Language:
Hebrew
Year of publication:
2022
Titel der Quelle:
סוגיות חברתיות בישראל
Angaben zur Quelle:
31,2 (2022) 89-117
Keywords:
Day care centers Administration
;
Women executives Attitudes
Abstract:
This article is based on a study of daycare center managers who participated in a pilot project aimed at changing the communal approach in early childhood education (ECE) centers. The pilot was implemented by the ECE system of Israel’s Association of Community Centers for ages 0–3 based on the Ecological Systems Theory (Bronfenbrenner, 1979). The study aimed to understand the managers’ views and attitudes toward the project, expanding knowledge in the sphere of ECE management and proposing relevant methods for policy improvement. The study applied qualitative methodology and was based on in-depth interviews with managers who participated in the first year of the project, on observations at the daycare centers, and on the project’s implementation process. The findings reveal that the managers are influenced in various ways by the complex economic and organizational reality of their workplace. The position of the daycare managers, who are at once responsible for implementing the project’s policies and managing the caregivers, creates ambivalent attitudes toward the system and the project itself. Daycare management has received little attention in research thus far. As ECE for ages 0–3 is a conspicuous subject on national and international public agendas, this study may help ECE policymakers improve education systems by developing solid communal policies.
Note:
With an English abstract.
DOI:
10.26351/SIII/31-2/4
URL:
אתר את הפרסום בקטלוג המאוחד של ספריות ישראל
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