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Leadership and Management in the Early Years: From Principles to Practice Caroline Jones

Leadership and Management in the Early Years: From Principles to Practice By Caroline Jones

Leadership and Management in the Early Years: From Principles to Practice by Caroline Jones


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This book encourages practitioners to recognise their active involvement in leadership and management in relation to their work as team leader or team member, and in their work with parents and other professionals, to ensure appropriate and effective provision for young children.

Leadership and Management in the Early Years: From Principles to Practice Summary

Leadership and Management in the Early Years: From Principles to Practice by Caroline Jones

Early childhood practitioners are often reluctant to see themselves as leaders and managers. However, all those who work with young children and their families, whatever their level of experience and competence, have to undertake both of these roles on a daily basis.

This book encourages practitioners to recognise their active involvement in leadership and management in relation to their work as team leader or team member, and in their work with parents and other professionals, to ensure appropriate and effective provision for young children.

The authors identify a number of key principles involved in effective early years leadership and management, which focus on the idea that:

  • Leadership is about influencing others to improve and enhance children's care, learning and development
  • Leadership is only effective if it develops the leadership of others by supporting a team or group in meeting their declared aims or vision
  • Leadership is ultimately distributed, shared and dispersed in early childhood settings
These principles are supported by a detailed exploration of the statutory demands made on practitioners working with young children and their families, and reference to relevant literature drawn from both early childhood studies and leadership theories.

As well as providing guidance on the roles, responsibilities and tasks facing early childhood leaders, the book features a number of case studies and practical tasks, giving life to concepts and ideas and enabling readers to apply theories and policies to their own work settings. Additional activities at the end of each chapter further support practitioners in fulfilling their leadership and management roles in practice.

Leadership and Management in the Early Years is an essential text for early years and early childhood studies students as well as practitioners particularly those who are aiming for Early Years Professional Status.

About Caroline Jones

Caroline Jones is course leader for the Early Years Foundation Degree at the Institute of Education, University of Warwick, UK. She is Director of a group of early childhood settings based on school sites in the Midlands.

Linda Pound is an independent Education Consultant providing training and support in a wide variety of early years settings, local authorities and other training providers in the UK.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements

1. Introduction: leadership, principles and practice
2. Leadership, management and reflective practice
3. Leader of leaders: building a team culture
4. The roles and responsibilities of leaders
5. Leadership, policy development and welfare requirements
6. Perspectives on leading and assessing the curriculum
7. The role of the leader in supporting learning and development
8. Leadership in a multi-agency context
9. Leadership and parental involvement
10. An inspector calls: leadership, evaluation and inspection
11. Leadership: where next?

Appendices
References
Index

Additional information

GOR005677786
9780335222469
0335222463
Leadership and Management in the Early Years: From Principles to Practice by Caroline Jones
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Open University Press
20080316
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