Distributing leadership in a day care setting
The latest leadership theories require leadership to be distributed, but there is little evidence of how the distribution is made in practice, particularly in the context of early childhood education. This article describes leadership in two day care organizations in which the organizational struct...
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Early Childhood Education Association Finland
2016-08-01
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| description | The latest leadership theories require leadership to be distributed, but there is little evidence of how the distribution is made in practice, particularly in the context of early childhood education. This article describes leadership in two day care organizations in which the organizational structure was different than the traditional one. One organization comprised four day care units and the other had five units. According to the findings, leadership was implemented in the spirit of distributed leadership. The staff and the day care centre director in co-operation took responsibility for their organization. The relationship between the director and the staff was interactive and there was readiness to share the tasks and duties of the director. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-599388dc21ab47698e3318b3f01282882022-12-22T02:19:07ZengEarly Childhood Education Association FinlandJournal of Early Childhood Education Research2323-74142016-08-0151Distributing leadership in a day care settingLeena Halttunen0University of Jyväskylä, Finland The latest leadership theories require leadership to be distributed, but there is little evidence of how the distribution is made in practice, particularly in the context of early childhood education. This article describes leadership in two day care organizations in which the organizational structure was different than the traditional one. One organization comprised four day care units and the other had five units. According to the findings, leadership was implemented in the spirit of distributed leadership. The staff and the day care centre director in co-operation took responsibility for their organization. The relationship between the director and the staff was interactive and there was readiness to share the tasks and duties of the director.https://journal.fi/jecer/article/view/114048early childhood educationleadershipdistributed leadershipdistributed organization |
| spellingShingle | Leena Halttunen Distributing leadership in a day care setting Journal of Early Childhood Education Research early childhood education leadership distributed leadership distributed organization |
| title | Distributing leadership in a day care setting |
| title_full | Distributing leadership in a day care setting |
| title_fullStr | Distributing leadership in a day care setting |
| title_full_unstemmed | Distributing leadership in a day care setting |
| title_short | Distributing leadership in a day care setting |
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| topic | early childhood education leadership distributed leadership distributed organization |
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