The Importance Of Leadership In Early Childhood Education

An increased understanding of complex and diverse development and learning requirement of young children has lead towards equally specialized professional workforce for meeting up those needs (Rogoff & Bartlett, 2001). It has been observed that effective and successful partnership results in providing an experience and skills of early childhood professionals in different fields in order to provide universal method for supporting children’s development and learning (Abbott & Pugh, 1998, pp 23). Thus the link between effective provision and leadership is true for early childhood settings, where it has been indicated that practitioner often plays a vital role in delivering quality services (Jorde-Bloom, 1992, pp 579–594). Moreover, effective leadership is considered to be the key factor for effective provision Early Childhood development (Dalli, 2005). Importance for increasing accountability and professionalism is other factors which requires leadership

Some of which are general questions like the suitable balance of private and state provision and funding, the conditions undertaken where the markets must function, diverse organizational models and regulations, and the relationships between services which are universal and the ones who are directed on particular groups. According to Menmuir (2001), through sharing of knowledge and experience by collaborating partnerships with other researchers, policy makers and practitioners will make it possible that the early childhood professionals can play their role in contributing towards new information relating to childhood development and learning (Moss, 2001, 79-96). other questions relates to the link between providing early year childcare and education and wide services of children like mental health, recreation provision, library, social work, health and play and other various cultural setting (Nupponen, 2006, pp