Efnisyfirlit

• Copyright
• Foreword
• Preface and acknowledgements
• Introduction
• Part I Deconstructing leadership
  • 1 Unravelling leadership in the early childhood sector
    • Defining the challenge of leadership
    • Differences between leadership and management
    • Leadership in early childhood
    • Why does leadership work in some situations and not others?
    • Bringing it together
  • 2 The personal qualities of leaders in early childhood
    • Attributes associated with leaders
    • The influence of personal qualities on followers
    • The role of gender stereotypes
    • Who follows the leader?
    • Who is a leader in early childhood services?
    • Who becomes a leader in early childhood?
    • Bringing it together
  • 3 Theories, models and styles of leadership
    • Theories of leadership
    • Models of leadership
    • Styles of leadership
    • Bringing it together
• Part II Leadership in practice
  • 4 Leading through communication: Meeting others’ needs
    • Emotional intelligence and leadership
    • Communication skills for effective leadership
    • Skills for meeting others’ needs
    • Communication in culturally diverse contexts
    • Bringing it together
  • 5 Leading through communication: Meeting personal needs
    • Appropriate self-assertion
    • ‘I’ messages
    • Conflict resolution
    • Delegation
    • Time management
    • Stress management
    • Information technology and electronic communication
    • Bringing it together
  • 6 Leading conflict resolution: From discord to accord
    • Sources of conflict within early childhood services
    • Common responses to discord
    • Constructive approaches to addressing conflict
    • Mediation: From discord to accord
    • Bringing it together
  • 7 Leading decision-making: Transforming vision into action
    • Transforming vision into action through decision-making
    • Thinking styles for leadership decisions
    • Types of leadership decisions
    • Methods of decision-making
    • Professional ethics and decision-making
    • Guidelines for leading decision-making
    • Problem-solving
    • Bringing it together
  • 8 Leading collaboratively: Cultivating collective responsibility
    • Collaborating to achieve quality
    • Working as a collaborative team in a service
    • Working in multi-disciplinary teams
    • Working in multi-agency services
    • Benefits of professional diversity in teams
    • Processes and stages of team development
    • Collaborative leadership and collective responsibility
    • A framework for team-building
    • Recruiting and selecting team members
    • Bringing it together
  • 9 Leading professional development: Supervision, mentoring and coaching
    • The leader as a supervisor
    • Supervising educators as adult learners
    • The leader as a mentor
    • The leader as a coach
    • The deputy: A special opportunity for leadership
    • Bringing it together
  • 10 Leading in changing times
    • Types of change
    • Change and the individual
    • Sources of resistance to change
    • Converting resistance into commitment
    • Preparing to implement change
    • Coping with change
    • Leading change
    • Features of successful change
    • Bringing it together
• Part III Special responsibilities of early childhood leaders
  • 11 Leading research: Moving quality forward
    • Research and its benefits for early childhood
    • Attitudes to research in early childhood
    • Encouraging a research culture
    • Action research for critical inquiry
    • Reflective practice
    • Bringing it together
  • 12 Leading partnerships: Engaging families and communities
    • Engaging families in partnership
    • Engaging families in early childhood services
    • The challenge of engaging families
    • Advocacy: Engaging communities with the early childhood sector
    • Participation in professional associations
    • Networking
    • Research and writing
    • Becoming politically aware and active
    • Bringing it together
  • 13 Leading ethical practice
    • Morality and ethics in leadership
    • Leading ethical practice in early childhood services
    • Promoting and protecting children’s rights
    • Ensuring quality services that affirm children’s rights
    • Ethical administration of early childhood services
    • The code of ethics and courageous ethical choices
    • Bringing it together
  • 14 Leading for succession: Building leadership capacity
    • Professional preparation for building capacity
    • Approaches to building leadership capacity
    • Distributed leadership for building capacity
    • Planning for succession
    • Bringing it together
  • 15 Postscript: An aide-memoire for aspiring leaders in early childhood
• References
• Author index
• Subject index

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