EDL 9883:Performance for Educational Executives: Politics, Power, and Policy

3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
Prerequisite: Admission to the Doctoral program in Leadership for Learning.
This course introduces the conceptualization of schooling as politics and is designed to help students understand the political contexts and the institutional environment in which educators operate. Through a general awareness of conceptual frameworks (such as system framework, diffusion framework, values, demands and interest groups, micro and macropolitics), used to examine the politics of education, students will obtain, assess, and assemble data and interpret those data to discover connections and contradictions about the concepts from the readings and literature relating to our current educational climate. This course includes a performance-based field experience.