Professional learning communities in the early childhood
education sector have been underresearched.
The focus on
collaborative learning, collective enquiry and shared leadership of
such communities makes them worthy of study in order to
establish their relevance to the sector. One of the foci of this
research involving case studies of different models of professional
learning communities was leadership. Findings suggested that the
actions of the professional leader and the degree of relational trust
present have an impact on the effectiveness of the professional
learning communities.