Examining Focused Conversation for Leading Professional Learning and Development in Early Childhood: Highlighting the Role of Evaluative Stance

Focused conversation is an approach used to lead group inquiry into topics of concern or interest. Four levels of questions guide participants through objective, reflective, interpretive and decisional levels of conversation. Over the past several years focused conversation was adopted in Australia...

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Evaluative Thinking
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Psychological Patterns
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Television Viewing
Transformational Leadership
Young Children
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