ERIC Number: EJ1438699
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2024-Sep
Pages: 14
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ISSN: ISSN-1836-9391
EISSN: EISSN-0312-5033
"I Am the Pilot, but I Need a Committed Crew": Researching Early Childhood Education and Care Leadership by Using the Actantial Model of Power
Kirsi-Marja Heikkinen; Raisa Ahtiainen; Arto Kallioniemi; Elina Fonsén
Australasian Journal of Early Childhood, v49 n3 p207-220 2024
Leadership in Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC) is changing globally. We investigated ECEC leadership and leaders' interpretations of power and its realization between leaders and followers, a little researched topic in the field. Our theoretical framework consists of ECEC contextual knowledge and prior research attached with Michel Foucault's and Mary Parker Follet's perceptions of power as positive, relational and discursive microphenomenon. Our essay data (N = 46) was written by ECEC center leaders before participating in educational leaders in-service training. The method of analysis was Greimas' actantial analysis (1979), which enabled us to build two actantial models of leaders' perspectives and relation to power. Findings indicate that power is a leader-centered, unstructured and hiding concept needing conscious reframing and integration of positional and non-positional leader roles in the community.
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Leadership, Power Structure, Attitudes, Foreign Countries, Leadership Styles, Organizational Culture, Cooperation
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Early Childhood Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Finland
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