Leading Educational Change and Improvement (Taught)

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.

The course may also be used as a bridge course towards applying for the MA Educational Leadership and Management.

Skills from this degree

• 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

This information is applicable for 2025 entry. Given the interval between the publication of courses and enrolment, some of the information may change. It is important to check our website before you apply.

Core modules
Leading Educational Change and Improvement (available face to face or online)

This module will 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. You will be comparing, evaluating and critiquing international reform efforts and developing knowledge about the dynamics of improvement as a strategy for change.

Assessment types vary depending on modules selected but may include different types of assignments, of varying lengths, as well as oral presentations. You will also complete a dissertation based on an individual research project, with support from a research supervisor.