Love-Based leadership in early childhood education

Authors

  • Satu Uusiautti University of Lapland, Finland
  • Kaarina Määttä University of Lapland, Finland

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.15503/jecs20131.109.120

Keywords:

early childhood education, early childhood education teachers, caring, peda-gogical love

Abstract

A day care center is not just any place where children can spend their day while parents are at work. How to ensure that children have good childhood experiences and how to sup-port their positive development from the very beginning of their educational career? In this study, we introduce the concept of love-based leadership and discuss its role and implemen-tation in early education. Love-based leadership in early education is a method that renews teachers’ professional skills. The Finnish early childhood education system offers favorable premises for love-based leadership in early education. The method should also be included in the curriculum of future early childhood education teachers.

Downloads

Download data is not yet available.

Downloads

Published

2020-01-11

How to Cite

Uusiautti, S. ., & Määttä, K. . (2020). Love-Based leadership in early childhood education. Journal of Education Culture and Society, 4(1), 109–120. https://doi.org/10.15503/jecs20131.109.120

Issue

Vol. 4 No. 1 (2013): Journal of Education Culture and Society

Section

EXPERIENCE

License

CC-BY

Authors retain copyright and grant the journal right of first publication with the work simultaneously licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License that allows others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal. All authors agree for publishing their email adresses, affiliations and short bio statements with their articles during the submission process.