Organisational capacity building: Readiness for change in Australian child care

Title
Organisational capacity building: Readiness for change in Australian child care
Publication Date
2015
Author(s)
Davis, Elise
Corr, Lara
Cook, Kay
Sims, Margaret
( author )
OrcID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4686-4245
Email: msims7@une.edu.au
UNE Id une-id:msims7
Gilson, Kim-Michelle
Ting, Christina
Ummer-Christian, Rahila
Type of document
Journal Article
Language
en
Entity Type
Publication
Publisher
Sage Publications Ltd
Place of publication
Australia
UNE publication id
une:17014
Abstract
This study assesses family day care educators' readiness for increasing their knowledge and skills in promoting children's social and emotional wellbeing by applying the Transtheoretical Model of Change conceptual framework. Forty-eight educators in one family day care scheme, in a low socioeconomic area of Victoria, Australia participated in telephone interviews. Their readiness to improve children's social and emotional wellbeing was classified according to the stages of change model. A high proportion of educators were classified into the action or maintenance stage. Educators reported a range of activities that they were undertaking such as attending professional development sessions and studying formal early childhood qualifications. While educators were open to increasing their knowledge and skills in promoting children's social and emotional wellbeing, they were juggling many demands. The stages of change model was useful in providing an understanding of the processes and principles for progressing through stages, essential for organisational capacity building.
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Citation
Australasian Journal of Early Childhood, 40(1), p. 47-54
ISSN
1839-5961
1836-9391
Start page
47
End page
54

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