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Early childhood directors manage through relationships. What You Need to Lead an Early Childhood Program guides a director through the steps to build respectful, dynamic, and welcoming relationships with families and staff. This important book covers all traditional early childhood administration topics, from financial management to marketing and development, while also recognizing and exploring the human side of management and the critical role of emotional intelligence in effective leadership.

This compilation first discusses the formation of the teacher and the production of images by children. Following this, the authors present prospects, challenges and future implications for the development of the teaching profession in Nordic countries. The schooldays of children with hearing loss are assessed in terms of their perceived challenges due to hearing loss and peer support received from each other. The closing study describes how early childhood education of the Sámi in Finland is implemented according to Sámi early childhood educators.