Social Leadership in Early Childhood Education and Care : an introduction / JuneO'Sullivan, Mona Sakr.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

O'Sullivan, June, author.

Sakr, Mona, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Early childhood education--Administration.

Early childhood education.

Educational leadership.

School management and organization.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (208 pages).

Edition:

First edition.

Distribution:

London [England] : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2021.

Place of Publication:

London [England] : Bloomsbury, 2022.

Summary:

"Across the world, organisations in early childhood education (ECE) face major operational challenges, including staff recruitment, retention and wellbeing. These issues impact negatively on the experience of children, carers and the wider community. Social leadership is a new model of leadership that can be implemented to combat these issues and challenges. It prioritises warm, non-hierarchical and inclusive modes of leadership, which enables all staff across an organisation to make change by acting from a strong sense of community and purpose. Using qualitative and quantitative data, this book provides an introduction to social leadership in the context of ECE, and shows how it can be developed and implemented by organisations, training bodies and educational institutions. The book draws on an international research project called Social Leadership in Early Childhood Education (SLECE), which tracked the impact of social leadership initiatives in Australia, Romania, the UK and the USA. Each chapter includes a list of aims, boxed summaries of key concepts, reflective and discussion questions, a further reading list and a bulleted chapter summary."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction

Part I: What is Social Leadership in Early Childhood Education?

1. Community Building and Relational Logics

2. Prioritising Purpose

3. Connecting Purpose with Pedagogy

4. Organisations 'Addicted to Change'

Part II: Why does Social Leadership Matter for Early Childhood Education ?

5. Recruitment as Community Membership

6. Retention as Community Affinity

7. Retention as Community Connectedness

8. The Impact on Child-Adult Interactions

9. Developing Organisational Leadership

10. Fostering the Wider Community

Part III: How Can We Support Social Leadership to Flourish?

11.

Organisational Culture

12.

Storytelling

13.

Continuous Improvement

14. Distributed Pedagogical Leadership

15. Action Research

Conclusion

References

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781350212183

1350212180

9781350212176

1350212172

9781350212169

1350212164

OCLC:

1289456815