Courses - Faculty of Education And Social Work
Social and Community Leadership
Postgraduate 700 Level Courses
Leadership: Ethics and Actions
Effective social and community leadership requires a strong and critical ethical foundation. Topics include the professional identity and values of social and community sector leadership, social justice, ethical and authentic leadership, and human systems thinking. Leadership that honours the Treaty of Waitangi, diversity, and equity, and actions based on those values, will be explored.
Leading Social Innovation
Evolving approaches to innovating social change will be examined. Topics include theories and change models of social innovation, venture creation, programme design and social enterprise development. Case study analysis will examine contemporary debates on and approaches to evidence-based programming, collaboration and co-design, social impact measurement, ethical social profit ventures, scaling impact and creating sustainable social change.
Leadership, Ethics, Systems
Effective social and community leadership requires a critical ethical and analytic foundation. Themes examined include ethical leadership values aligned to social justice, in combination with the capacity for analysis of complex social issues, systems, and change processes. Leadership that honours the Treaty of Waitangi, diversity, and equity, and formulates actions based on these values will be explored.
Restriction: SOCCLEAD 700
Innovation, Design, Evaluation
Evolving approaches to innovating social change and evaluation practice are examined. Topics include contemporary debates on, and approaches to, co-design, collaboration, ethical social innovation, evidence-informed programme design, evaluation models and impact measurement. Using experiential learning, groups of students will be guided through a social innovation design process in response to user needs, and develop robust evaluation proposals.
Restriction: EDUC 726, SOCCLEAD 701
Programme Evaluation - Level 9
Advanced topics and approaches to programme evaluation. The course will examine high level evaluation specifications, plans and reports to identify methods and options for critical evaluation serving the specialised needs of programme managers, sponsors and publics. Through the lens of real-world issues, politics of innovation and change will be considered in preparing an independent programme evaluation.
Enacting Social Change - Level 9
Builds on critical knowledge of a range of theoretical and practice approaches to leadership, systems thinking, social innovation and evaluation. Establishes advanced practice understandings of either personal leadership or organisational contexts through an independent structured reflective inquiry grounded in theory.
Corequisite: SOCCLEAD 703 or 706
Thesis - Level 9
To complete this course students must enrol in SOCCLEAD 794 A and B