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Core Electives international comparative research, and staff and empower the as co-
leaders. This should allow them
and to learn about relevant studies.
The assignments will support these to harness collective wisdom from
learning objectives, and in addition, multi-stakeholder coalitions and
EDU 520 - Pedagogies for help students to develop specific bring multiple people including
Diversity research skills that are necessary to students and community members
Credit Hours: 3 produce academic literature reviews together to address current and
emerging problems. In addition,
and research papers. This course will
Prerequisite: No pre-requisite explore these questions. First, review educators will learn how to create
This course equips leaders and the ways in which comparative and a culture that supports change.
educators with skills to implement international educational research They will work systematically to
pedagogical strategies fostering has been pursued focusing on transform their schools into learning
diversity, equity, and inclusion. issues of theory and methodology, organisations by building a clear
Participants explore historical second; balancing reading between vision and mission for radical change
context, theoretical frameworks, theoretical and methodological in education enhancing human
ethical considerations, and research- treatments of comparative education. capital though professional develop
based practices. Students learn Also review a number of recent locating effective leadership practices
about professional responsibilities in examples of empirical work. After and scaling the and reaching out
working with families, communities, a general exploration of major to other organizations locally and
and professionals to enhance methodological and theoretical internationally to build effective
student success. Ethical, legislative, issues in the area of Comparative and networks with others and share their
administrative, and organizational International Education, the course best practices.
aspects are covered. will examine literature addressing
two overarching these: Education and
EDU 521 - Ethical Leadership Economic Development and Quality,
and Decision Making in Standards and Accountability.
Educational Contexts EDU 523 - Contemporary Trends
Credit Hours: 3 and Issues in Educational
Prerequisite: No pre-requisite Leadership
This course introduces educational Credit Hours: 3
leaders and experienced teachers to Prerequisite: No pre-requisite
the complexities of ethical leadership
and decision making in educational The course is designed to
contexts. The elements of the course introduce participant educators to
provide opportunities to collectively contemporary issues, trends and
discuss and analyse real-life moral challenges in educational leadership
dilemmas facing educational leaders which can significantly influence
today. Students will learn to identify school transformation. The course
occasions when educational leaders will enhance educators’ knowledge
are faced with ethical dilemmas and and build their strategies and skills
will develop reasoning and reflective to understand these current issues,
skills to make decisions that are predict the ones that might emerge
in alignment with ethical codes in in the future and make informed
practical situations. decisions to address them. It will
assist them to design unconventional
EDU 522 - Comparative and creative long-term solutions to
Education face these issues. The course also
Credit Hours: 3 aims to build educators capacity,
Prerequisite: No pre-requisite confidence, and trust to work as
leaders in a complex system with
The course provides an overview distributed authority and empowered
of the methods, major concepts co-workers. They will learn essential
and current trends in comparative components for becoming advanced
education. It will enable students to leaders who can locate potential
identify strengths and limitations of of latent capabilities of teachers

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