The field of education management is concerned with the job positions or career opportunities that the educators or education professionals could take aside from teaching or lecturing positions in academic settings. This field is one of the subjects we discussed during the third term as a second year student taking up a bachelor of science in education and is the focus of a coursework we did for that term.
Since I had plans of taking up a career in administrative or management jobs in education when I have completed a few years of teaching experience after I graduated from my degree, I figured that I should have a good written coursework topic on educational management. Since our coursework on this subject is an essay writing task, I decided to focus the essay subject on the topic of courses and career options for educators planning to take up jobs in educational management. I planned, prepared and made the extensive research on the course options and career paths about the topic, took notes of important information, and collected the relevant materials for my essay topic.
My coursework essay on educational management would first discuss the courses that an educator could take in learning about educational management. I learned that a postgraduate degrees such as master's degree could prepare educators for senior administrative or school principal positions in primary and secondary level schools. On the other hand, doctorate degree programmes would enable educators take up lecturer or upper management positions in higher education institutions such as universities or professional schools.
The second part of my coursework essay discussed the specific fields in administrative or management positions that are available for graduates of courses or degrees in educational management. The specific fields include conflict management in the workplace, managing the diversity of different communities or minorities of the students and the teaching staff, and development, improvement and upgrading of educational technologies.
