Glossary

This glossary provides definitions for key terms and concepts related to leadership in Early Childhood Education (ECE).

Each term listed is hyperlinked wherever it appears throughout the course site.

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Ethics of Care

Offers is the notion of care as a relational way of knowing and being beyond solely responding to a person’s needs. Taking up care in this manner commits to cultivating resistances, practices, processes, and policies which work toward the flourishing of all, human and other than human, within complex interconnected systems.

Reference

Relational leadership (2025). Moodle course. [RRU].

Ethos

1. Sociology: the fundamental character or spirit of a culture; the underlying sentiment that informs the beliefs, customs, or practices of a group or society; the dominant assumptions of a people or period. For example, in the Greek ethos, the individual was highly valued.

2. The character or disposition of a community, group, person, etc.

Reference

Ethos (n.d.). Ethos: Dictionary.com. https://www.dictionary.com/browse/ethos