Early Childhood Professionals: Leading Today and TomorrowThis text clarifies for the first time what contemporary early childhood practitioners and leaders need to know in order to manage early childhood services in a professional way. With increasing pressure to provide high quality children's services, standards of practice in administration, management and leadership are increasingly being scrutinised. Written for early childhood students and practitioners, Early Childhood Professionals: Leading Today & Tomorrow explores the leadership concepts in an integrated manner. |
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Contents
making | 10 |
Definitions and discourse in leadership | 17 |
Mentoring as a leadership strategy | 23 |
Chapter 3 | 31 |
Chapter 2 | 40 |
Change as a process | 47 |
Change within organisations | 55 |
Leadership during change | 65 |
Promoting understanding of policies | 152 |
Chapter 6 | 161 |
Tools of a childrens champion | 168 |
Professional reform through action research | 176 |
Chapter 7 | 185 |
Conflict in early childhood settings | 191 |
Staff development | 197 |
Chapter 8 | 211 |
Leadership practices for effective partnerships with families | 76 |
Why does collaboration with families matter? | 84 |
Training to work with families | 94 |
Chapter 4 | 106 |
Regulating quality in early childhood | 113 |
Tools of quality assessment | 121 |
Quality assurancekeys to professional growth | 127 |
Chapter 5 | 134 |
Problems associated with the implementation of public policies | 145 |
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