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Inclusive Leadership: Collaborating for professional development

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Inclusive Leadership: Collaborating for professional development

This free course will enable leaders and aspiring leaders in a range of educational settings to consider different approaches to leading inclusive professional development. Students will be introduced to concepts and practices for collaborative enquiry and contextually relevant professional development. They will be encouraged to reflect on how these approaches can contribute to inclusive communities of practice within their organisation and how they might support the needs of educators at different stages of their career. They will also examine how inclusive leadership for professional development can foster agency and individual development in staff members as well as driving institutional change.

If you haven’t already, you might want to consider exploring the related OpenLearn course Inclusive Leadership: Effecting change before starting this course. You might also be interested in the Open University Inclusive Practice Leadership and Management Masters pathways.



Course learning outcomes

After studying this course, you should be able to:

  • understand a range of approaches to inclusive leadership of professional development
  • engage with inclusive strategies for leading professional development for educators at different stages in their career
  • identify ways in which inclusive professional development can foster individual agency
  • consider how inclusive leadership for professional development can support change within an educational institution.

First Published: 30/10/2023

Updated: 30/10/2023

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