Abstract
Nowadays, early childhood education (ECE) is the subject of many reforms in national contexts. The importance of ECE for societies’ future has been noted in many ways and developments at the administrative, legislative and practical levels have been launched. Leadership is argued to be one of the key factors for the quality of ECE.
This review has been conducted in “Discourses of leadership in the diverse field of early childhood education”, an international ECE leadership research project with participants from Finland, Germany, Japan, Singapore, South Africa and the United States. The objective of the project is to investigate through focus