Advocacy in Leadership and Management in Early Childhood Education

    Unit code: ECE3002 | Study level: Undergraduate
    Credit points
    12
    (Generally, 1 credit = 10 hours of classes and independent study.)
    Location
    Footscray Nicholson
    Online Real Time
    Online Self-Paced
    St Albans
    Prerequisites
    N/A
    Overview
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    Overview

    This unit prepares pre-service teachers to lead and manage in early childhood settings. Through the frame of advocacy and activism, pre-service teachers will develop knowledge and skills to work ethically with staff, families and communities within the operational and compliance systems in early childhood settings.

    Learning Outcomes

    On successful completion of this unit, students will be able to:

    1. Justify how leadership and administrative practices can contribute to building relationships and generating a positive early childhood environment;
    2. Reflect upon and debate the image of the teacher as leader and how teachers can utilise advocacy and activism to influence the role and actions of administration;
    3. Formulate a vision to frame administrative work in order to build and support community and manage and oversee an early childhood site.

    Assessment

    For Melbourne campuses

    Assessment type: Assignment
    |
    Grade: 30%
    Articulate your current philosophy of leadership, underpinned by relationships with peers, families and communities.
    Assessment type: Report
    |
    Grade: 40%
    Paper that articulates leadership of an early childhood setting through an activist frame.
    Assessment type: Presentation
    |
    Grade: 30%
    Video that discusses how the image of the teacher influences the role and actions of administration.

    Required reading

    Links to the required texts will be available in VU Collaborate.

    As part of a course

    This unit is studied as part of the following course(s):

    Bachelor of Early Childhood Education
    EBEC | Bachelor degree | Duration: 3 years
    Bachelor of Early Childhood Education and Leadership
    EBCL | Bachelor degree | Duration: 4 years
    Bachelor of Early Childhood Teaching
    EBEI | Bachelor degree | Duration: 3 years

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