Leading Educational Change and Improvement PGA

University of Warwick

Develop your understanding of leading educational change and improvement on this short course. Warwick's Education Studies offers this PGA as a bridge to further education, you will develop an understanding of education change through research and practical perspectives. This short course will allow you to develop an understanding of educational change and improvement from a research and practical perspective, and look at how that can impact teaching and learning outcomes. Suitable for teachers, researchers and administrators, you will be comparing evaluating and critiquing international reform efforts and developing knowledge about the dynamics of leading improvement as a strategy for change. Skills from this course Understand competing paradigms and methodologies in educational research Ability to examine the relationship between quantitative and qualitative research methods Identify theoretical and methodological grounds on which education research is based Analyse the relationship between research questions, method and methodology Assess the efficiency and effectiveness of educational research from different perspectives and methodologies Gain familiarity with different research practices and conduct ‘micro’ studies in the practice of educational research