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The role of the educational leader in long day care – how do they perceive their role?

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posted on 2016-01-01, 00:00 authored by Liz RouseLiz Rouse, G Spradbury
National reforms introduced into the early childhood education and care sector across Australia have created a requirement for each service to appoint an ‘educational’ leader to provide curriculum direction to ensure that children achieve quality care and education to lead to positive outcomes. Leadership in the early childhood has often been contested and complex, but the addition of a new leadership for building pedagogy and practice has created additional complexities. This paper reports the findings of a small-scale qualitative research study investigating how a small number of educational leaders working in long day care settings in urban Australia perceive their role. The study identified that these educational leaders came to the position unwillingly and felt poorly prepared and supported to meet the challenges presented.

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Journal

Early child development and care

Volume

186

Issue

3

Pagination

497 - 508

Publisher

Routledge

Location

Abingdon, Eng.

ISSN

0300-4430

eISSN

1476-8275

Language

eng

Publication classification

C1 Refereed article in a scholarly journal; C Journal article

Copyright notice

2015, Taylor & Francis

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