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dc.contributor.authorSims, Margareten
dc.contributor.authorForrest, Rhondaen
dc.contributor.authorSemann, Anthonyen
dc.contributor.authorSlattery, Colinen
dc.date.accessioned2015-06-01T15:41:00Z-
dc.date.issued2015-
dc.identifier.citationInternational Journal of Leadership in Education: Theory and Practice, 18(2), p. 149-166en
dc.identifier.issn1464-5092en
dc.identifier.issn1360-3124en
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/17414-
dc.description.abstractThis study reports the understandings of leadership held by 351 Victorian early childhood leaders (ECLs). Internationally, ECLs are expected to drive quality improvement through mentoring and modelling: a concept associated with distributive leadership. However, ECLs often move into leadership positions by accident and are ill-prepared for their role. Complicating their difficulties are extant perceptions of leadership: many follow models of leadership that prevent them from re-conceptualizing leadership in a new, socially constructed form. This impacts significantly on their ability to influence quality improvement. In this study, ECLs saw relational aspects of their role as particularly important, and were much less concerned with critiquing current quality praxis. They saw their role as important in supporting the development of high-quality practice identified in the National Quality Standards. The paper contends that ECLs play an important role in developing the profession's own understandings of quality, and of leadership itself; thus, their lack of engagement in this debate is somewhat concerning. If EC is to continue to evolve as a profession internationally, we need ECLs who excel in quality improvement at the service level, and who are willing to advocate for the ongoing development of professional understandings of quality.en
dc.languageenen
dc.publisherRoutledgeen
dc.relation.ispartofInternational Journal of Leadership in Education: Theory and Practiceen
dc.titleConceptions of early childhood leadership: driving new professionalism?en
dc.typeJournal Articleen
dc.identifier.doi10.1080/13603124.2014.962101en
dc.subject.keywordsEarly Childhood Education (excl Maori)en
local.contributor.firstnameMargareten
local.contributor.firstnameRhondaen
local.contributor.firstnameAnthonyen
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local.subject.for2008130102 Early Childhood Education (excl Maori)en
local.subject.seo2008939999 Education and Training not elsewhere classifieden
local.profile.schoolSchool of Educationen
local.profile.schoolSchool of Educationen
local.profile.schoolEarly Childhooden
local.profile.schoolEarly Childhooden
local.profile.emailmsims7@une.edu.auen
local.profile.emailrforrest@une.edu.auen
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local.record.institutionUniversity of New Englanden
local.identifier.epublicationsrecordune-20141002-110945en
local.publisher.placeUnited Kingdomen
local.format.startpage149en
local.format.endpage166en
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local.peerreviewedYesen
local.identifier.volume18en
local.identifier.issue2en
local.title.subtitledriving new professionalism?en
local.contributor.lastnameSimsen
local.contributor.lastnameForresten
local.contributor.lastnameSemannen
local.contributor.lastnameSlatteryen
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local.identifier.unepublicationidune:17628en
local.identifier.handlehttps://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/17414en
dc.identifier.academiclevelAcademicen
dc.identifier.academiclevelAcademicen
local.title.maintitleConceptions of early childhood leadershipen
local.output.categorydescriptionC1 Refereed Article in a Scholarly Journalen
local.search.authorSims, Margareten
local.search.authorForrest, Rhondaen
local.search.authorSemann, Anthonyen
local.search.authorSlattery, Colinen
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local.year.published2015en
local.subject.for2020390302 Early childhood educationen
local.subject.seo2020169999 Other education and training not elsewhere classifieden
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