Leadership and Policy in ECE Student: Professor: Course title: Date: Leadership and Policy in ECE Discourse basically implies more than the usage of language in conversations or in texts. As Foucault pointed out, discourse is beyond language: it is institutionally, socially and historically structured (Dahlberg, Moss & Pence, 2013). In this paper, the content addressed in the readings is critically examined and reflected upon, and the correlation between discourse, systems of legitimation and leadership is discussed. In the past 10 years, the notion of discourse has been utilized as a critical-analytical tool by scholars in Early Childhood Education (ECE) among other fields in studying the way some discourses expand and/or limit our understanding of childhood, children, policy and education, and in inquiring i