EDUC42730: The Strategic Leadership of Continuing Professional Development (CPD)

• This module is available to students registered on the PG Certificate in the Practice of Education. Any student who passes this module and at a later date transfers onto the MA in Education may not subsequently take Module EDUC 41230 Leading Continuing Professional Development.

• None.

• None.

• This module aims to:
• develop a critical understanding of the strategic role of leadership of CPD. To achieve this aim its main objectives are to ensure students:
• engage with the body of knowledge that illuminates and facilitates analysis of the process and impact of the CPD leadership role;
• undertake a critical, reflective analysis of their own practice as CPD leaders;
• identify any areas for future development that emerge from that analysis.

• There will be 4 strands:
• a. Developing as a reflective practitioner within the strategic CPD context, including addressing research evidence on effective adult learning and implications for strategic leadership of CPD;
• b. Undertaking a critical review of strategic leadership concepts and theories;
• c. Exploring and critiquing different models of CPD, characteristics of learning organizations;
• d. Evolving through personal engagement an understanding of the strategic role of CPD in building organizational capacity and sustainability.

Subject-specific Knowledge:

• Knowledge of key themes and issues in research on effective cpd
• Knowledge of how cpd plays a strategic role in the development of a learning organisation;
• Knowledge of key concepts and theories associated with strategic leadership;

Subject-specific Skills:

• Ability to reflect critically upon own practice as a cpd leader
• Ability to apply outcomes from that reflection and become an effective cpd leader

Key Skills:

• Management of own learning and group learning
• Skills of critical analysis and reflection relating to strategic role of cpd
• Use of own professional context as a source for learning and development
• Understanding of how partnerships and collaborations can support cpd development in a learning organisation

• The module will make heavy use of seminars and workshops. There will be some lecturing input, but the emphasis of the teaching-learning process will be on developing the students knowledge, skills and understanding of the content, aims and objectives through engagement with the issues in their own professional context and relating them through reading and discussion to the key themes in the research-based literature.

If you have a question about Durham's modular degree programmes, please visit our Help page. If you have a question about modular programmes that is not covered by the Help page, or a query about the on-line Postgraduate Module Handbook, please contact us.

Prospective Students: If you have a query about a specific module or degree programme, please Ask Us.

Current Students: Please contact your department.