ECEC Educator Perspectives toward Administrative Burden of Quality Improvement Plans and its Impact on Role-identity and Relationships

The National Quality Framework was implemented in early childhood education and care (ECEC), leading to an administrative burden related to Quality Improvement Plans (QIPs). This qualitative study, using grounded theory, identifies the QIP’s impact on educator role-identity, and the ripple-effect of...

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Main Author: Bullock, Deborah Ann
Format: Thesis
Published: Curtin University 2017
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/65367
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description The National Quality Framework was implemented in early childhood education and care (ECEC), leading to an administrative burden related to Quality Improvement Plans (QIPs). This qualitative study, using grounded theory, identifies the QIP’s impact on educator role-identity, and the ripple-effect of the burden on their personal and professional life. The impact is explained as learning, psychological and compliance costs, while interpretation of policy, individual characteristics and situational factors in ECEC contexts influence the perceived burden.
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spelling curtin-20.500.11937-653672018-02-08T07:34:46Z ECEC Educator Perspectives toward Administrative Burden of Quality Improvement Plans and its Impact on Role-identity and Relationships Bullock, Deborah Ann The National Quality Framework was implemented in early childhood education and care (ECEC), leading to an administrative burden related to Quality Improvement Plans (QIPs). This qualitative study, using grounded theory, identifies the QIP’s impact on educator role-identity, and the ripple-effect of the burden on their personal and professional life. The impact is explained as learning, psychological and compliance costs, while interpretation of policy, individual characteristics and situational factors in ECEC contexts influence the perceived burden. 2017 Thesis http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/65367 Curtin University fulltext
spellingShingle Bullock, Deborah Ann
ECEC Educator Perspectives toward Administrative Burden of Quality Improvement Plans and its Impact on Role-identity and Relationships
title ECEC Educator Perspectives toward Administrative Burden of Quality Improvement Plans and its Impact on Role-identity and Relationships
title_full ECEC Educator Perspectives toward Administrative Burden of Quality Improvement Plans and its Impact on Role-identity and Relationships
title_fullStr ECEC Educator Perspectives toward Administrative Burden of Quality Improvement Plans and its Impact on Role-identity and Relationships
title_full_unstemmed ECEC Educator Perspectives toward Administrative Burden of Quality Improvement Plans and its Impact on Role-identity and Relationships
title_short ECEC Educator Perspectives toward Administrative Burden of Quality Improvement Plans and its Impact on Role-identity and Relationships
title_sort ecec educator perspectives toward administrative burden of quality improvement plans and its impact on role-identity and relationships
url http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/65367