Circles of Change Revisited: Building Leadership, Scholarship and Professional Identity in the Children's Services Sector

Autor/inn/en	Macfarlane, Kym; Cartmel, Jennifer
Titel	Circles of Change Revisited: Building Leadership, Scholarship and Professional Identity in the Children's Services Sector
Quelle	In: Professional Development in Education, 38 (2012) 5, S.845-861 (17 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1941-5257
DOI	10.1080/19415257.2012.680603
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Social Services; Children; Program Implementation; National Standards; Labor Force Development; Professional Development; Professional Identity; Early Childhood Education; Educational Change; Australia + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Social service; Soziale Dienstleistung; Soziale Dienste; Child; Kind; Kinder; Arbeitskräftebestand; Early childhood; Education; Frühkindliche Bildung; Frühpädagogik; Bildungsreform; Australien
Abstract	The field of children's services in Australia is currently undergoing significant change. For example, the current implementation of the Early Years Reform Agenda encompasses the development of National Quality Standards, which promote a strong focus on workforce development. As a consequence, practitioners in this sector are being required to consistently reflect on their practice and often re-invent themselves in order to maintain their employment. This paper details a new and innovative strategy, which has been successful in facilitating transformational change. Entitled Circles of Change, the strategy has been embedded in class teaching, in field placement and in professional development with outstanding results. The authors contend that in the children's services sector in Australia, strategies such as this one are crucial to the development of the workforce and, ultimately, to the provision of high-quality children's services, particularly as a professionalised workforce is a rapidly growing concern. (Contains 1 table and 3 figures.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10