Identifying Professional Functionings of Early Childhood Educators

Autor/inn/en	Molla, Tebeje; Nolan, Andrea
Titel	Identifying Professional Functionings of Early Childhood Educators
Quelle	In: Professional Development in Education, 45 (2019) 4, S.551-566 (16 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Molla, Tebeje) ORCID (Nolan, Andrea)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1941-5257
DOI	10.1080/19415257.2018.1449006
Schlagwörter	Early Childhood Teachers; Professional Identity; Child Caregivers; Foreign Countries; Faculty Development; Teacher Competencies; Educational Improvement; Expertise; Reflective Teaching; Professional Recognition; Value Judgment; Social Justice; Integrity; Australia + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Early childhood; Early childhood education; Teacher; Teachers; Frühe Kindheit; Frühkindliche Bildung; Frühpädagogik; Lehrer; Lehrerin; Lehrende; Caregiver; Caregivers; Carer; Child; Children; Kinderbetreuung; Ausland; Lehrkunst; Teaching improvement; Unterrichtsentwicklung; Expert appraisal; Werturteil; Soziale Gerechtigkeit; Integrität; Australien
Abstract	What does being a professional early childhood educator entail? This paper aims to address this question. Starting from the early 2000s, there has been increased attention to workforce professionalization in the early childhood education and care sector across OECD nations. Against the backdrop of recent early childhood workforce professionalization initiatives in Australia, and drawing on the Capability Approach to human development as an analytical framework, in this paper, we identify five evaluative spaces for assessing professional functionings: expertise, deliberation, recognition, responsiveness and integrity. We also argue that understanding what educators are actually able to be and do in their professional practices vis-à-vis policy expectations is instrumental in (a) identifying areas of professional learning needs, and (b) devising transformative learning experiences. (As Provided).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2020/1/01