This paper examines how practices of leadership have been negotiated and have changed over time in the context of a grassroots health promotion project in Lima, Peru. Tracing these trajectories in the context of the evolution of women’s organising in Peru informs a broader analysis of the changing role of grassroots women in development projects, feeding into debates around the professionalisat...

The last decade has revealed a global (re)configuring of the relationships between state, society and educational settings in direction systems performance management. In this article, authors conduct critical feminist inquiry into changing relationship relation to professionalisation early childhood education care practitioners Ireland, with focus on dilemmatic contradictions policy reform ens...