Leading Educational Change and Improvement

Entry requirements

2:2 undergraduate degree (or equivalent) in a related subject, along with experience of working in an educational setting.

Months of entry

October

Course content

This short course will allow you to develop an understanding of educational change and improvement from a research and practical perspective, and look at how that can impact teaching and learning outcomes. Suitable for teachers, researchers and administrators, you will be comparing evaluating and critiquing international reform efforts and developing knowledge about the dynamics of leading improvement as a strategy for change.

The course may also be used as a bridge course towards applying for the MA Educational Leadership and Management.

Skills from this course

• Understand competing paradigms and methodologies in educational research
• Ability to examine the relationship between quantitative and qualitative research methods
• Identify theoretical and methodological grounds on which education research is based
• Analyse the relationship between research questions, method and methodology
• Assess the efficiency and effectiveness of educational research from different perspectives and methodologies
• Gain familiarity with different research practices and conduct ‘micro’ studies in the practice of educational research