Table of Contents:
  • The English early years sector
  • Professionalisation and the early years workforce
  • Constructing a professional identity, claiming professional agency
  • Leadership and professionalisation
  • Reconceptualising professionalism in ECEC
  • Practice standards and the shaping of professional identity? Technicians or creative researchers?
  • Unpicking the role of reflection and a transformative pedagogy for professional education
  • Empowerment and agency: reflections on narratives of practice.