Henderson, L. orcid.org/0000-0002-0533-6457, Nuttall, J., Wood, E. orcid.org/0000-0002-1027-1520 et al. (1 more author) (2024) Educational leadership in early childhood education: Participant vulnerability and a ‘rule of care’. Journal of Early Childhood Research, 22 (2). pp. 297-312. ISSN 1476-718X
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.
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Copyright, Publisher and 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). |
Keywords: | Education Systems; Education; Pediatric; Quality Education |
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Institution: | The University of Sheffield |
Academic Units: | The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Social Sciences (Sheffield) > School of Education (Sheffield) |
Funding Information: | Funder Grant number Australian Research Council DP180100281 |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Sheffield |
Date Deposited: | 19 Jan 2024 15:08 |
Last Modified: | 20 May 2024 10:44 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | SAGE Publications |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1177/1476718x231210641 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:207802 |