ESE-5442: Transformative Teaching and Leadership

This course explores fundamental questions in education while practically and experientially embedding this inquiry in concrete teaching-learning situations and school organizational contexts. It views teachers and administrators not as passive inheritors and recipients of an institutional ethos but rather as agents of systemic change. It provides educators with opportunities to review and reflect upon their practices and to envision new and coherent alternatives. The course has two complimentary components: (1) The course explores the philosophy, aims, scope and culture of education and schooling and current practical challenges to educators and students. Dialogue, as a meaning-making activity, is used to provide tools for reflective enquiry. Both the course content and its process develop shared understandings about attention, learning, goodness, intelligence, excellence, social justice, leadership, and transformation, equipping each stake holder with experiences and understandings to act creatively in developing a cooperative learning community. (2) The course content addresses educational practices and their application in various settings including a focus on qualitative research. Participants engage in teaching and leadership as a self-reflective learning process with hands-on/ minds-on experiences to develop the craft of teaching and educational leadership. The course explores the following questions: What is the organizational culture of a school? Can it be otherwise? What is educational leadership? What is teaching and learning? What is the role of the teacher? What is the relationship between the teacher, the student and the subject matter? What are the daily practical concerns of teachers and educational administrators and how can they be addressed? What brings about change and transformation in teachinglearning environments and organizational cultures as a whole?
Min. Credits: 3.0
Credit Basis: Semester credit
Location(s): Antioch Univ New England
Method(s): Online Meeting (synchronous),Online (asynchronous)
Course Type Environmental Studies

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