EDEM670-19S2 (D) Semester Two 2019 (Distance)

Leadership as Partnering: Moving Beyond Boundaries

This occurrence is not offered in 2019

30 points

Details:
Start Date: Monday, 15 July 2019
End Date: Sunday, 10 November 2019
Withdrawal Dates
Last Day to withdraw from this course:
  • Without financial penalty (full fee refund): Friday, 26 July 2019
  • Without academic penalty (including no fee refund): Friday, 27 September 2019

Description

Participants will explore national and global policy agendas on partnership in order to understand the role of leadership in creating and extending practice beyond organisational boundaries. Opportunities and challenges for, and consequences of, collaborative practices will be examined through policy, research and scholarly lenses and applied to participants' work contexts. The dynamic between networking and learning will be foregrounded to support the potential of multi-agency learning communities.

Learning Outcomes

On successful completion of this course students will be able to:
1.  Articulate policy agendas around networking, collaboration and partnership
2.  Demonstrate understanding of bi-cultural partnership in Aotearoa New Zealand
3.  Cultivate collective leadership beyond organizational boundaries
4.  Identify the characteristics of effective learning communities
5.  Lead a process to establish networks for collective improvement
6.  Formulate an action plan for sustaining partnership

Prerequisites

Subject to approval from the Head of Department.

Course Coordinator

For further information see School of Educational Studies and Leadership Head of Department

Assessment

Assessment Due Date Percentage 
Four Forum Posts 26 Jul 2019 8%
Essay 29 Sep 2019 46%
Structured Assessment 20 Oct 2019 46%


There are three assessment tasks for this course.  

1. You are required to submit at least four forum postings related to the readings for the course.  These should be around 250 words in length and must specifically identify and engage with one of the readings from each topic of the course. Each topic has a forum for you to contribute your reflections on one reading from the topic resources. You are encouraged to all respond to the posts of others, particularly where they are posing a question regarding their interpretation of a given reading or its value in thinking about the limits and possibilities of partnership and collaboration (8%) (LO 1,2,3,4,5).

The 8% grade will be awarded on the basis of 2% for each of four postings, against a banded assessment (0 = uncompleted, 1 = completed, 2 = completed with critical engagement).

Due Dates: 26 July 2019, 9 August 2019, 23 August 2019, 6 September 2019

2. Essay.  Choose ONE of two topics

Topic A:  An essay that considers a national policy for improvement in education (or other social policy context) at the level of the local. You are required to interrogate the policy through the four topic areas in the course (46%)

OR

Topic B:  An essay that critiques published research on a national policy for improvement in education (or other social policy context). Undertake a critical analysis of the publication to identify the principles of partnering which are reported, or not, and their potential to enhance innovation, learning and the achievement of multi-stakeholder strategies (46%)

Word limit: 3,500 words (not including references and appendices) (LO 1,2,4)
Due Date: Monday 29 September 2019, 11pm via LEARN

3. Leading the Learning Organisation:
Undertake a structured assessment of your organisation’s capacity to act as a learning organisation that can respond to and thrive in the challenges of partnership. Your assessment and critique must identify the limits and possibilities for learning, and the implications for leaders to build capacity to achieve collaborative goals (46%)

Word limit: 3,500 words (not including references and appendices) (LO 3,4,5,6)
Due Date: Monday 20 October 2019, 11pm via LEARN

Indicative Fees

Domestic fee $1,847.00

* All fees are inclusive of NZ GST or any equivalent overseas tax, and do not include any programme level discount or additional course-related expenses.

For further information see School of Educational Studies and Leadership .

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