Educational leadership: Policy and advocacy

This unit focuses on educational leadership, management and administration as defined in policy and enacted in practice. It will examine the concept of leadership in the development and leading of high-quality educational programs for all children. This will include researching and building on existing knowledge of leadership within the early childhood policy context. This will include engagement with policy making processes within local and global contexts. Specific attention is given to the conceptualisation of policy actors, debates and newly emerging discourses in policy documents of children and childhoods within an ethical global context. You will develop an understanding of how policies shape and influence the lives of children and families and the role of leadership in this process. The role of advocacy for children, families and the profession as leadership work will be prioritised allowing you to draw together your learning across the course into an advocacy project.