The Professional Leadership and Action Research Training Model: Supporting early childhood leadership

Stamopoulos, Elizabeth

doi:10.1177/183693911504000406

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“…Considerations of internationally implementation of the results of this research study for other Asian countries, such as Australia (Stamopoulos 2015), the Philippines (Morales 2016) and Singapore (Hairon 2017), an appropriate model of action research in those locations would be the first requirement. This model would be used to support teachers to focus on ongoing self-regulated learning through reflective practice and to sustain the action research model within that country's teacher development.…”

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confidence: 99%

Professional changes of primary science teachers: experience on collaborative action research in Thailand

Kijkuakul

2019

Asia Pac. Sci. Educ.

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This article focuses on impacts of collaborative action research with a spiral process of planning, acting, observing, and reflecting that had been used as a strategy to promote teacher professional development in science education of Thailand. With the school principals' support, three primary science teachers' instructional practices are the subject of individual case studies. A range of qualitative methods and data sources including participant observations, individual and collective interviews, teacher and student artifacts were adapted to elicit evidence related to change of teaching practices and perceptions on action research activities. The case study analysis showed that collaborative action research enabled the primary science teachers to change their teaching practices within the classroom conditions. Factors that were identified as important to these changes included: 1) the primary teachers needed school leadership that powerfully attends to their professional development activities; and 2) the teachers needed a university coach to collaboratively reflect and suggest how to teach in the particular subject i.e. science. In the case of a primary teacher who, having no qualifications (i.e., certification-related teacher preparation) in science teaching, additionally needed a community of professional teachers willing to collaboratively reflect on classroom experiences for better inquiry into science teaching practices. As a means to sustain the changes in this educational context, implementing the collaborative action research while providing opportunities for parents to observe and reflect upon teachers' classroom teaching practices was also found to be important.

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Professional changes of primary science teachers: experience on collaborative action research in Thailand

Kijkuakul

2019

Asia Pac. Sci. Educ.

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“…Thus, they left aside most of the indicators of ECE quality as stated by the ACEI (2011) and OECD (2017). The IACC relies on studies indicating that parental and community engagement is an increasingly important policy lever to enhance healthy child development and learning (OECD, 2017; Stamopoulos, 2015). Concentrating on one indicator as a basis for improving daycare quality while ignoring others raises the question regarding its potential contribution to daycare centers improvement.…”

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“…This ecological approach was developed by Bronfenbrenner (1979), who coined the term ‘ecology’ in the context of human development. This approach implies that the children’s development is influenced by the quality of the interaction between the physical, economic, social, emotional and cultural environment in which they grow, and their needs and abilities at a certain point in time (Stamopoulos, 2015). Families and communities play a central role and bear most of the costs of providing the supportive relationships and positive learning experiences that young children need for healthy development (Shonkoff, 2010).…”

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‘Sowing the seeds of community’: Daycare managers participating in a community approach project

Achituv¹,

Hertzog²

2019

Educational Management Administration & Leadership

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This paper is based on a study of daycare center managers participating in a project aimed at changing the communal approach in early childhood education (ECE) centers. The project was implemented by the ECE system of Israel’s Association of Community Centers for ages birth to three, based on the Ecological Systems Theory (Bronfenbrenner, 1979). The study aimed at learning about the managers’ views and attitudes toward the project, expanding knowledge in the sphere of ECE management and proposing relevant methods for policy improvement. The study applied qualitative methodology and was based on in-depth interviews with managers who participated in the first year of the project, and on observations at the daycare centers and on the project’s implementation process. The findings reveal that the managers are influenced in various ways, by the complex economic and organizational reality of their workplace. The position of the daycare managers as responsible for both implementing the project’s policies and for managing the caregivers creates a complex identity informed by ambivalent attitudes toward the system and the project itself. As ECE for ages birth to three is a conspicuous subject on international public agendas, this study may help ECE policymakers improve education systems by developing solid communal policies.

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“…For example, an Australian study by Stamopoulos (2015) developed an approach to leadership development though the Professional Learning Action Model (PLAR). The model, comprising professional development days, action research, action learning and networking, resulted in participants’ improved perceptions of individual leadership strength (Stamopoulos, 2015). Additionally, the development of individuals’ leadership capacity through reflective inquiry was explored in two research studies.…”

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Leadership emergence and development: Organizations shaping leading in early childhood education

Gibbs¹

2020

Educational Management Administration & Leadership

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Early childhood education (ECE) effects positive outcomes for children, but outcomes depend upon the quality of the program with which children engage. Program quality is positively influenced by effective leadership; yet we do not fully understand how effective leadership emerges and develops within ECE sites. This lack of knowledge potentially compromises the development of effective leadership and, subsequently, a child’s right to high-quality ECE. This paper, therefore, contributes to the field of research on ECE leadership development by describing a qualitative Australian study that investigated leadership cultivation. The mini-ethnographic case study examined the emergence and development of leadership in three high-quality, diversely governed ECE settings. Findings of the study suggest the practice of leading is foundational for positional leadership roles and is enabled by the practice architectures of an organization. Practice architectures comprise cultural-discursive, material-economic and social-political arrangements. Arrangements, found within organizations, included cultures of trust, use of professional knowledge and language, collaborative development of philosophy, democratic allocation of resources, sharing of power and openness to activism, disruption and creativity. Such arrangements play an important role in the emergence and development of leading and therefore offer organizations alternative ways to consider leadership cultivation.

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The Professional Leadership and Action Research Training Model: Supporting early childhood leadership

Cited by 7 publications

References 12 publications

Professional changes of primary science teachers: experience on collaborative action research in Thailand

Professional changes of primary science teachers: experience on collaborative action research in Thailand

‘Sowing the seeds of community’: Daycare managers participating in a community approach project

Leadership emergence and development: Organizations shaping leading in early childhood education

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