May 3rd, 2023
ILRF EC 4th book is now available!
Fonsén, E., Ahtiainen, R., Heikkinen, K-M. E., Heikonen, L., Strehmel, P., & Tamir, E. (Eds.) (2023). Early Childhood Education Leadership in Times of Crisis: International Studies During the COVID-19 Pandemic. Verlag Barbara Budrich. https://doi.org/10.2307/jj.2430379
November 8th, 2022
ILRF EC 4th book is coming soon!
Estimated publishing date 2022/2023.
November 8th, 2022
News from ILRF meeting in Azerbaijan
August 22nd, 2022
ILRF meeting in Azerbaijan
International Leadership Research Forum – Early Childhood (LRF EC) Conference will be hosted at ADA University. ILRF EC Conference was hosted at ADA University 29th – 31th August 2022.
August 25th, 2022: See conference agenda
November 12th, 2020
ILRF meeting in Azerbaijan now in 2022
Due to uncertain global and local conditions, the ILRF meeting in Azerbaijan scheduled for September 2021 is postponed to year 2022.
May 5th, 2020
The 8th ILRFEC takes place in Baku, Azerbaijan in September 2021
The 8th ILRFEC meeting will take place at ADA University, Baku, Azerbaijan 23rd – 24th September 2021.
The organizer: ADA University, School of Education, www.ada.edu.az
Address: Ahmadbey Aghaoghlu str. 11
Baku, Azerbaijan, AZ1008
Contact person: Ulviyya Mikayilova, umikailova@ada.edu.az
More information and an abstract call will be issued in the fall of 2020.
Welcome!
April 3rd, 2020
International Leadership Research Forum and the Editors are happy to announce the fifth ILRF publication focusing on the different aspects of Leadership in the context of Early Childhood Education:
‘Global Perspectives of Leadership in Early Childhood Education and Care’
Editors: Dr Matshediso Rebecca Modise, Prof Nkidi Caroline Phatudi, Dr Phala, Dr Johanna Heikka and Dr Elina Fonsén
August 19th, 2019
ILRFEC third free access publication is published!
Petra Strehmel, Johanna Heikka, Eeva Hujala, Jillian Rodd & Manjula Waniganayake (Eds.). (2019). Leadership in Early Education in Times of Change. Research from five Continents.
The book can be downloaded from our site!
May 15th, 2019
The 7th ILRFEC takes place in Pretoria, South Africa, in September 2019
The 7th ILRFEC meeting will take place at University of South Africa, Pretoria, South Africa 25th – 27th September 2019.
Welcome!
June 4th, 2018
The 3rd ILRFEC-monograph will be published in December 2018
The 6th International Leadership Research Forum Early Childhood (ILRFEC) took place in at the University of applied sciences in Hamburg, Germany from 3rd to 6th of September 2017 with 50 participants. Most of the papers of the conference will be published in the ILRFEC-monograph #3:
Petra Strehmel, Johanna Heikka, Eeva Hujala, Jillian Rodd, Manjula Waniganayake (Eds.) Leadership in Early Education in Times of Change. Research from five Continents.
The collection brings together the latest work of researchers from Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe and North America focusing on early childhood leadership matters. It covers different aspects of leadership in early education: professional education and development, identity and leadership strategies as well as governance and leadership under different frame conditions. National perspectives are added by international comparisons.
This book will be published in 2019. A paperback will be available from Columbia University Press.
September 1st, 2017
Articles of ILRFEC second publication
Manjula Waniganayake, Jillian Rodd & Leanne Gibbs (Eds.). (2015). Thinking and Learning about Leadership: Early childhood research from Australia, Finland and Norway
can be downloaded from our site!
March 3rd, 2017
The 6th ILRFEC – CALL FOR PAPERS
6th International Leadership Research Forum Early Childhood (ILRFEC) 3rd – 5th (6th) September 2017 at the Hamburg University of Applied Sciences in Germany Alexanderstr. 1 in 20099 Hamburg.
September 11th, 2015
The 5th ILRFEC – CALL FOR PAPERS EXTENDED!
Call for papers for 5th ILRFEC meeting at University of Eastern Finland in Savonlinna, Finland 9th-11th December 2015 is extended to September 20th, 2015.
March 9th, 2015
Quality Childhood Conference International 2015 (QCCI 2015) at The Hong Kong Institute of Education (HKIEd) on 18-19 June 2015
All ILRFEC members are invited to participate to the Quality Childhood conference on June 2015. More information and call for papers >>
November 13th, 2014
The 5th ILRFEC meeting at University of Eastern Finland in Savonlinna, Finland 9th-11th December 2015
More information and call for papers >>
August 12th, 2014
Conference abstracts and presentations
Conference abstracts and presentations can be found from Conferences-menu >> choose conference.
June 10th-12th, 2014
ILRFEC meeting in Trondheim, June 2014
The ILRFEC meeting will take place at Queen Maud University College of Early Childhood Education (QMUC) in Trondheim, Norway 10th -12th June 2014.
The aim of the ILRF is to gather people involved in early childhood leadership research, and to create an arena for presenting leadership research.
Articles of Researching Leadership in Early Childhood Education can be downloaded from our site!
December 9th-12th, 2013
An exciting leadership event is happening in Sydney on the 11th of December!
Macquarie University and Community Child Care Cooperative NSW has come together to host a research symposium based on current research on early childhood leadership matters.
Some of the most influential early childhood leadership scholars are amongst the presenters.This is a unique opportunity to listen to these scholars about their current research. It is the first time that so many early childhood scholars focusing on leadership matters are coming together in Australia.
August 26th, 2013
ILRFEC publication out now!
Our publication Researching Leadership in Early Childhood Education is now available! For more information please click here.