School: Education

This unit information may be updated and amended immediately prior to semester. To ensure you have the correct outline, please check it again at the beginning of semester.

Your unit may be subject to government or third party COVID-19 vaccination requirements. Please consider this before enrolling in this unit, and speak with the unit coordinator if this raises any concerns.

  • Unit Title

    Leading in Challenging Contexts
  • Unit Code

    EPA6155
  • Year

    2022
  • Enrolment Period

    1
  • Version

    2
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
    Online
  • Unit Coordinator

    Dr Michelle Lorraine STRIEPE

Description

This unit focuses on understanding how educational leadership is enacted under challenging circumstances. In this unit students will explore and evaluate the ideas of challenging circumstances, context and culture as it applies to educational organisations. Additionally, students will acquire an understanding of the body of work on leading under challenging circumstances. Furthermore, students will investigate, analyse and synthesise the theory and empirical research on this topic. Students will apply their knowledge in an investigation of an organisation facing challenging circumstances and develop a plan which describes how leadership could be used to manage or deal with the organisation's particular circumstances.

Equivalent Rule

Unit was previously coded EPA4155, EPA5155

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Analyse complex problems to generate creative solutions for leading under challenging circumstances.
  2. Apply knowledge and skills in manner that demonstrates autonomy and expert judgement as a learner and practitioner.
  3. Critically analyse and apply educational leadership theories and related key concepts to a range of educational organisations facing challenging circumstances.
  4. Demonstrate advanced and integrated understanding of the body of knowledge on leading under challenging circumstances.

Unit Content

  1. Module One: Understanding, analysing and evaluating key concepts Explore the concepts of context, culture, and challenging circumstances; Examine research on how context and culture influences leading educational organisations.
  2. Module Two: Examining challenging circumstances Research the broad range of challenging circumstances impact on educational organisations; Reflect on and apply the knowledge of context and culture to the notion of challenging circumstances.
  3. Module Three: Leading under challenging circumstances Critically analyse and reflect on specific models, theories and approaches related to leading under challenging circumstances.

Additional Learning Experience Information

Lectures, workshops and online support.

Assessment

GS1 GRADING SCHEMA 1 Used for standard coursework units

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant School Progression Panel.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescriptionValue
ReportInvestigation into challenging circumstances 50%
ReportPlan for leading under challenging circumstances50%
ONLINE
TypeDescriptionValue
ReportInvestigation of challenging circumstances50%
ReportPlan for leading under challenging circumstances50%

Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005)

For the purposes of considering a request for Reasonable Adjustments under the Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005), inherent requirements for this subject are articulated in the Unit Description, Learning Outcomes and Assessment Requirements of this entry. The University is dedicated to provide support to those with special requirements. Further details on the support for students with disabilities or medical conditions can be found at the Access and Inclusion website.

Academic Integrity

Integrity is a core value at Edith Cowan University, and it is expected that ECU students complete their assessment tasks honestly and with acknowledgement of other people's work. This means that assessment tasks must be completed individually (unless it is an authorised group assessment task) and any sources used must be referenced.

Breaches of academic integrity can include:

Plagiarism

Copying the words, ideas or creative works of other people, without referencing in accordance with stated University requirements. Students need to seek approval from the Unit Coordinator within the first week of study if they intend to use some of their previous work in an assessment task (self-plagiarism).

Unauthorised collaboration (collusion)

Working with other students and submitting the same or substantially similar work or portions of work when an individual submission was required. This includes students knowingly providing others with copies of their own work to use in the same or similar assessment task(s).

Contract cheating

Organising a friend, a family member, another student or an external person or organisation (e.g. through an online website) to complete or substantially edit or refine part or all of an assessment task(s) on their behalf.

Cheating in an exam

Using or having access to unauthorised materials in an exam or test.

Serious outcomes may be imposed if a student is found to have committed one of these breaches, up to and including expulsion from the University for repeated or serious acts.

ECU's policies and more information about academic integrity can be found on the student academic integrity website.

All commencing ECU students are required to complete the Academic Integrity Module.

Assessment Extension

In some circumstances, Students may apply to their Unit Coordinator to extend the due date of their Assessment Task(s) in accordance with ECU's Assessment, Examination and Moderation Procedures - for more information visit https://askus2.ecu.edu.au/s/article/000001386.

Special Consideration

Students may apply for Special Consideration in respect of a final unit grade, where their achievement was affected by Exceptional Circumstances as set out in the Assessment, Examination and Moderation Procedures - for more information visit https://askus2.ecu.edu.au/s/article/000003318.

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School: Education

This unit information may be updated and amended immediately prior to semester. To ensure you have the correct outline, please check it again at the beginning of semester.

Your unit may be subject to government or third party COVID-19 vaccination requirements. Please consider this before enrolling in this unit, and speak with the unit coordinator if this raises any concerns.

  • Unit Title

    Leading in Challenging Contexts
  • Unit Code

    EPA6155
  • Year

    2022
  • Enrolment Period

    2
  • Version

    2
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
    Online
  • Unit Coordinator

    Dr Michelle Lorraine STRIEPE

Description

This unit focuses on understanding how educational leadership is enacted under challenging circumstances. In this unit students will explore and evaluate the ideas of challenging circumstances, context and culture as it applies to educational organisations. Additionally, students will acquire an understanding of the body of work on leading under challenging circumstances. Furthermore, students will investigate, analyse and synthesise the theory and empirical research on this topic. Students will apply their knowledge in an investigation of an organisation facing challenging circumstances and develop a plan which describes how leadership could be used to manage or deal with the organisation's particular circumstances.

Equivalent Rule

Unit was previously coded EPA4155, EPA5155

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Analyse complex problems to generate creative solutions for leading under challenging circumstances.
  2. Apply knowledge and skills in manner that demonstrates autonomy and expert judgement as a learner and practitioner.
  3. Critically analyse and apply educational leadership theories and related key concepts to a range of educational organisations facing challenging circumstances.
  4. Demonstrate advanced and integrated understanding of the body of knowledge on leading under challenging circumstances.

Unit Content

  1. Module One: Understanding, analysing and evaluating key concepts Explore the concepts of context, culture, and challenging circumstances; Examine research on how context and culture influences leading educational organisations.
  2. Module Two: Examining challenging circumstances Research the broad range of challenging circumstances impact on educational organisations; Reflect on and apply the knowledge of context and culture to the notion of challenging circumstances.
  3. Module Three: Leading under challenging circumstances Critically analyse and reflect on specific models, theories and approaches related to leading under challenging circumstances.

Additional Learning Experience Information

Lectures, workshops and online support.

Assessment

GS1 GRADING SCHEMA 1 Used for standard coursework units

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant School Progression Panel.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescriptionValue
ReportInvestigation into challenging circumstances 50%
ReportPlan for leading under challenging circumstances50%
ONLINE
TypeDescriptionValue
ReportInvestigation of challenging circumstances50%
ReportPlan for leading under challenging circumstances50%

Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005)

For the purposes of considering a request for Reasonable Adjustments under the Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005), inherent requirements for this subject are articulated in the Unit Description, Learning Outcomes and Assessment Requirements of this entry. The University is dedicated to provide support to those with special requirements. Further details on the support for students with disabilities or medical conditions can be found at the Access and Inclusion website.

Academic Integrity

Integrity is a core value at Edith Cowan University, and it is expected that ECU students complete their assessment tasks honestly and with acknowledgement of other people's work. This means that assessment tasks must be completed individually (unless it is an authorised group assessment task) and any sources used must be referenced.

Breaches of academic integrity can include:

Plagiarism

Copying the words, ideas or creative works of other people, without referencing in accordance with stated University requirements. Students need to seek approval from the Unit Coordinator within the first week of study if they intend to use some of their previous work in an assessment task (self-plagiarism).

Unauthorised collaboration (collusion)

Working with other students and submitting the same or substantially similar work or portions of work when an individual submission was required. This includes students knowingly providing others with copies of their own work to use in the same or similar assessment task(s).

Contract cheating

Organising a friend, a family member, another student or an external person or organisation (e.g. through an online website) to complete or substantially edit or refine part or all of an assessment task(s) on their behalf.

Cheating in an exam

Using or having access to unauthorised materials in an exam or test.

Serious outcomes may be imposed if a student is found to have committed one of these breaches, up to and including expulsion from the University for repeated or serious acts.

ECU's policies and more information about academic integrity can be found on the student academic integrity website.

All commencing ECU students are required to complete the Academic Integrity Module.

Assessment Extension

In some circumstances, Students may apply to their Unit Coordinator to extend the due date of their Assessment Task(s) in accordance with ECU's Assessment, Examination and Moderation Procedures - for more information visit https://askus2.ecu.edu.au/s/article/000001386.

Special Consideration

Students may apply for Special Consideration in respect of a final unit grade, where their achievement was affected by Exceptional Circumstances as set out in the Assessment, Examination and Moderation Procedures - for more information visit https://askus2.ecu.edu.au/s/article/000003318.

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