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Download full textJohanna Heikka; Riikka Hirvonen; Evelyn Muteweri – Research in Educational Administration & Leadership, 2025
High-quality early childhood education (ECE) is widely regarded as an essential right, with leadership playing a vital role in its delivery. Effective pedagogical leadership significantly enriches children's learning, development, and overall well-being by nurturing collaborative settings and promoting shared decision-making processes. Limited…
Descriptors: Participative Decision Making, Leadership Styles, Instructional Leadership, Early Childhood Education
Direct linkHannele Roponen; Elina Fonsén; Tuulikki Ukkonen-Mikkola; Raisa Ahtiainen – International Journal of Educational Management, 2024
Purpose: This study examines the social organizational structure of one early childhood education (ECE) center in Finland and the relationship between this structure and the roles and the responsibilities of the members of the organization. Design/methodology/approach: The research is a qualitative case study with ethnographic features. Its…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Early Childhood Education, Child Care Centers, Ethnography
Raisa Ahtiainen Ed.; Eija Hanhimäki Ed.; Jaana Leinonen Ed.; Mika Risku Ed.; Ann-Sofie Smeds-Nylund Ed. – Educational Governance Research, 2023
This open access book provides a comprehensive overview and in-depth coverage of contemporary aspects of leadership in the field of education in Finland. It brings together Finnish scholars to critically explore and discuss leadership in education in the context of the Finnish education system and in relation to international discourses around the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Leadership, Education, Leadership Styles
García-Carreño, I. V. – European Educational Researcher, 2021
Distributed Leadership is a conceptual and analytical approach to understanding leadership that is focused on interactions between leaders and those they lead with the goal of driving instructional improvement and improving student outcomes by developing high-quality teaching and an educational culture that enables all students to thrive. This…
Descriptors: Leadership, Power Structure, Participative Decision Making, Bibliometrics
Kiili, Johanna; Larkins, Cath – Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 2018
This paper applies aspects of Bourdieu's conceptual toolkit related to capital, and analyses inter- and intra-generational relations of influence. Applying Bourdieu's concepts to examples of case studies from a children's parliament in Finland, and with reference to an adult resident forum, moments of continuity and disruption in the relatively…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Case Studies, Children, Participation
