The learning strategies will require participants to commit 150 learning hours of which 15 hours will consist of contact time. Sessions will consist of lectures, seminars, workshops and tutorials, (15 hrs). These will provide participants with a broad theoretical overview and the conceptual frameworks which underpin leadership and management in education and training. They will also provide the opportunity to develop critical thinking skills to apply the underpinning theories to an examination of their own role in one organisation, in preparation for the assignment.

A further 135 hours of independent study will require participants to take responsibility for relating the issues addressed in this module to their personal experience, for reading and thinking about leadership and management in education and training and relating all this to their own working context. This will form the basis of the assignment. Participants are also required to organise and review their session notes and undertake preparatory reading and research on assigned materials in order to participate in, and lead, discussions individually and as part of a group.

The module will examine key theoretical and policy perspectives on organisation, leadership and management issues within the lifelong learning sector in the UK. Topics studied will include understanding the term organisational behaviour, investigating organisational structure in educational settings, developing an awareness of possible future developments in educational leadership and management and an understanding of government influence on educational organisation, leadership and management. The module will prepare participants for further study and professional action by helping them identify how the trend towards privatisation of services has affected lifelong learning settings, reflect on what makes a successful educational setting and debate government demands on education.

DURRANT, J. AND HOLDEN, G. (2005) Teachers Leading Change: Doing Research for School Improvement, London, Sage
BUSH, A. (2003) Theories of Educational Leadership and Management London, Sage
FIELD, K. Hoult, E. and HUGHES, S. (2006) Improve your Leadership Skills, London, Optimus
Frost, D and Durrant, J (forthcoming) `Supporting Teachers' Leadership: What Can Principals Do? A teacher perspective from research, in J.Chrispeels and K. Martin (eds) Learning to Lead Together: The Promise and Challenge of Principals Sharing Leadership, Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications
MacBeath, J and Sugimini, H with Sutherland, G and Nishimura, M (eds) (2003) Self-evaluation in the Global Classroom, London:RoutledgeFalmer
Stoll, L, Fink, D and Earl, L (2003) It's About Learning and It's About Time, London: RoutledgeFalmer

University teaching sessions
Tutorials
University library
Materials and links on BA Education (Lifelong Learning) Blackboard

An assignment length 2500 words weighted at 100% - Tests learning outcomes 1, 2 and 3.

This will take the form of a review of literature on leadership and management in education and training linked to a case study of leadership and management in one organisation in the lifelong learning sector.