EDU 502 : Ethnographies of Educational Leadership

EDU 502 approaches educational leadership as the facilitation of a complex web of interconnections in which various actors, student and non-student alike, form together with the surrounding society a single ethnographic space for the production and contestation of meaning. Students study and analyze case studies of educational administration that inform and reflect a variety of surrounding cultures, each with its own unique norms and assumptions, historical evolution and guiding myths. The course utilizes firsthand accounts of the leadership experience in an effort to understand the world of leadership from the point of view of the leader and not simply of the outside observer. Taking place over the Winter Block, this course examines qualitative research methods that are descriptive, field-based, interpretive, and discovery-focused. A two-day long “shadowing” experience with local educational leaders, both school-based and non-school based, provides real-world opportunities for experiential learning and investigation.

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Subject

Graduate School Courses

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3