Final Report : Developing and Sustaining Pedagogical Leadership in Early Childhood Education and Care Professionals.
Final report from a project which aimed to enhance the learning and teaching opportunities in higher education to build leadership capacity and sustainability of transdisciplinary practices with early childhood education and care professionals. The project provided a space where academics and profes...
| Institutions: | Griffith University Victoria University |
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Australian Learning and Teaching Council (ALTC)
2011
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| Online Access: | /resources/LE8_823_Macfarlane_Report_2011.pdf |
| Summary: | Final report from a project which aimed to enhance the learning and teaching opportunities in higher education to build leadership capacity and sustainability of transdisciplinary practices with early childhood education and care professionals. The project provided a space where academics and professionals have begun to share knowledge and experience around transdisciplinary practice and what it means to the future training needs of the sector. A formal roundtable (across Queensland and Victoria) and the establishment of a reference group to inform the project team, were instrumental in the development of a valuable learning and teaching resource for use both with the sector and in higher education courses. The project built on notions that participation, professional development, critical reflection and critical thinking about disciplinary practices, need to be undertaken by all members of an organisation, so that leadership capacity in an organisation or discipline can be fully utilised. A model of professional learning was developed and shaped by the concept of open source learning, and has culminated in the development of a free on-line website. The Early Childhood Care and Education: Developing and Sustaining Pedagogical Leadership website (www.ecceleadership.org.au) aims to stimulate thinking in relation to working across the early years with a focus on integrated practice. Its selection of topics is underpinned by a focus on leadership and transdisciplinary practice to lead and influence the development of practice in the early years. The project team sought to devise a professional development strategy to support Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC) professionals to develop their leadership capacity, thereby increasing their confidence about how their own knowledge, understandings and skills might contribute to the design and implementation of integrated services in ECEC. Integrated practice in the early years occurs in practice settings where disciplines of early childhood education and health care and community services, work together to support children and families. |
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| ISBN: | 9780987198303 9780987198303 |
