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Leading for Change: Leadership and Administration of Early Childhood Programs in Canada, 7th edition

Published by Pearson Canada (February 15, 2023) © 2024

  • Karen Chandler George Brown College
  • Valerie Trew University of Guelph

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Leading for Change: Leadership and Administration of Early Childhood Programs in Canada is intended to broaden early learning professionals' understanding of leadership, professional, and advocacy responsibilities - to reimagine what it is to care for children within the context of current social, political, and environmental challenges. Recognizing the deep and lasting impact of early learning professionals and programs on young children, families, and society emphasizes the imperative to understand this profession as a political, even revolutionary, calling. 

Although primarily written for use in early childhood education programs at the postsecondary level, this text also serves as a resource for continued leadership development for early learning professionals and those updating their credentials. A rich source of information for leaders at all levels, this resource includes up-to-date Canadian statistics that highlight current research and identifies a variety of resources, including vital weblinks. Most importantly, however, this text should serve as a provocation to reimagine what it is to care for children within our current context of a prolonged global pandemic, a climate emergency, and the ongoing legacy of colonization, including the continued discovery of buried Indigenous children.

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  • As the world shifts to a greater reliance on digital media, it is appropriate that this text evolves as well. This seventh edition is the first fully digital version of Leading for Change: Leadership and Administration of Early Childhood Programs in Canada. Instructors and students will find that, although the medium has changed, the content is fully consistent with prior editions.
  • This seventh edition emphasizes Canadian research, resources, and policy. Since publication of the previous edition, much has changed in the world, including the authorship of this text. National and global conditions demand a lens of reconciliation and social justice to the updates to this edition.
  • With full-day kindergarten over a decade old in Ontario and becoming the norm across the county, and the prospect of $10 per day child care and increased ECE wages through the Canada-Wide Early Learning and Child Care Agreement being implemented in every province and territory, new material has been incorporated to reflect this ongoing transformation.

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  1. Considering Quality in Early Childhood Programs
  2. Social Policy and Roles of Government
  3. Understanding Leadership in Early Childhood Programs
  4. Understanding a Social Systems Framework in Early Childhood Programs
  5. Accountability, Planning, and Evaluating Early Learning Programs
  6. Effective Team Management
  7. Promoting Professionalism
  8. Policies and Practices to Create Safe and Healthy Learning Environments
  9. Financial Matters
  10. Advocating for Canada's Children

Valerie Trew is the Director at the University of Guelph Child Care and Learning Centre, an early-learning lab school in Guelph, Ontario, Canada. She has spent over 20 years working in children's services through child welfare, postsecondary education, regional government, early intervention, and early learning and child care. As a Registered Early Childhood Educator with a Master of Arts in Leadership, and completing a PhD in Social Justice Education at the University of Toronto, OISE, she also teaches in the Bachelor of Applied Science program at the University of Guelph-Humber, applying a lens of social and environmental justice to studies in policy, administration, inter-professional collaboration, and leadership. She views teaching - from early learning to postsecondary - as a political act and does so with a view to provoke radical social transformation towards a postcolonial world. One of the ways she expands the conception of early childhood is through her involvement in the Educators for Animals Conference. Valerie is passionate about reconciliation and honouring the Dish with One Spoon wampum agreement.

Valerie also holds a Certificate in Plant-Based Nutrition. She served on the founding advisory of the University of Guelph, Plant-Based Nutrition Certificate Program, which launched in January 2022 - the first certificate of its kind at a Canadian university. Valerie also developed and teaches a course on implementing a plant-based menu in an institutional setting - something she successfully achieved at the Child Care and Learning Centre. Valerie is committed to transformation of the food system for a more just, healthy, and livable world for all.

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