Educational Leadership in Early Childhood Education: Participant Vulnerability and a 'Rule of Care'

Autor/inn/en	Linda Henderson; Joce Nuttall; Elizabeth Wood; Jenny Martin
Titel	Educational Leadership in Early Childhood Education: Participant Vulnerability and a 'Rule of Care'
Quelle	In: Journal of Early Childhood Research, 22 (2024) 2, S. 297-312Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Linda Henderson) ORCID (Elizabeth Wood)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1476-718X
DOI	10.1177/1476718X231210641
Schlagwörter	Forschungsbericht; Instructional Leadership; Early Childhood Education; Laboratories; Child Care Centers; Foreign Countries; Educational Quality; Intervention; Standards; Australia + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Instruction; Leadership; Bildung; Erziehung; Führung; Early childhood; Education; Frühkindliche Bildung; Frühpädagogik; Laboratory; Laboratorium; Child care facilities; Child care services; Kinderzentrum; Kinderbetreuung; Ausland; Quality of education; Bildungsqualität; Standard; Australien
Abstract	There is considerable literature describing the use of Change Laboratory as a simultaneous research and intervention methodology in workplace settings. However, there is limited literature describing Change Laboratory from the researcher-facilitator perspective. This paper examines the ethical dimensions of Change Laboratory from this perspective and specifically how a 'rule of care' became a conscious rule. The context is a series of Change Laboratories implemented with Centre Directors and Educational Leaders from early childhood education and care centres in Darwin and Melbourne, Australia. Based on our analysis we attribute the emergence of this rule to a particular vulnerability of the participants: that they were all recruited from centres that had been publicly designated as "Working Towards National Quality Standard" requirements for quality early childhood education and care practices. We present evidence of this 'rule of care' in our work as researcher-facilitators from our data. We conclude that attention to a 'rule of care' is necessary to support transformation, particularly for vulnerable participants such as Educational Leaders. (As Provided).
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Begutachtung	Peer reviewed
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2025/2/06