IAB Keynote Address

Institut Aminuddin BakiManaging the Core for Excellence

Dr. Amin SeninDirector

Institut Aminuddin Baki

Leadership and ManagementIssues and direction

Institut Aminuddin Baki

What’s Next?

Training and DevelopmentPerspective and model

Retrospection

Managing the core

Leadership and ManagementIssues and direction

Institut Aminuddin Baki

What’s Next?

Training and DevelopmentPerspective and model

Retrospection

Managing the core

Fayol (1916)

PlanningOrganizing

CommandingCoordinatingControlling

Mintzberg (2010)

Industrial Paradigm Human Paradigm

Managing Model

Educational Administration

Educational Management

Educational Leadership

Operational

TheoreticalIssues

This transition has accompanied by lively argument about the extent to which education should be regarded as simply another field for the application of general principles of leadership and management, or should be seen as a separate discipline with its own body of knowledge. - Bush (2011: 15)

The existing leadership literature is still dominated by theory that is premised upon a rational and technicist perspective. - Harris (2003: 15)

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Theoretical

OperationalIn- service training

Pluralist program

Ad hoc learning

Campus provision

Practitioner-led

Pre-service training

Centralized program

Certification

School-based

University-led

or

Leadership and ManagementIssues and direction

Institut Aminuddin Baki

What’s Next?

Training and DevelopmentPerspective and model

Retrospection

Managing the core

PracticeTheoryTheorist

Model

Trainer Practitioner

(Knowledge of practice) (Knowledge in practice)

(Knowledge on practice)

Reflection

ReflectionReceived Knowledge Experiential Knowledge

MeaningOld New

Leadership and ManagementIssues and direction

Institut Aminuddin Baki

What’s Next?

Training and DevelopmentPerspective and model

Retrospection

Managing the core

Leadership and ManagementIssues and direction

Institut Aminuddin Baki

What’s Next?

Training and DevelopmentPerspective and model

Retrospection

Managing the core

What we train & develop?

How we train & develop?

Integral to both what and how?

What we train & develop?Coherent curriculum

- Content review

- Impact Study

How we train & develop?Sound learning experience

- Develop alternative way

- Capacity building

Integral to bothAuthentic Operacy

- Practical reasoning

Operacy is about action and the skill of thinking for action instead of thinking for description.

“- Edward de Bono

“Practical reasoning - a more integrated conception of the role of knowledge that combines collaborative engagement with real-world issues, analysis, and application. - Fullan (2009: 43)

Practical ReasoningCombining Analysis and Application

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Thank you