| CODE | LLI5024 | ||||||
| TITLE | Leadership in a Multicultural Context | ||||||
| UM LEVEL | 05 - Postgraduate Modular Diploma or Degree Course | ||||||
| MQF LEVEL | 7 | ||||||
| ECTS CREDITS | 5 | ||||||
| DEPARTMENT | Leadership for Learning and Innovation | ||||||
| DESCRIPTION | This study-unit explores how school leaders are to engage with multicultural context as a learning experience for the school community. The study-unit will introduce the students to the relationship of education with a multicultural context as a pedagogical relation. Furthermore it will seek to assist the students to develop multicultural competences as part of leadership operation. The ideals and values on which this study-unit will be formulated is that of the democratic ideals of engaging and inclusion of diversity as a means of mutual learning. The study-unit will demonstrate how multicultural integration based on the ideals of multiculturalism, will on the one hand preserve and respect the diversity of each member of the school community, while, on the other hand, offering possibilities of relationality and mutual learning. Four important pedagogical praxes (tools) that this unit will utilize to develop multicultural educational leadership are: complexification, translanguageing and hospitality and hate speech understanding. Study-Unit Aims: 1. Enhance the awareness of multiculturalism theoretical concepts into a pedagogical praxes. 2. Help students identify a school administrative approach that is multicultural inclusive and sensitive. 3. Enable the application of a multicultural curriculum. 4. Increase the awareness of teaching strategies that are multicultural inclusive. 5. Help students to diversify different praxes of integration. 6. Enable a teaching and administrative strategies to deal with hate speech. 7. Lead students to Identify educational praxes of inclusion towards learners of different cultural, religious and/or ethnic background. 8. Develop awareness of inclusive polices for educational institutions, organizations, operations and classrooms regarding learners of different cultural, religious and/or ethnic background. 9. Introduce students to a pedagogy that engages with complexification. 10. Assist students to develop a more ethically inclusive praxis that treats all learners as agents. Learning Outcomes: 1. Knowledge & Understanding: By the end of the study-unit the student will be able to: 1. Recognise the pedagogical operations of complexification, translanguageing and hospitality; 2. Identify the operation and implications of hate speech from an educational perspective; 3. Develop Self Cultural Awareness and understand its impact on attitude, fulfillment, and personality. 2. Skills: By the end of the study-unit the student will be able to: 1. Consolidate his/her historical, philosophical and pedagogical understanding of the relationship between diversity and multiculturalism, and education; 2. Implement a more inclusive approach in his/her teaching settings and operations; 3. Create an ethical and moral understanding of his/her own educational praxes regarding diversity and multiculturalism issues; 4. Synthesise multicultural and diversity literature and research in education; 5. Examine key integration and inclusive concepts significant to Educational leadership and learning. Main Text/s and any supplementary readings: Main Texts: - Bauman, Z. Liquid Modernity, Malden, USA: Polity, 2012. - Freire, P. Pedagogy of Freedom: Ethics, Democracy and Civic Courage, New York: Rowman & Littlefield Publication, INC. 2001. - Modood, T. Multiculturalism, Cambridge, UK: Polity Press 2013. Supplementary Readings: - Geras, N. The Contract of Mutual Indifference: Political Philosophy After the Holocaust, New York: Verso, 1998. - Mouffe, C. The Democratic Paradox, New York: Verso, 2009. - Bauman, Z. The Migration Panic And Its (Mis)uses London: Social Europe, 2015. https://www.socialeurope.eu/2015/12/migration-panic-misuses/ |
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| ADDITIONAL NOTES | Pre-requisite Qualifications: 1st Degree and 5 years teaching experience. | ||||||
| STUDY-UNIT TYPE | Lecture | ||||||
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| LECTURER/S | Francois Mifsud |
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The availability of optional units may be subject to timetabling constraints. Units not attracting a sufficient number of registrations may be withdrawn without notice. It should be noted that all the information in the description above applies to study-units available during the academic year 2025/6. It may be subject to change in subsequent years. |
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