Roundtable Discussion

Memo of the Roundtable Discussion (in PDF format)

Presentations (in PDF format)

Manjula Waniganayake: Leadership perspectives from near and far – from Australia and Europe

Panel #1: Norway

• Kjell Age Gottvasli: ECECs as Learning Organizations

• Kari Hoås Moen: External expectations towards Early Childhood Centres as learning arenas for children – consequences for leadership and management

• Yngve Skjæveland: Government Guidance on Leadership and Management of Early Childhood Centres as learning arenas
• Per Tore Granrusten: The Right to Choose

Panel #2: Australia

• Kaye Colmer: Leading for professional development and learning
  
• Doranna Wong: Reconceptualizing Mentoring in Early Childhood Settings: Insights from Singapore
• Anthony Semann: The Flesh of Leadership: a phenomenological reading
  

Panel #3: Norway

• Kjetil Børhaug: Policy consequences of non-governmental service provision in the ECEC sector
• Karin Hognestad: Exploring staff leadership in kindergarten
• Marit Bøe: Developing shadowing in leadership research

Panel #4: Finland

• Eeva Hujala: Contextually defined leadership in child care
• Mervi Eskelinen: Comparative research of professional leadership tasks in Japan and Finland
• Leena Halttunen: Assistant leaders in Finnish day care settings
• Johanna Heikka: The current state of ECE leadership in Finland – Implications for practice and directions for future research