Educational Leadership

The course participants are given the tools to extend and enlarge their knowledge and understanding of the leadership role and its consequences for how leadership can be exercised. The course further presents various approaches to leadership, its dimensions and its conditions. The ability to analyse acts of leadership and their consequences, as well as the ability to convert this knowledge into practical actions, is integral to the course content.

The covers comprises the following components:

1. Leadership theories relevant to education in the non-profit sector.
2. The role of the principal as manager, leader, and supervisor.
3. Organising learning.

The course is taught in accordance with the principles of experience-based and problem-based learning. Course participants are therefore expected to work actively to problematise the issues raised, to address their own experiences, and to relate these to various theories and models.

The teaching takes the form of field studies, case studies, practical exercises, participation in group supervision sessions/peer supervision, lectures, and independent reading.

Progressive specialisation: A1N (has only first‐cycle course/s as entry requirements)

Education level: Master's level

Admission requirements: An undergraduate degree comprising at least 120 ECTS credits or equivalent.

Selection: Selection is usually based on your grade point average from upper secondary school or the number of credit points from previous university studies, or both.