Leadership in Early Childhood - Softcover

Rodd, Jillian

Softcover

ISBN 10: 033524680X ISBN 13: 9780335246809

Publisher: Open University Press, 2013

Synopsis

Leadership in Early Childhood is a practical resource for early childhood practitioners who want to understand how to create successful childcare and early education settings.

Leadership in the early years has moved on in the way it is organised, and this fourth edition has been fully revised and updated to reflect the changes affecting leaders in early childhood. This rapid change in the field over the past few years includes moves to professionalise the workforce generally, and this edition recognizes the implications of these developments and revisits some of the concepts and messages.

Praised for its excellent overview of early years leadership, accessible writing style and clear links between theory and practice, the fourth edition also includes:

• Thorough discussion of the leader’s role in moving towards leading/best practice.
• Reconceptualised coverage of team building to consider working collaboratively as a team at service level, multi disciplinary teams and integrated service provision through multi agency working.
• A chapter which considers the essential characteristics of leadership in terms of personal qualities, skills and timing related to effective leadership.

About this title

About the Author:

Jillian Rodd is an educational and developmental psychologist. She was a senior academic at the University of Plymouth and also at the University of Melbourne and has published widely in the early childhood field throughout the world.

About this edition

• Publisher: Open University Press
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 033524680X
• ISBN 13: 9780335246809
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 4
• Number of pages: 304