Anderson, Babs and Cook, Tina (2020) Developing Early Years leadership: Examining the practice of facilitation in and through action research. Educational Action Research. ISSN Print ISSN: 0965-0792 Online ISSN: 1747-5074
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Abstract
This article examines the use of first-person action research to improve the facilitation of a continuing professional development (CPD) project in Early Years leadership. The intention of this project was to support Early Years Leaders (EYLs) from a diverse range of Early Years settings in NW England, including those in children’s centres and the private, voluntary and independent sector, to improve their practice and hence strengthen the quality of Early Years provision.
The project, carried out in five separate phases, gave rise to a nested action research inquiry carried out by both EYLs and the lead facilitator of the CPD. As the EYLs used the approaches offered by the facilitator to articulate and evaluate their own experiences of leading Early Years provision, their sayings, the articulation of their xpertise and their burgeoning confidence in using that expertise, challenged the facilitator to find her own locus of knowledge. The article focuses on this process of building respectful partnerships for reflexive learning and how the
facilitator, using her own overarching inquiry, developed insights into the process of facilitation itself. The concept of practice architectures (Kemmis et al 2014) was used as a framework to analyse the data. Findings include
the importance of recognising the importance of diverse forms of expertise and where this lay and the emotional labour of relinquishing control of the process to enable authentic shared enquiry.
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| Additional Information and Comments: | This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in the Educational Action Research on 27th February 2020, available online at: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09650792.2020.1734040 |
| Keywords: | First-person action research, early years leadership, facilitation, continuing professional development |
| Faculty / Department: | Faculty of Education and Social Sciences > School of Education |
| Depositing User: | Philippa Williams |
| Date Deposited: | 03 Feb 2020 11:01 |
| Last Modified: | 08 Nov 2024 12:59 |
| URI: | https://hira.hope.ac.uk/id/eprint/3012 |
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