Cultivating Leadership in Early Childhood Education and Care
Trouble, Complexity and Promise
Seiten
2024
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-032-23436-6 (ISBN)
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-032-23436-6 (ISBN)
This book redefines leadership in early childhood education, offering fresh theoretical insights and practical approaches.
This book redefines leadership in early childhood education (ECE), offering fresh theoretical insights and practical approaches.
Delving into the challenges of the workforce in the ECE sector, this book unravels the narrative of leadership development. It underscores the importance of leadership practices in maintaining process quality within ECE, which significantly impacts children’s academic, emotional and social outcomes and life trajectories. The book presents novel conceptualisations of leadership, shedding light on factors that enable and constrain leadership development through the theoretical frameworks of complexity leadership theory and the theory of practice architectures. It also provides practical strategies for cultivating leadership within early childhood organisations. Through interviews and case studies, the book brings to life the experiences of ECE leaders, amplifying important themes and experiences.
This book is an invaluable read for educators and leaders around the world, providing inspiration and guidance for their leadership journey. It is also an empirically based must-read for lecturers and students in the higher education sector.
This book redefines leadership in early childhood education (ECE), offering fresh theoretical insights and practical approaches.
Delving into the challenges of the workforce in the ECE sector, this book unravels the narrative of leadership development. It underscores the importance of leadership practices in maintaining process quality within ECE, which significantly impacts children’s academic, emotional and social outcomes and life trajectories. The book presents novel conceptualisations of leadership, shedding light on factors that enable and constrain leadership development through the theoretical frameworks of complexity leadership theory and the theory of practice architectures. It also provides practical strategies for cultivating leadership within early childhood organisations. Through interviews and case studies, the book brings to life the experiences of ECE leaders, amplifying important themes and experiences.
This book is an invaluable read for educators and leaders around the world, providing inspiration and guidance for their leadership journey. It is also an empirically based must-read for lecturers and students in the higher education sector.
Dr Leanne Gibbs is Senior Lecturer at Charles Sturt University. She joined Charles Sturt University after an exemplary career within Australian early childhood education. Her research interests include leadership, advocacy and public policy, and she has published extensively on the topic of leadership emergence and cultivation in early childhood education.
Prologue
Part I: Trouble
1. We Need to Talk About Leadership in ECEC
2. Thinking Differently About Leadership Theory and Practice
Part II: Complexity
3. Dispositions for Leading: Knowledge, Skills, Values
4. The Complex Site of ECEC: Where Leadership Happens
Part III: Promise
5. Organisations Cultivating and Shaping Leadership
6. Learning for Leading
7. A Path Ahead
| Erscheinungsdatum | 04.10.2024 |
|---|---|
| Zusatzinfo | 6 Tables, black and white; 5 Line drawings, black and white; 1 Halftones, black and white; 6 Illustrations, black and white |
| Verlagsort | London |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 156 x 234 mm |
| Gewicht | 344 g |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Allgemeine Psychologie |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Arbeits- und Organisationspsychologie | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Vorschulpädagogik | |
| Wirtschaft ► Betriebswirtschaft / Management ► Planung / Organisation | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-032-23436-9 / 1032234369 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-032-23436-6 / 9781032234366 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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