Education Planning and Administration 
                         Dr Brian Martin 
                         Credit Rating   20 credits, SCQF 11 
                          
                         Aims 
                         1.  To  enable  the  critical  examination  of  trends  and  directions  in  educational 
                               administration,  planning  and  management  in  their  social,  educational  and 
                               political contexts 
                         2.  To facilitate the critical appraisal of a range of theories relevant to the study and 
                               practice of administration, planning and management in education  
                         3.   To relate theoretical considerations to current substantive problems and issues. 
                         Teaching 
                                10 x 2.5 hour sessions, utilising lecture, seminar and case study method. 
                          
                         Assessment 
                                An essay of 4,000 words. 
                          
                         Content 
                         The course will consider administration, planning and management in education as a whole - 
                         pre-school; school and post-school - but allow each student to focus on the level/sector/s and 
                         issues of most interest to him/her. Efforts will be made to enable students to link themes and 
                         issues from other modules they have already taken, or are taking concurrently, to themes, 
                         issues and approaches in education administration, planning and management.  
                          
                         An overview of the historical development of state administration of education in the modern 
                         age will help identify issues in administration, planning and management faced in the late-
                         modern/post-modern context - such as challenges to the role of the state in the form of (eg) 
                         financial imperatives and marketisation on one hand and social justice on the other. Policy 
                         responses to such issues will be explored in terms of their impact on public administration of 
                         education, on educational planning and the management of educational services. 
                          
                         The role of the state and specifically of central and local government in the administration, 
                         planning and management of education will be examined alongside an evaluation of the roles 
                         of parastatal and non-governmental organisations. 
                          
                         The  influences  exercised  by  the  resultant  dynamic  on  educational  institutions  and  on 
                         administration, planning and management within them will be examined in a series of case 
                         studies which will draw on current examples in Scotland which in turn will be appraised 
                         within an international context, drawing on comparative perspectives. 
                          
                          
                          
               Illustrative Content  
                
                 1.  Overview of selected accounts and critiques of the relationship between public 
                    administration, state planning and the management of education 
                 2.  Determining demand and the exercise of the planning function in the education 
                    sector 
                 3.  The  relationship  between  administration  and  management  in  the  education 
                    sector 
                 4.  Professionalism in the education sector and its effects on the manager 
                 5.  Strategic planning in educational settings 
                 6.  Notions of the "value chain" and "business process" in relation to planning and 
                    the management of resources in the education sector 
                 7.  "Re-engineering" and the management of educational organisations 
                 8.  Stakeholder analysis and educational planning 
                 9.  Output,  outcome  and  impact  assessment  in  the  education  sector,  its 
                    management and implications for planning 
                 10. Public   accountability    and  educational  administration,  planning  and 
                    management. 
                  
               Selected Reading  
               Altrichter H and Elliot J (2000) Images of Educational Change      Buckingham : Open 
                   University 
               Bush T (1989) Managing Education: Theory and Practice    Milton Keynes : Open 
                      University 
               Dale R (1998)    Markets and Education      NSW :  Allen & Unwin 
               Lingard B et al (1997) Educational Policy and the Politics of Change    London : Routledge 
               Middlewood, D and Lumby J (1998) Strategic Management in Schools and Colleges           
                      London :  Paul Chapman Publishing 
               Samier E (ed) (2003) Ethical Foundations for Educational Administration    
                      London :    Routledge 
               Sayer J (1993) The Future Governance of Education        London : Cassell 
               Scott P (ed) (1999)  Higher Education Re-formed               London : Routledge 
               Wagner RB (1993)    Accountability in Education            London : Routledge 
               Wilmott R (2002) Education Policy and Realist Social Theory         London :  Routledge 
                
                
                
                
                
                
                                                                                                           
                                                                                                July 2009