The Assignment
• Critique of Policy in area of Leadership and Management: Paper to be presented orally (10 minutes plus 5 minutes Question & Answer) with a supporting portfolio. (5000 words equivalent) (100% weighting).
The details
• Educational Leaders have the challenging task of mediating and filtering policy from government into their organisations in a thoughtful way.
• As we will see, this process can impact on organisations and individuals in a range of ways. Some themes of impact include: purpose, Pedagogy, provision and personnel.
• All of this links to the role of educational leaders which need to be central to your presentation.
• Your task is to choose one specific policy and critique it with reference to these themes of impact and the broader role of educational leaders.Resources of interest (all on BBL)
• Hall (1993)Policy Paradigms, Social Learning, and the State: The Case of Economic Policy making in Britain.
• Lewis (2018) Policy and the image of the child: a critical analysis of drivers and levers in English early years curriculum policy.
• Wright (2011) Between ‘Bastard’ and ‘Wicked’ leadership? School leadership and the emerging policies of the UK Coalition Government.