Leading and managing early years. (2011)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Carol Aubrey.
• Other Names: Aubrey, Carol
• Contents: Introduction: Theorizing Leadership in Early Childhood; The Early Childhood Leaders' Agenda; Context; What Do We Know Already?; What Leadership Research Applies?; What Do We Need to Know?; Leadership in English Early Childhood Education and Care; Introduction; Our Objectives; What We Asked Our Early Childhood Professionals about Leadership; What We Found Out; What We Made of the Findings; Practitioners' Understandings of Early Childhood Leadership; Introduction; Characteristics of the Leaders and Staff That We Talked to; Definitions and Perceptions of Leadership; Roles, Responsibilities and Functions of Leaders; Decision-Making; Internal and External Influences on Leadership; Training; Leadership in a Changing World; Early Childhood Leaders' Work; Introduction; A Typical Day; Roles, Responsibilities and Functions; Decision-Making; Influences on Leadership; Training; Collective Views on the Video Highlights; 'I Don't Like the Idea of Making a Profit... Exploiting Those on Low Wages'; Introduction; Early Childhood Education and Care Policy; Early Childhood Profession and Workplace Issues; Making a Profit: The Role of the Private Sector; Preschool Care and Education plc?; Journeys into Leadership; Introduction; A journey?; Career Paths of Early Childhood Leaders; Support through the Career Cycle; Mentoring as a Leadership Strategy; Introduction; Learning from Experience; The Nature of Mentoring; Establishing Appropriate Ground Rules; What Does Learning from Day-to-Day Experience Really Mean?; A Framework for Staff Development; Mentoring for the Leader; Future Possibilities; The Challenge of Leading Multi-Agency Teams; Introduction; Challenges to Collaboration; Questions to Ask; What Do We know about Effective Multi-Agency Working?; Models of Multi-Agency Working; Organization of Professional Groups; Views on Multi-Agency Working from Four Integrated Centres; What we found out; A closer look at the challenges of multi-agency working; Case Studies; Leadership by the Many; Leading in a Time of Change; Introduction; A Need for Interprofessional Education; Staff Resistance to Change; A Model for Improving the Early Childhood Integrated Centre; Understanding Change; Reflective Practice and Action Learning; Introduction; Reflective Process of Progressive Problem-Solving; Planning an Action Research Cycle with Integrated Centre Leaders; Doing Action Research in the Early Childhood Field; Conclusions; Reflections; Revisiting Our Initial Objectives; Conclusions;
• Publisher Details: London : SAGE Publications Ltd
• Publication Date: 2011
• Extent: 1 online resource (240 pages)
• Subjects: 372.12011; Elementary school administration; Nursery schools -- Administration; Educational leadership; Elementary school principals
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781446259856; 1446259854
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