Quality and Leadership in the Early Years: Research, Theory and Practice by Veri

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Do you need good leaders to achieve good quality or does good quality create good leadership? This book explores the meanings and understandings of quality and leadership that are present in early years services and how to lead in order to develop and achieve quality in your early years setting.

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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.

Author Biography

Verity Campbell-Barr is a lecturer in early childhood studies at Plymouth University, undertaking a Marie Curie European Research Fellowship (funded by the European Commission) in the Department of Child Education at the Faculty of Child and Adult Education, University of Debrecen, Hungary. Her research interests center on the quality of early childhood services, with her fellowship focusing on the knowledge, skills and attitudes required of the early childhood education, and care workforce. She has a background in researching the provision of early childhood services and policy developments in early childhood education and care.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.

Table of Contents

IntroductionSECTION 1: QUALITYChapter 1: Why an Interest in QualityChapter 2: What is Quality? Exploring the Evidence BaseSECTION 2: LEADERSHIPChapter 3: Tracing the Development of Early Years LeadershipChapter 4: Early Years Leaders - All Things to All PeopleSECTION 3: IMPLICATIONS FOR PRACTICEChapter 5: Visions of QualityChapter 6: Reflecting on Leading Quality Early Years Services

Review

This exciting book brings a new dimension to the study of leading quality services in the mixed economy of early years.  It addresses how post-structuralism supports understanding of quality leadership, especially where there are external accountability structures.  The reader is supported in deconstructing what is meant by quality, who defines it and enabled to consider alternative perspectives. -- Dr Eunice Lumsden

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This exciting book brings a new dimension to the study of leading quality services in the mixed economy of early years.

Details ISBN1473906482 Author Caroline Leeson Short Title QUALITY & LEADERSHIP IN THE EA Language English ISBN-10 1473906482 ISBN-13 9781473906488 Media Book Format Paperback Pages 168 Subtitle Research, Theory and Practice Place of Publication London Country of Publication United Kingdom DEWEY 372.21 Year 2016 Illustrations black & white illustrations UK Release Date 2016-01-21 Publication Date 2016-01-21 NZ Release Date 2016-01-21 Alternative 9781473906471 Audience Undergraduate Publisher Sage Publications Ltd Imprint Sage Publications Ltd AU Release Date 2016-01-20 We've got this

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