settings is critical in order to grow and sustain successful organisations. Enhance your career prospects with a specialised leadership programme that challenges you personally and professionally.
Make a difference to the quality of education and create opportunities for your future leadership and the leadership of others in education. Build enhanced understandings, and discover authentic leadership practices, to improve educational outcomes in your school, organisation or community setting.
Whether you are an aspiring leader looking to step into a leadership role, have a puzzle of practice that you want to explore, or you are an experienced leader seeking to advance your current skills and knowledge, we have papers to cater for your needs and engaging staff who can support you in this endeavour. The leadership papers are challenging, innovative and enlightening. They incorporate global best-practice and emerging trends and develop the knowledge, skills and mindsets required for high performance leadership in educational settings.
- Engage in high quality teaching and research to support the personal and professional aspects of your leadership formation and practice
- Examine leadership systems and practices to support change and innovation in organisational contexts
- Inquire into personal leadership practices
- Understand, critique and contribute to the educational research that is shaping New Zealand's educational policy and practice
- Locate leadership work in a framework of social justice and seek to make a difference for high-needs students
- Develop the skills, knowledge and dispositions to be an effective educational leader
- Enhance leadership networks by contributing to a vibrant professional learning community
- Flexible delivery (NET/Block course)
As a graduate of this programme you will enhance your leadership capabilities and knowledge, building a firm foundation for your leadership practice, growing the skills and dispositions to lead in and beyond your organisation.
Key information
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Papers
Available Educational Leadership papers
500 Level
| Code | Paper Title | Points | Occurrence / Location |
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| EDLED501 | Educational Leadership: Concepts, Theory and Practice | 30.0 | 23A (Hamilton) & 23A (Online) |
| Leading in educational contexts can be a challenging and complex undertaking. This paper introduces students to foundational theoretical and practical concepts of educational leadership in Aotearoa New Zealand and internationally. Students are supported to critically examine their own leadership beliefs and experiences and explore ... | |||
| EDLED502 | Educational Leadership: Organisational Change and Development | 30.0 | 23B (Hamilton) & 23B (Online) |
| This paper explores theories and practices of organisational development, culture and change in educational settings. The nature and characteristics of effective professional communities and the central role of leaders in educational improvement and innovation are key areas of investigation. Participants will engage with and critiq... | |||
| EDLED503 | Educational Leadership: Coaching and Mentoring | 30.0 | 23A (Block) & 23B (Block - Tauranga) |
| This paper critically examines theories and models of continuing leadership development through mentoring and coaching. It focuses on the importance of critical reflection on practice, the change process through adult learning theory, and the leadership capacity building that is so important in educational settings. Participants wi... | |||
| EDLED504 | Educational Leadership: Inquiry in Organisations and Communities | 30.0 | 23B (Block) |
| This paper critically examines the contextual and relational nature of educational leadership in learning organisations and communities. Through examining and employing fundamental principles of Appreciative Inquiry (AI) - a strength-based approach to purposeful organisational change, participants will interrogate their leadership ... | |||
| EDLED505 | Educational Leadership: Leading for Social Change | 30.0 | 23A (Online) |
| This paper draws on research and theory from New Zealand and global contexts to critically examine leadership practices related to issues of social justice in education. This paper provides opportunities to engage in current debates related to equity, access, fairness, agency and success in education and offers a framework for rais... | |||
| EDLED507 | Educational Leadership: Contemporary Issues and Perspectives | 30.0 | 23B (Block) |
| With the rapidly changing nature of the New Zealand educational landscape, opportunities for educational leaders to critically examine current issues of importance and interest in a timely manner are essential. As such, the topic of this paper is co-constructed within the professional learning community of educational leaders in or... | |||
| EDLED510 | Capstone: Application to Professional Practice | 15.0 | 23X (Block) |
| In this capstone paper, students synthesise, reflect on, and apply the conceptual and practical knowledge gained throughout the MEdM degree to a significant contemporary and/or anticipated future issue of practice in their current educational setting. | |||
| EDUCA500 | Culturally Responsive Methodologies incorporating kaupapa Māori and Critical Theories | 30.0 | 23X (Block - Tauranga) |
| Culturally Responsive Methodologies utilise kaupapa Maori and critical theoretical frameworks to develop contexts within which the researched community can define the terms for engaging, relating and co-creating new knowledge. | |||
| EDUCA557 | Becoming a researcher: theory, ethics and methods | 30.0 | 23A (Online), 23B (Online) & 23H (Block) |
| This paper introduces students to the major educational research paradigms, methodologies appropriate to collecting data in schools (including interviews, observations, surveys, case studies), action research, literature reviews, critiquing research, and report writing. It includes consideration of ethical issues in research. | |||
| EDUCA590 | Directed Study | 30.0 | 23I (Hamilton) & 23I (Online) |
| Students have the opportunity to pursue a topic of their own interest under the guidance of academic staff. | |||
| EDUCA592 | Dissertation | 60.0 | 23X (Hamilton), 23X (Online) & 23X (Tauranga) |
| A report on the findings of a theoretical or empirical investigation. | |||
| EDUCA593 | Education Thesis | 90.0 | 23X (Hamilton), 23X (Online) & 23X (Tauranga) |
| An externally examined piece of written work that reports on the findings of supervised research. | |||
| MAOED500 | Rangahau Kaupapa Māori - Kaupapa Māori Research | 30.0 | 23X (Hamilton) |
| This paper seeks to explore Kaupapa Maori research theory and methodologies, developing more informed and culturally located and responsive research practice, with a particular focus on researching in Maori educational contexts. | |||
| MAOED523 | Māori Educational Policies: Their Development and Some Strategic Responses | 30.0 | 23X (Block - Tauranga) |
| This paper examines the historical and contemporary politics and practices that have contributed to the current education disparities that affect Maori people in particular, but also the wider fabric of New Zealand society. The paper then considers historical and contemporary policies developed to address these disparities and a nu... | |||
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The Centre for Educational Leadership Research supports the development of high quality research, teaching and learning encounters.
The Centre for Educational Leadership Research supports the development of high quality research, teaching and learning encounters. As a professional network and hub for leadership inquiry, Communities of Learning, professional learning opportunities and regular research meetings – the work of the Centre explores leadership in its many forms and examines possibilities for supporting educational leaders across a range of contexts in the community. For more information, visit: https://calendar.waikato.ac.nz/research-institutes-centres-groups-and-units/centre-for-educational-leadership-research
Contacts
Te Kura Toi Tangata School of Education
Phone: 0800 WAIKATO (924 528)
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