Views from the Inside: Roles of Deputy Directors in Early Childhood Education in Finland

This study explored the perceptions of deputy directors about their leadership in Early Childhood Education (ECE) centres in Finland. Our aim was to look beyond task distribution and understand how deputy directors enacted leadership with their colleagues. Six deputy directors employed in one munici...

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Autores principales:	Leena Halttunen, Manjula Waniganayake
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Publicado:	MDPI AG 2021
Materias:	early childhood leadership deputy directors pedagogical leadership Education L
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:0202a4cce65849dd8061be420c1f31c42021-11-25T17:23:57ZViews from the Inside: Roles of Deputy Directors in Early Childhood Education in Finland10.3390/educsci111107512227-7102https://doaj.org/article/0202a4cce65849dd8061be420c1f31c42021-11-01T00:00:00Zhttps://www.mdpi.com/2227-7102/11/11/751https://doaj.org/toc/2227-7102This study explored the perceptions of deputy directors about their leadership in Early Childhood Education (ECE) centres in Finland. Our aim was to look beyond task distribution and understand how deputy directors enacted leadership with their colleagues. Six deputy directors employed in one municipality in Finland participated in this study. Interviewed individually, the participants discussed how they themselves perceived being in a leadership position and what their leadership looked like in practice. The emphasis they placed on the various relationships highlight the importance of paying attention to the relational dynamics amongst staff within a centre, taking into account both formal and informal authority. Given the increasing global interest in understanding leadership enactment within ECE centres, and its connection with quality service provision, knowledge of the positional leadership roles of deputy directors is of importance to the ECE sector. This is one of the first studies dedicated to exploring the work of ECE deputy directors.Leena HalttunenManjula WaniganayakeMDPI AGarticleearly childhoodleadershipdeputy directorspedagogical leadershipEducationLENEducation Sciences, Vol 11, Iss 751, p 751 (2021)
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description	This study explored the perceptions of deputy directors about their leadership in Early Childhood Education (ECE) centres in Finland. Our aim was to look beyond task distribution and understand how deputy directors enacted leadership with their colleagues. Six deputy directors employed in one municipality in Finland participated in this study. Interviewed individually, the participants discussed how they themselves perceived being in a leadership position and what their leadership looked like in practice. The emphasis they placed on the various relationships highlight the importance of paying attention to the relational dynamics amongst staff within a centre, taking into account both formal and informal authority. Given the increasing global interest in understanding leadership enactment within ECE centres, and its connection with quality service provision, knowledge of the positional leadership roles of deputy directors is of importance to the ECE sector. This is one of the first studies dedicated to exploring the work of ECE deputy directors.
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Views from the Inside: Roles of Deputy Directors in Early Childhood Education in Finland

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