Programme Descriptor - BEd Hons: EMLP

The purpose of the University of Pretoria’s Bachelor of Education Honours degree in Education Management, Law and Policy is to equip educators at all levels of the education system to lead and manage effectively to ensure the provisioning of quality education in a transforming educational environment. It also serves to equip qualifying students with the theoretical and disciplinary base for postgraduate research at a master's level.

The degree explores the following themes:

• Leadership and management theories in education
• Organizational management and change in education
• Education law
• Policy studies in education
• Values and human rights in education
• Financial management in education
• People leadership, characteristics, approaches and strategies in education
• Research In leadership and management practices in education.

The B Ed Hons: EMLP Distance Education programme requires you to critically engage with problems encountered in public education, based on a sound theoretical knowledge and associated practical competences acquired through this programme. You must therefore deconstruct theoretical knowledge and reconstruct it in such a way as to serve specific purposes. You must critically reflect on what you learn so that you can gain theoretically as well as experientially.In this paradigm, facilitators are not the sole constructors of knowledge, but act as guides and partners with students, in the construction of relevant, contextual knowledge and/or new theory. The overarching aim and philosophy therefore is to 'construct' transformation to improve the quality of education in our schools.

Lectures are offered on campus on Friday afternoons between 15:00 and 18:15.

BEd (Hons) timetable 2013.