Understanding Leadership
PostgraduateTAS-EDP7152025
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- Study method
- 100% online
- Assessments
- 100% online
- Enrol by
- 16 Feb 2025
- Entry requirements
- Part of a degree
- Duration
- 14 weeks
- Price from
- $2,440
- Upfront cost
- $0
- Loan available
- HECS-HELP and FEE-HELP available
Understanding Leadership
About this subject
Upon completion of this subject, the student should be able to:
- Demonstrate an understanding of the theories, styles and practices of leadership.
- Critically reflect on the nature of leadership and its practice within educational and other organisational contexts.
- Demonstrate your ability to use the literature to support the arguments that you make.
- Apply new knowledge and understandings in a critically analytical way to practice.
- Introduction to Understanding Leadership
- Module 1: Approaches
- Trait approach; Skills approach; Behavioural approach; Situational approach
- Module 2: Theories of Leadership
- Path goal
- Leader member exchange
- Transformational; Authentic; Servant; Adaptive
- Review
- Module 3: Contemporary Leadership Issues and Practices
- Leadership and power
- Psychodynamic approach
- Team leadership
- Gender and leadership
- Module 4: Leadership - a Personal Journey
- Leadership identity journey
- Leadership and ethics
- Review
Expectations of leaders in educational and other settings can change significantly over the course of a career. In addition to understanding individual issues of changing professional identity, self-preparation, and role transition, leaders are required to engage with heightened responsibilities when government and institutional reforms of structure, culture and practice entail high stakes accountability through outcome-focused performance targeting. By the end of this subject, you will have developed advanced knowledge and skills in the connection between individual and systemic change in leadership practice through study of modules on: approaches to leadership, theories and styles of leadership, the practice of leadership; and the social dimension of leadership in educational and related work contexts. Part of the aims this subject is to enable you to have a better understanding of yourself as a leader and how to lead others.
- Comparative Essay (40%)
- Reflective Case Study (50%)
- Reflection (10%)
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Entry requirements
Part of a degree
To enrol in this subject you must be accepted into one of the following degrees:
Elective
- TAS-EDN-GCE-2025 - Graduate Certificate in Education
Additional requirements
- Other requirements - Teaching arrangements: Weekly (online) lectures or equivalent (1 hour) and participation in discussion boards (1 hour), reading the textbook and other set readings (5 hours) and attending Zoom sessions (1.5 hours once per fortnight).
Study load
- 0.125 EFTSL
- This is in the range of 10 to 12 hours of study each week.
Equivalent full time study load (EFTSL) is one way to calculate your study load. One (1.0) EFTSL is equivalent to a full-time study load for one year.
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Related degrees
Once you’ve completed this subject it can be credited towards one of the following courses
Graduate Certificate in Education
PostgraduateTAS-EDN-GCE