Swings + Roundabouts Autumn 2021

Good Governance in ECE Strategic Planning in ECE Business/Annual Planning Financial Management Marketing in a Competitive Environment Te Wh ā riki for non-teachers Quality Improvement Managing People Compliance Health & Safety Appraisals for all staff Surviving ERO Go to www.ecc.org.nz/events for more information and booking. If you cannot see in our Calendar of Events when your desired workshop is available in your area, contact events@ecc.org.nz , or check out our e-Learning options. Some topics are available as in-house workshops. PD for Managers, Owners and Governance Committee Members an inspiration to the organisation) and is motivated by collaborative, influencing, and recognising disruptive and transformative thinking to improve conditions for their communities. WHAT ARE THE POSSIBILITIES OF THIS STUDY? If we can suspend assumptions and judgements about what leadership is and has always been, then this will open up a pathway for understanding leadership through an alternative lens (Ahnee-Beham & Napier, 2002). This alternative lens is one that moves us towards the cultural realities of leadership rather than away from them (Faircloth, 2017). In doing so, the study can achieve another of its aims to develop a Pan-Pacific, principle- based framework of leadership to support Pasifika children in Pasifika and non-Pasifika ECE services. This framework may lead to potentially greater transitional outcomes for learners at the ECE, Schools, and Tertiary levels. It is timely for an alternative view of leadership to take centre stage while unsettling the idea of Western cultural values as the one truth. At the same time, however, it is unwise to romanticise Indigenous ways of knowing as being another “one truth’. Not everything from the past or from one’s traditions is going to be relevant to education or leadership today. Even so, opening the imagination to diverse ways of knowing with a critical lens can only broaden and enrich our understandings of leadership for the benefit of all ECE communities. It will also encourage us to think in ways that move us towards more inclusive discussions that acknowledge Pasifika ways of knowing as a visible and important concept in a self- determining education, both now and in the future. March 2021 { 19 }