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  • Chapter 4 - Leadership as Change

  • Joce Nuttall, Australian Catholic University, Melbourne, Anne B. Reinertsen, Østfold University College, Norway, Arvay Hinemoa Armstrong-Read, Monash University, Victoria
  • Book:
    Learning to Lead in Early Childhood Education
    Published online:
    17 August 2023
    Print publication:
    31 August 2023, pp 53-77

  • Summary

    The work of philosophers Giles Deleuze and Felix Guattari is drawn on in this chapter to make a case for looking beyond discourses of accountability and quality improvement for leaders in early childhood education and embracing more fully the affective dimensions of this work. In engaging with the inevitability of change, the chapter upends ideas about rationality, individualism, and time, turning instead to understanding the “leadership event” as complex, integrated, holistic, and laden with affect. Concepts and practices of group-decentered writing projects are introduced as a way of manifesting the ethical and embodied nature of work in early childhood education. An argument is made for the development of a “rhizomatic writing machine” to allow leaders to fully embrace the liminal, and even unconscious, aspects of the development of their subjectivities as leaders as they work in constant states of change and flux.