Leading and Managing Early Childhood Settings
PostgraduateMAQ-ECHX82602025
Previously MAQ-ECHX826
Build your capacity to lead and manage by exploring early childhood leadership theory. Investigate management structures, regulatory and legislative frameworks, and the ethical and professional roles and responsibilities required
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- Study method
- 100% online
- Assessments
- 100% online
- Entry requirements
- Part of a degree
- Duration
- 13 weeks
- Start dates
- 24 Feb 2025
- Loan available
- HECS-HELP and FEE-HELP available
Leading and Managing Early Childhood Settings
About this subject
On successful completion of this subject, you will be able to:
- understand and critically engage with the ever changing socio-political and legal contexts within which early childhood settings operate
- identify key differences between the managing and leading of an early childhood setting, and the range of management structures under which early childhood settings operate
- demonstrate a strong understanding of leadership theories
- demonstrate knowledge and foundational skills that they, as future managers and leaders of early childhood settings require
- apply high order analytical and integrative thinking skills through critique of practice and theory to understand the complexities of early childhood management and leadership
- demonstrate a commitment to managing and leading ethically and professionally
- develop professional judgement and vision in relation to leading and managing early childhood settings
- reflect on their own knowledge and skill base and consider professional development priorities that will enable them to, as a future leader of an early childhood setting, play a critical role in that centre’s provision of quality early childhood education for young children.
- A week-by-week guide to the topics in this unit will be provided in the study materials.
This subject was previously known as ECHX826 Leading and Managing Early Childhood Settings.
This subject explores micro and macro systems that impact on the effective leadership and management of early childhood settings. The unit will focus on the critical exploration of three content areas: the social, political and legal contexts within which early childhood organisations in Australia operate; early childhood leadership theory; and roles and responsibilities of early childhood leaders and managers. Students will investigate diverse management structures, regulatory and legislative frameworks, and the ethical and professional roles and responsibilities of early childhood teachers as leaders and managers
- Leadership in action (50%)
- Leadership & the NQF (30%)
- Reflecting on leading (20%)
For textbook details check your university's handbook, website or learning management system (LMS).
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Entry requirements
To enrol in this subject, you must be admitted into a degree.
Prior study
You must have successfully completed the following subject(s) before starting this subject:
one of
MAQ-ECHX6010 (Not currently available)
MAQ-ECHX8200 (Not currently available)
Equivalent subjects
You should not enrol in this subject if you have successfully completed any of the following subject(s) because they are considered academically equivalent:
MAQ-ECEX826 (Not currently available)
MAQ-ECHX826 (Not currently available)
Others
NCCW (pre-2020 units) ECED826, ECEX826, ECED604, EDCN845, ECED745, ECED834, ECHX826
NCCW ECHE8260 Leading and Managing Early Childhood Settings
[Admission to MTeach(0-5) and (40cp from ECEX or ECHX units at 6000 level) and (ECEX820 or ECHX820 or ECHX8200) and (ECEX823 or ECHX823 or ECHX8230) and (ECEX824 or ECHX824 or ECHX8240) and (ECEX827 or ECHX827 or ECHX8270)]
Additional requirements
- Other requirements - Students who have an Academic Standing of Suspension or Exclusion under Macquarie University's Academic Progression Policy are not permitted to enrol in OUA units offered by Macquarie University. Students with an Academic Standing of Suspension or Exclusion who have enrolled in units through OUA will be withdrawn.
Study load
- 0.125 EFTSL
- This is in the range of 10 to 12 hours of study each week.
Equivalent full time study load (EFTSL) is one way to calculate your study load. One (1.0) EFTSL is equivalent to a full-time study load for one year.
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