"This cross-cultural volume makes a major new contribution to the educational leadership literature. Written for practitioners and academics, it presents three international case studies to illustrate the political nature of leadership practice and the potential of contrasting theoretical approaches for leadership research and development"--

Joce Nuttall is a Research Professor at Australian Catholic University, Australia, and a Fellow of the Australian Teacher Education Association. Joce's research focuses on professional learning in early childhood education, mainly in Aotearoa New Zealand and Australia, and through collaboration with colleagues in England, Norway, and South Korea.

1. The impetus for this book: our early childhood leadership think tank; 2. Nau mai e Hine ki te Aoturoa a tou tupuna a Tanematuai tiki ai ki roto o Matangireia i a Io Matangaro, i roto o Rangi¿tea a whata ana; 3. Te Kete Aronui - harmful knowledge: colonization, racism, and white privilege in the lives of Mäori women - leading in mainstream early childhood centres in Aotearoa, New Zealand; 4. Leadership as change: immanent knowledge practices for emergent educational leaderships and organizational learning; 5. Knowledge possibilizing: a transgressional learning and leadership model; 6. A cultural-historical activity theory perspective on learning to lead; 7. Leading organizational change: the case of Haneul Early Learning Centre; 8. A conversation between approaches: no gifts, no comparisons, just enough food for thought - He whakawhiti whakaaro korero.