Browsing by Subject "manageriaalinen hallintokulttuuri"

The main aim of this research is to clarify practices and perceptions of heads of departments regarding the pedagogical leadership in the university. The research of pedagogical leadership has usually been focused on the elementary school context or in the day care context. In order to improve teaching and its quality in the university level, more information about leadership of teaching is also needed. The pedagogical leadership is understood here as leadership of teaching. Attention is also drawn to the models of university management and their impact to pedagogical leadership. Especially the focus is on the collegial and managerial models of management. The research is a qualitative study. The material was collected with focused interviews in spring 2015. The informants were seven heads of departments and one vice head of department, in a Finnish multidisciplinary university. The analysis was made with inductive content analysis. First, thematically similar contents were classified in sub-categories to make it possible to encapsulate the material. Secondly, the similar sub-categories were combined under main-categories. The research's focus was on how collegial and managerial models of management occur on the heads of departments' practices and perceptions of pedagogical leadership. Based on the analysis, ten main-categories were to be found. The organizing of the pedagogical leadership can happen in three ways: it's delegated, it's collegial or the head of department is in charge of it. The pedagogical principals are negotiated collegially, individually or the faculty has influence on them. The responsibility of the development of the pedagogical leadership is divided in to collegial or individual action. The efforts of the head of the department to improve the development of the pedagogical leadership, happen through his/her own actions or collegially implemented. To maintain the collegial management culture, it's important to underline its importance in the development of the leadership of teaching and also in the courses of management which are designed for the leaders of pedagogical leadership. Overall it's important to invest to these courses of management because they help to raise awareness of the importance of pedagogical leadership.