Play is crucial to the learning and development of children in the early years. The third
edition of Play in the Early Years is a comprehensive introduction to the theory and practice …

ABSTRACT Overarching the Australian Early Childhood Education and Care sector
currently are the Early Years Learning Framework and the National Quality Standards and …

National reforms introduced into the early childhood education and care sector across
Australia have created a requirement for each service to appoint an 'educational'leader to …

This study reports the understandings of leadership held by 351 Victorian early childhood
leaders (ECLs). Internationally, ECLs are expected to drive quality improvement through …

RAPID CHANGES IN AUSTRALIAN education have intensified the role of early childhood
leaders and led to unprecedented challenges. The Australian Curriculum (ACARA, 2011) …

In this collective article, the authors explore constructions of early childhood practitioners
and how they disconnect and reconnect in a global neo-liberal education policy context. The …

This article contributes to understanding of professionalism in early childhood education and
argues that in working to implement a mandated curriculum framework, professional identity …

This article proposes utilising the theory of practice architectures to uncover and make
explicit the beliefs and implicit theories of early childhood educators, as well as to examine …

Early childhood workforce sustainability is an important issue, with implications for children,
families and national productivity, as well as for educators themselves. Yet, in many national …

Around the world, the professionalism of early childhood education (ECE) has been under
reform. In Finland, the administrative changes of recent years have raised the need to clarify …