EDUC44060 Managing the Organisation

Academic Year 2022/2023

This module builds on the learning outcomes of the previous module offered by UCD in this jointly accredited PDEL programme (with UL and University of Galway) in particular. It revisits foundational work that identifies the language and logics of accountability and responsibility, while adding to the tools for thinking, more recent work on deliberative communication, and deliberative leadership, recognising the significance of ‘webs of commitment’ and the necessity for forging ‘legitimate compromises’ as a means of building community and as a means of building capacities for resolving disagreement in respectful and sustained deliberative dialogue.

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Curricular information is subject to change

Learning Outcomes:

Having competed this module, participants will be enabled to:

• Articulate in a critically constructive manner, their understanding and reconstruction of the tensions between accountability and professional responsibility, and through this ‘legitimate compromise’ identify positive steps towards building a collaborative culture and community, while recognising constraints of time and structural barriers to same
• Describe in a constructive and positive manner the strengths and limitations of deliberative leadership, built on the principles of deliberative communication, for cultivating the possibilities for negotiated legitimate compromises as a generative and sustainable means of fostering a positive working environment, as well as building leadership capacities and sustainable communities, while simultaneously enhancing the status of the teaching profession
• Increase understanding of leadership possibilities, and capacities through increased engagement with the external legal and policy environment, while simultaneously forging positive working relationships with members of the school community, built on the values identified in the code of conduct, recognising distinct ‘webs of commitment’ while mindful of institutional missions and values and the professional responsibility, individual and collective, to cultivate an environment where all can flourish

Indicative Module Content:

The following topics are indicative of the module content. They include:

• Leading and managing the school & Critical incidents (Module overview & Assignment)
• Distributed leadership in a post pandemic era
• Deliberative leadership: What's distinctive about it?
• Deliberative leadership: Negotiating legitimate compromise
• The personal and the professional in leadership in the contemporary era
School culture: What we stand for?
• Risk and trust
• Inclusion: DEIS and beyond …
• Governance and the school community
• Leading CPD within the school community

Student Effort Hours: 
Student Effort Type Hours
Lectures

30
Autonomous Student Learning

195
Total

225
Approaches to Teaching and Learning:
Pedagogy of the module provides a judicious mix of assigned readings, short video lectures and power point presentations, coupled with interactive online and face to face sessions combining small group discussions with more general fora as a means of getting to grips with concepts and empirical evidence while also enabling learners to being their own professional situated learning to bear and subject to critical scrutiny and reappraisal in light of the modules key concepts, particularly deliberative leadership. 
Requirements, Exclusions and Recommendations

Not applicable to this module.


Module Requisites and Incompatibles
Not applicable to this module.
 
Assessment Strategy  
Description Timing Open Book Exam Component Scale Must Pass Component % of Final Grade
Assignment: This will be an end of module assignment, extending to 5,000 words, while appropriate de tails will be provided at the commencement of the module Unspecified n/a Graded No

100

Carry forward of passed components
No
 
Resit In Terminal Exam
Spring No
Please see Student Jargon Buster for more information about remediation types and timing. 
Feedback Strategy/Strategies

• Feedback individually to students, post-assessment

How will my Feedback be Delivered?

Feedback will be provided by means of a feedback sheet that will also provide comment on the strengths of the work and how it might be improved for future assignments