“…As a result, articulation of leadership practices and growing leadership capacity at all levels of a centre to promote quality ECEC is more overt. Research suggests that leadership approaches in ECEC aspire to be distributed (Ebbeck & Waniganayake, 2004;Pearce & Sims, 2001;Pound, 2008;, collaborative (Rodd, 2006), transformational ( Burns, 1978;Bass, 1985;Leithwood, 2000;and Bass & Riggio, 2006) and catalytic MacNeill, 2006 andMcDowell Clarke, 2012). The post-modern approach further expands these four areas (Nicholson & Maniates, 2016).…”