澳大利亚幼儿劳动力政策中的领导力：沉默与模糊错失良机

IF 1.6 4区教育学 Q2 EDUCATION & EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH

Australasian Journal of Early Childhood Pub Date : 2023-11-24 DOI:10.1177/18369391231202841

Marie White

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本文探讨了澳大利亚《国家儿童教育与保育劳动力战略》（ACECQA，2021 年）是如何解决领导力问题的。在幼儿教育与保育（ECEC）部门面临前所未有的劳动力压力之际，《劳动力战略》的出台受到了广泛欢迎。然而，仔细研究发现，该战略似乎并没有将领导者作为幼儿教育和保育队伍中的一个独特群体加以关注。考虑到领导力对于留住和维持幼儿教育工作者的核心作用毋庸置疑，这种缺乏关注的现象值得注意。首先，本文阐述了目前人们对幼儿保育和教育领导力的认识。然后，在所考虑的政策中，领导力是如何被构建为一个与质量和能力相关的问题的。接着，讨论了该战略在如何解决领导者的留任及其福利问题上的沉默和模糊之处。最后，我们认为，作为幼儿保育和教育工作队伍的一个独特子集，我们需要对领导者的经历有更多的了解。

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Leadership in Australia’s early childhood workforce policy: Silences and ambiguities as missed opportunities

This paper explores how leadership is addressed within Australia’s National Children’s Education and Care Workforce Strategy (ACECQA, 2021). The Workforce Strategy has been widely welcomed, arriving at a time of unprecedented workforce pressures in the early childhood education and care (ECEC) sector. Yet, on close examination there appears an absence of focus on leaders as a distinct group within the ECEC workforce. Considering leadership is unequivocally central to retaining and sustaining early childhood educators, this absence of focus is noteworthy. First, the paper unpacks what is currently known about ECEC leadership. Then, how leadership in the policies under consideration is constructed as a problem in relation to quality and capability. Next, silences and ambiguities in how the strategy addresses the retention of leaders and their wellbeing is discussed. Ultimately it is argued that we need more understanding of the experiences of leaders as a distinct subset of the ECEC workforce.

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Australasian Journal of Early Childhood EDUCATION & EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH-

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期刊介绍： The Australasian Journal of Early Childhood (AJEC) is Australasia’s foremost scholarly journal and the world’s longest-running major journal within the early childhood education and care sector. Published quarterly, AJEC offers evidence-based articles that are designed to impart new information and encourage the critical exchange of ideas among early childhood practitioners, academics and students. AJEC is peer reviewed by leading early childhood education and care academics, against quality-assurance guidelines to ensure that all articles promote best practice and disseminate high-quality information in the early childhood education and care sector.