Course ME2301 · Year II · Autumn 2026-2027

Strategic educational management

Compulsory course in Educational management, taught by Grigore-Dan Iordachescu.

Overview

Lecturer
Grigore-Dan Iordachescu
Seminar tutor
Grigore-Dan Iordachescu
Type of course
Compulsory
Language of instruction
Romanian
Erasmus language
English
Domain
Education Sciences - Masters
Field of study
Educational management
Form of education
Full-time
Form of instruction
Lecture
Credit awarded by
Grade
Teaching methods
Lecture, Examples, Conversation, Exercise, Algorithmization, Academic controversy
Entry requirements
General management. Conceptual and methodological foundamentals

Aims

To know and apply the analysis and design techniques in strategic educational management: resource-needs analysis, context analysis, SWOT analysis, PEST analysis, task analysis, discrepancy analysis, cost analysis.

To know and promote the attributes of strategic thinking and other models of thinking compatible with strategic management

To elaborate an institutional strategic plan for a given school institution

Course contents

1. Fundamental concepts
1.1. Strategy, strategic system, strategic management.
1.2. Strategic thinking - decisive factor of strategic management:
2. Analysis and design techniques in strategic educational management
2.1. Education needs analysis
2.2. Analysis and administration of educational resources
2.3. Contextual analysis techniques:the SWOT analysis
2.4. Cost and sustainability analysis of the strategy.
3. Pedagogical design and strategic planning
3.1. Pedagogical design - a component of strategic planning:
3.2. Institutional strategic planning

Learning outcomes

- To Make a paper / presentation on one of the topics or sub-topics in the subjects of the discipline.
- Conduct a case study (“Ideal School”) of a school institution based on the resource-needs analysis of that institution.
 

Assessment

Develop a portfolio of tools and applications in accordance with the specified requirements as outcomes.

Recommended reading

Learning, Teaching and Assessing in Higher Education: Developing Reflective Practice
Anne Campbell & Lin Norton
Learning Matters, London, 2010 · 5-80
Leadership and Strategic Management in Education
Tony Bush & Marianne Coleman
SAGE Publications Ltd, London, 2000 · 5-120
Strategic Management of Human Capital in Education: Improving Instructional Practice and Student Learning in Schools
Allan R. Odden
Routledge, New York, 2011 · 5-100