Tapping into Leadership in Early Childhood Development Centers: Learning from the Lived Experiences of Principals in South African Townships

Leadership is one of the critical drivers of educational institutions and has been overwhelmingly researched across countries. However, there is little with regards to early childhood development centers in the scholarship of educational leadership. South Africa has an assortment of early childhood...

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Autores principales:	Sibonelo Blose, Evelyn Muteweri
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Publicado:	SAGE Publishing 2021
Materias:	History of scholarship and learning. The humanities AZ20-999 Social Sciences H
Acceso en línea:	https://doaj.org/article/0e7e8e8ecb42494385c3bcd0bf78fc51
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:0e7e8e8ecb42494385c3bcd0bf78fc512021-12-02T02:04:58ZTapping into Leadership in Early Childhood Development Centers: Learning from the Lived Experiences of Principals in South African Townships2158-244010.1177/21582440211061395https://doaj.org/article/0e7e8e8ecb42494385c3bcd0bf78fc512021-11-01T00:00:00Zhttps://doi.org/10.1177/21582440211061395https://doaj.org/toc/2158-2440Leadership is one of the critical drivers of educational institutions and has been overwhelmingly researched across countries. However, there is little with regards to early childhood development centers in the scholarship of educational leadership. South Africa has an assortment of early childhood development centers (ECD) ranging from fully registered and well-resourced centers in affluent areas to less regulated and poorly resourced community-based centers in townships, informal settlements and rural areas. In these centers, there are individuals performing a pivotal role of leading and managing the institutions. In this paper, we hone in on these individuals, specifically in a township setting, whom we refer to as ECD center principals. By means of narrative inquiry methodology, we solicited and interpreted the lived experiences of selected ECD center principals to garner an understanding of what it means to lead an ECD center in a township setting. The paper makes two broad contributions, namely, ECD center principals’ self-cognitions and their experiences of leading centers in townships.Sibonelo BloseEvelyn MuteweriSAGE PublishingarticleHistory of scholarship and learning. The humanitiesAZ20-999Social SciencesHENSAGE Open, Vol 11 (2021)
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description	Leadership is one of the critical drivers of educational institutions and has been overwhelmingly researched across countries. However, there is little with regards to early childhood development centers in the scholarship of educational leadership. South Africa has an assortment of early childhood development centers (ECD) ranging from fully registered and well-resourced centers in affluent areas to less regulated and poorly resourced community-based centers in townships, informal settlements and rural areas. In these centers, there are individuals performing a pivotal role of leading and managing the institutions. In this paper, we hone in on these individuals, specifically in a township setting, whom we refer to as ECD center principals. By means of narrative inquiry methodology, we solicited and interpreted the lived experiences of selected ECD center principals to garner an understanding of what it means to lead an ECD center in a township setting. The paper makes two broad contributions, namely, ECD center principals’ self-cognitions and their experiences of leading centers in townships.
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title	Tapping into Leadership in Early Childhood Development Centers: Learning from the Lived Experiences of Principals in South African Townships
title_short	Tapping into Leadership in Early Childhood Development Centers: Learning from the Lived Experiences of Principals in South African Townships
title_full	Tapping into Leadership in Early Childhood Development Centers: Learning from the Lived Experiences of Principals in South African Townships
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Tapping into Leadership in Early Childhood Development Centers: Learning from the Lived Experiences of Principals in South African Townships

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