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Effective leadership within early childhood education and care settings (ECEC) has been widely perceived as a key component in successfully improving its organizational and structural functions (Aubrey, Godfrey and Harris, 2012). In a time of continual policy reform to ensure quality improvement in services, competent leadership can help to ...
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This chapter seeks to understand what leadership looks like in early childhood education and care (ECEC) centres across a range of settings and contexts. Based on the analysis of data from TALIS Starting Strong, it starts by describing the responsibilities, functions and structures of centre leadership.
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Apr 3, 2020 · Pedagogical leadership addresses the complexity of teaching and learning in settings that serve young children, birth through third grade. DEVELOPING THE WHOLE LEADERSHIP FRAMEWORK. The Whole Leadership Framework was developed through an iterative process by engaging individuals across the country in several ways.
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- The Need For New Conceptions About Leadership
- Appropriate Use of Power Strategies
- Understanding Servant Leadership and Family-Centered Practice
- Adopting Servant Leadership Practices
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To advance effective family–professional partnerships, early childhood teachers must preserve the notion of caring in their professional culture (Hanson & Lynch 2013) while growing new forms of leadership (Douglass & Gittell 2012). How can early childhood practitioners ensure that they develop empowering partnerships with families while cultivating...
Social influence and social power are significant aspects of reciprocal family–professional relationships (Spino, Dinnebeil, & McInerney 2013). Erchul and colleagues (2014) note that social influence occurs when one person’s words or actions cause another person to change in some way, and the ability to bring about change constitutes social power. ...
Although research examines many aspects of servant leadership, the authors focus on three dimensions that have particular relevance to family-centered practice: voluntary subordination, authentic self, and responsible morality (Sendjaya, Sarros, & Santora 2008).
The following series of dialogues illustrates how interactions between the parents of a young child and an early childhood servant leader might unfold. It addresses ways a number of strategies inherent in the work of servant leaders could be carried out. The dialogues take place during an initial Individualized Family Service Plan meeting comprisin...
The field of early childhood has changed in response to the broader accountability movement in education. Professionals face pressures that undermine the use of family-centered early care and education practices, as policy makers expect programs to consolidate decisionmaking power based on traditional leadership models. There is a growing need for ...
Part IV: Leadership in Special Education • CEC leadership – Council for Exceptional Children (CEC) created new advanced content standards that state that special educators must develop “new responsibilities for leadership” (CEC, as cited in Ludlow, 2011) • “Special education specialists provide leadership to
Dec 19, 2018 · Abstract. In this conceptual article, the authors examine the context of early childhood education and care in England and the underpinning predominant ideologies to explore how these impact on the framing of leadership.
Mar 5, 2022 · This theoretical paper discusses leadership development and system building in ECEC through an ecological framework elaborates on current issues in preparing effective leaders, and offers...
