Do you need good leaders to achieve good quality or does good quality create good leadership?
Quality is a term frequently used to describe early years provision without any further explanation of exactly what this ′quality provision′ looks like or how it can be achieved.
This book not only unpicks what is meant by the term ′quality′ in England, across the UK, and beyond, but it does so in the context of how to lead in order to develop and achieve quality. In exploring quality and leadership and the ways in which both terms have been conceptualised from a range of different perspectives you will be able to find a meaning that is right for you and your practice.
With chapters covering:
· The global interest in quality
· The broad nature of early childhood leadership
· Reflective evaluation and practice
This book will be of interest to setting and room leaders across the early years as well as students studying early childhood or in early years teacher training.
Tabella dei contenuti
IntroductionSECTION 1: QUALITY
Chapter 1: Why an Interest in Quality
Chapter 2: What is Quality? Exploring the Evidence Base
SECTION 2: LEADERSHIP
Chapter 3: Tracing the Development of Early Years Leadership
Chapter 4: Early Years Leaders – All Things to All People
SECTION 3: IMPLICATIONS FOR PRACTICE
Chapter 5: Visions of Quality
Chapter 6: Reflecting on Leading Quality Early Years Services
Circa l’autore
Dr Caroline Leeson is Associate Professor in Early Childhood Studies at Plymouth University. She has particular interests in the welfare of looked after children, children’s centre leadership and reflective practice and enjoys working with students towards their goal of being strong advocates for young children and their families. Her research interests are in social justice; children with a parent in prison; children who go missing and/or are vulnerable to sexual exploitation and the involvement of children in decision making processes. She is also active in researching the articulation of leadership in early years settings. Before working in higher education she worked as a social worker in child protection, fostering and adoption and was the leader of a family centre for a period of time. This experience proved particularly profound as she learnt the importance of communication, collaboration and the joy of spending time in the home corner making stone soup.Altri ebook dello stesso autore / Editore
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