'Nobody left behind': barriers to engagement in early years digitally mediated leadership development
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Halls, K., Sakr, M. and Cooper, K. 2024. 'Nobody left behind': barriers to engagement in early years digitally mediated leadership development. Early Years. https://doi.org/10.1080/09575146.2024.2308099
Type | Article |
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Title | 'Nobody left behind': barriers to engagement in early years digitally mediated leadership development |
Authors | Halls, K., Sakr, M. and Cooper, K. |
Abstract | This research pinpoints the barriers UK early years (EY) leaders face in accessing digitally mediated leadership development. Furthermore, we consider initiatives to disrupt digital exclusion and ensure more equitable access to professional learning opportunities. The onset of the Covid-19 pandemic catalysed an upsurge in the use of digitally mediated professional learning in the UK EY sector. While digital mediation has proven useful in delivering EY leadership development programmes, this article considers who has access to these programmes and who is left behind. Through an inductive thematic analysis applied to 24 qualitative case studies with UK EY training providers, underpinned by the multilevel intersectionality model created by Núñez (2014), we consider how digital exclusion operates through socioeconomic status, geography and race within the sector. Based on this, we emphasise the need for the sector to disrupt these inequities by enacting bottom-up and top-down initiatives to foster digital inclusion across EY. |
Keywords | Digital exclusion; professional learning; multilevel intersectionality; digitally mediated leadership development |
Sustainable Development Goals | 4 Quality education |
Middlesex University Theme | Creativity, Culture & Enterprise |
Research Group | Centre for Education Research and Scholarship (CERS) |
Publisher | Taylor & Francis (Routledge) |
Journal | Early Years |
ISSN | 0957-5146 |
Electronic | 1472-4421 |
Publication dates | |
Online | 31 Jan 2024 |
Publication process dates | |
Submitted | 31 Jan 2023 |
Accepted | 13 Jan 2024 |
Deposited | 25 Jan 2024 |
Output status | In press |
Publisher's version | License |
Copyright Statement | © 2024 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. |
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) | https://doi.org/10.1080/09575146.2024.2308099 |
Web of Science identifier | WOS:001153320400001 |
Language | English |
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