ProjectProject

Developing and sustaining pedagogical leadership in early childhood education and care professionals

Project Information

Year Funded:
2008
Grant (ex GST):
$148,151
Project Status:
Ongoing
Program:
Leadership for Excellence in Learning and Teaching
Project Keywords:
Early childhood, Early childhood education and care, Leadership, Leadership in learning and teaching, Work integrated learning
Project Discipline:
Education and Human Service Professions

Institutions

  • Griffith University (Lead)
  • Deakin University
  • Queensland Health - Early Years Initiative
  • Salvation Army - Communities for Children Loganlea, Waterford West & Kingston

Project Leader

  1. Dr Kym Macfarlane
    k [dot] macfarlane [at] griffith [dot] edu [dot] au

Project Outcome

This project will enhance teaching and learning opportunities for leadership in Early Childhood Education and Care sector. It will address sector needs by developing course content for undergraduate and postgraduate university programs, consolidating Communities of Practice and producing resources for use by staff working within cross-disciplinary early years? settings and who are seeking to enhance qualifications and leadership possibilities

Project Methodology

This project will engage with students, practitioners and professionals from diverse early years contexts.
The aims will be achieved using the bricolage approach which is particularly relevant to analysing new lines of inquiry in order that re-theorising can occur and limitations provided by one theoretical approach are minimised.

This approach will begin to break down silos of practice in order to:

  1. Assist in developing agreed goals and approaches to high quality holistic and integrated practice in the early years based on sound theoretical underpinnings and practice principles;
  2. Develop and enhance communities of practice, comprising individuals who understand the benefits of working together to achieve high quality practice in ECEC;
  3. Develop critical thinking and problem solving;
  4. The project will commence with a conference, followed by the establishment of Communities of Practice using the Circles of Change model.

It will allow for multiple perspectives to be considered and minimises marginalisation of particular knowledge bases or points of view.

 

The information on this project's page was correct at the time of funding. Changes may have occurred since.

The information on this project's page was updated 3 April, 2009.

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