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Pictures, Problems and Possibilities: Quality, professionalism and leadership in early

childhood education and care

Jane Murray PhDCentre for Education and Research

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Session Outline

1) Picturing Quality in ECEC

2) Picturing Professionalism in ECEC

3) Picturing Leadership in ECEC

4) Problematising Quality, Professionalism and Leadership in ECEC

5) Possibilities for Quality, Professionalism and Leadership in ECEC

Picturing Quality in ECEC (1)

Goal 4, Target 4.2: By 2030, ensure that all girls and boys have access to quality early childhood development, care and pre-primary education so that they are ready for primary education

EuropeEuropean policy: high quality, affordable and accessible childcare

(EGGE, 2009; EU Thematic Working Part on ECEC, 2014)


How do you picture quality in early childhood education and care?

Quality in ECEC

Picturing Quality in ECEC

Froebel (1838) Montessori (1949)Rousseau (1762)

Structural quality • Class size• Teacher-child ratio• Staff qualifications • Setting size

(Anders, 2015)

Process quality • Context• Interactions • Space and materials

(Anders, 2015; Litjens and Taguma, 2010)


(Wall, Litjens and Taguma, 2015)


Five Perspectives on

Quality in Early

Childhood Programs

• Top Down

• Bottom Up

• Outside-Inside

• Inside

• Outside

Top Down

Bottom Up

Outside-InsideInside

Outside

Katz, 1993

Early Childhood Environment Rating Scale (ECERS)1) Personal Care Routines2) Furnishings & Display for

Children3) Language-Reasoning

Experiences4) Fine and Gross Motor Activities5) Creative Activities6) Social Development7) Adult Needs

(Harms and Clifford, 1980)


Assessing Quality in the Early Years (ECERS-E)(Sylva, Siraj-Blatchford and Taggart, 2003)


• Literacy• Mathematics• Science• Diversity

Caregiver Interaction Scale (Arnett, 1989)


Effective Provision for Pre-School Education (EPPE)Attending a high quality pre-school setting before 3 years until school entry improved • academic and social outcomes for children aged 5, 11 and 14• academic outcomes for children aged 16+

(Taggart et al., 2015)


Process Oriented Monitoring Scale(Laevers, 2000)


Giving autonomySensitivityStimulation

Adult Engagement

Excellence in Early Learning (EEL) Quality Framework(Pascal et al., 1996)


Quality Framework for Early Childhood Education (UNICEF, 2012)


1. Physical learning environment2. Teaching and Learning processes3. Teacher quality4. Curriculum5. School readiness outcomes6. Leadership7. Parent and community

participation


Curriculum and Pedagogy

7thFramework Program -Call Identifier: FP7-SSH-2013-2 Early childhood education and care: promoting quality for individual, social and economic benefits


One size fits all?

Broekhuisen, 2016

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Picturing Professionalism in ECEC (3)

How do you picture professionalism in early childhood education and care?

Professionalism in ECEC

Picturing Professionalism in ECECWhat is a professional?

Picturing Professionalism in ECECWho are the professionals in ECEC?

2.Pre-primary teacher

Primary teacherKindergarten

teacherPreschool teacher

1.Childcare worker

4.Pedagogue3.Family daycareworker

5.Auxiliary staff

OECD, 2011

Picturing Professionalism in ECECCoRe (Urban et al., 2011)

Picturing Professionalism in ECECQualifications

OECD, 2011

Picturing Professionalism in ECECWhy?

Picturing Professionalism in ECEC

UNICEF, 2012

Picturing Professionalism in ECECWhy?

Image courtesy of LEYF, 2014

Picturing Professionalism in ECECWhat do we know?


Pascal et al. (2013)


‘Ours is the profession

of uncertainty’

Malaguzzi, 1988

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Picturing Leadership in ECEC

How do you picture leadership in early childhood education and care?

Leadership in ECEC

Picturing Leadership in ECECSome Leadership Styles

1 2 3 4

O’Sullivan and Chambers, 2014Clark and Murray, 2012

Picturing Leadership in ECECSystem leadership

Sharp et al., 2012

.

Picturing Leadership in ECECBranches of Leadership

Professional skills and attributes

Management skills

Leadership skills

Personal characteristicsand attitudes

Moyles, 2006

Picturing Leadership in ECECWhat does a leader do?

O’Sullivan and Chambers, 2014


Sharp et al., 2012

.


Siraj-Blatchford and Manni, 2007

Session Outline






Picturing Quality in ECEC Quality is… ‘an objective reality consisting of agreed criteria measured in standardised ways that allow generalisability across contexts’

(Siraj-Blatchford and Wong, 1999)

Quality is ‘a philosophical issue ofvalue and dispute’

(Dahlberg et al., 1999: 6)

Image courtesy of LEYF

Problematising Professionalism in ECEC

‘…the more complex things become the more we seem to desire processes of reduction and thus

increase control’ (Hillevi Lenz-Taguchi, 2010:8)

Problematising Leadership in ECEC

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Possibilities for Quality in ECEC

Possibilities for Professionalism in ECEC

Possibilities for Leadership in ECEC

To conclude…



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