Educational leadership in early childhood education : Participant vulnerability and a ‘rule of care’
Journal article
Henderson, Linda, Nuttall, Joce, Wood, Elizabeth and Martin, Jenny. (2023). Educational leadership in early childhood education : Participant vulnerability and a ‘rule of care’. Journal of Early Childhood Research. 22(2), pp. 297-312. https://doi.org/10.1177/1476718X231210641
Authors | Henderson, Linda, Nuttall, Joce, Wood, Elizabeth and Martin, Jenny |
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Abstract | There is considerable literature describing the use of Change Laboratory as a simultaneous research and intervention methodology in workplace settings. However, there is limited literature describing Change Laboratory from the researcher-facilitator perspective. This paper examines the ethical dimensions of Change Laboratory from this perspective and specifically how a ‘rule of care’ became a conscious rule. The context is a series of Change Laboratories implemented with Centre Directors and Educational Leaders from early childhood education and care centres in Darwin and Melbourne, Australia. Based on our analysis we attribute the emergence of this rule to a particular vulnerability of the participants: that they were all recruited from centres that had been publicly designated as Working Towards National Quality Standard requirements for quality early childhood education and care practices. We present evidence of this ‘rule of care’ in our work as researcher-facilitators from our data. We conclude that attention to a ‘rule of care’ is necessary to support transformation, particularly for vulnerable participants such as Educational Leaders. |
Keywords | change laboratory; early childhood education and care; educational leadership; matters of care; rule of care |
Year | 01 Jan 2023 |
Journal | Journal of Early Childhood Research |
Journal citation | 22 (2), pp. 297-312 |
Publisher | Sage Publications Ltd. (UK) |
ISSN | 1476-718X |
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) | https://doi.org/10.1177/1476718X231210641 |
Web address (URL) | https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/1476718X231210641 |
Open access | Published as ‘gold’ (paid) open access |
Research or scholarly | Research |
Page range | 297-312 |
Publisher's version | License File Access Level Open |
Output status | Published |
Publication dates | |
Online | 05 Dec 2023 |
Publication process dates | |
Accepted | 2023 |
Deposited | 28 Jun 2024 |
ARC Funded Research | This output has been funded, wholly or partially, under the Australian Research Council Act 2001 |
Grant ID | DP180100281 |
Additional information | © The Author(s) 2023 |
This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits non-commercial use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access pages (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage). | |
This work was supported by the Australian Research Council [DP180100281]. | |
Place of publication | United Kingdom |
https://acuresearchbank.acu.edu.au/item/90q83/educational-leadership-in-early-childhood-education-participant-vulnerability-and-a-rule-of-care
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