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Student Feedback & Leadership
Figure 6 P.A.C.E.D Distributed Leadership Model to Enhance Student Learning
and Teaching Practice
The section is structured to present the action research cycles from four
‘Pause points’ identified by Plenary sessions that operated as a Community
of Practice (CoP) around the issue of enhancing student feedback in learning
and teaching practice. Accordingly this section of the report is presented
as five reflective cycles associated with the five plenary sessions held in April,
August and November 2007 and May and November 2008. While, as is the
nature of action research, these reflective cycles overlap to some extent, they
provide a useful approach to reflect upon the emerging multi-level (distributed)
model of leadership capacity building in student feedback.
Also presented in this section is the R.E.A.L.I.S.E.D. Change Management
Model that was developed to support the Implementation of the P.A.C.E.D.
Distributed Leadership Model (Figure 7). This Change Management Model,
while recognising the central role of the individual academic in enhancing
student learning and teaching practice, acknowledges the need for a holistic
multi-level leadership approach across the university. Accordingly, the
R.E.A.L.I.S.E.D. Change Management Model has 8 sections that relate
to the 5 elements of the P.A.C.E.D. Distributed leadership model:
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Recognition – of individual academic excellence through awards and
Promotion opportunities
– – Encouragement – of individual academic through the provision of time
and financial support to design and develop learning and teaching
practice innovations
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