EDF5662 Leading local, rural and regional learning and participation

This unit supports educators and leaders to work collaboratively with other professionals and community-based personnel to enhance learning and wellbeing in local, rural and regional contexts. It examines notions of place including 'rurality', at both the local and global level as it relates to education policy development, reform and community resourcing. It considers the work of leadership to foster participation in local, rural and regional community engagement renewal and development. Students apply ideas around leadership to identify the opportunities and challenges of living and working in local, rural and regional contexts and strategies. Strategies for leading ways forward for communities to participate positively in their own renewal are developed through work on a particular case. The unit is well suited to teachers, principals, community and other educational workers interested in learning about leading and participating in community renewal.