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 planningLearning 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