EDUC 708S - Leading Change: Politics, Policy, and Advocacy in PK-12/Postsecondary Educational Settings

Prerequisite, Shanghai Normal University student in the Ph.D. in education major. Examines role of leader as change agent, contrasting formal authority and social influence. Studies organizations as political entities; subject to, and shaping public policy. Topics include: Planned change, effective advocacy, power, influence, formal/informal systems, organizations as instruments of social control and/or social change, organizational culture. Some sections of EDUC 708 will be combined with EDUC 708S. (Offered as needed.) 3 credits