Description
Book Synopsis"This book has the potential to do for nurseries what Michael Fullan's work did for schools, to re-affirm the moral heart of leadership. Often omitted from accounts of early years professionalism, an attitude of care is advocated as the central characteristic of leaders. At the same time, Clark and Murray challenge the traditional explanation for this attitude amongst practitioners in terms of female nurture, presenting it instead in non-gendered terms as a function of ethical character and commitment. With their concepts of catalytic agency, reflective integrity and relational interdependence, the authors provide an intellectual justification for something that many practitioners have long known intuitively, that early years leadership calls for a marriage of both mind and heart."
Dr Geoff Taggart, Lecturer in Early Years, University of Reading, UKâœThis book makes an innovative contribution to the discussion and debate about leadership in early years. The new conc
Table of Contents
Part One: Reframing Leadership
A paradigm for leadership
The context for leadership in the early years
A new paradigm for early years leadership
Part Two: Leadership Profiles
Believing you can make a difference: inner catalytic agency
‘Finding it on your way’: inner reflective integrity
Enthused and empowered: inner relational interdependence
Letting go of ownership: the diffusion of catalytic agency
Reflective Integrity: a diffused social competence
Relational interdependence: diffusing leadership in community
Part Three: Developing leadership
Leadership within: a framework for development
Glossary
References
Index
