Advanced Issues in Educational Administration:policies and practices

Recommended Prerequisites

NA

 

Teaching Methods

Lecture method associated with the use of pedagogical practices that promote independent work of students and their active participation in the learning process, such as presentation and discussion of texts and students' papers

Learning Outcomes

This course aims to deepen the knowledge and reflection on central issues within the administration and management of educational organizations. It analyzes the new forms and processes of school governance, highlighting the different rationalities and agendas in educational administration and management. Bearing in mind the transnational, national and local dynamics, it intends to reflect on the complexity of the processes of governance, management and school leadership, logics and strategies of action and their actors and instruments.

Learning outcomes:

To critically analyse changes in the process of governance of schools in Portugal

To understand the different rationalities and ideologies of educational administration

Reflect critically on different logics and action strategies and their relationship with organizational contexts, their actors and instruments.

To know research conducted on the processes of school management and leadership in the Portuguese context.

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

New public management as a global education policy and new forms of governance of school organizations.

Tensions, challenges and contemporary dilemmas in school management and leadership. Between the democratic mandate and the promotion of equality and the managerial and performativity logics

School leadership and the challenges of equity, inclusion and diversity.

Evaluation and management of quality in education

Accountability, Big data and digital technologies in school management and leadership

Head Lecturer(s)

Ana Maria Magalhães Teixeira Seixas

Assessment Methods

Assessment method
Synthesis work: 30.0%
individual oral presentation and written version of a short paper: 70.0%

Bibliography

Allan J, Harwood V & Jorgensen C(ed)(2021)W Y E 2020 Schooling, Governance and Inequalities Routledge

Barreira C, Bidarra M & Vaz-Rebelo M(Org)(2016) Estudos sobre avaliação externa de escolas Porto Ed

Connolly M, Eddy-Spicer, James D& Kruse S(ed)(2019) The Sage Handbook of school organization Sage

Grek S, Maroy C & Verger A(ed)(2021) WYE2021 Accountability and Datafication in the Governance of Education Routledge

Kyriakides, L, Creemers, B, Panayiotou, A & Charalambous, E (2022)Quality and Equity. Routledge

Lima L, Sá, V& Torres L(org)(2020) Diretores Escolares em Ação FML

Pacheco J, Morgado J& Sousa, J (2020) Avaliação institucional e inspeção Porto Ed

Sá V& Lima L (org)(2017) O governo das escolas FML

Torres L & Palhares J(org)(2017) A excelência académica na escola pública portuguesa FML

Townsend T (ed)(2019) Instructional Leadership and leadership for learning in schools Palgrave

Wyatt-Smith C, Lingard B & Heck, E(ed)(2021) Digital Disruption in Teaching and Testing Routledge