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The purpose of this Bachelor’s Thesis was to examine how distributed pedagogical leadership showed in the interviews of daycare center leaders. In this Thesis, the subject is examined, analyzed and interpreted in the framework of Fonsén’s (2014) broad phenomenon concentrating on the following dimensions: context, organizational culture and management of substance. The governance and legislation of early childhood education has been under amendment procedures during the past years and the process is ongoing. Research has shown that the base for high-quality early childhood education is formed by high-quality pedagogical leadership. The standpoint of distributed pedagogical leadership looks deeper on pedagogical leadership and transfers to examine it on an interactional level. From this point of view, leadership can be seen as a shared responsibility, for which everyone is responsible for basic mission on their positions expanse. This study is a part of an international leadership research ”Discourse of leadership in diverse field of early childhood education” lead by Elina Fonsén. For this thesis I interviewed four daycare center leaders from Helsinki. The method of the interview was a focus group and my role was to be a facilitator in the situation. This research was analyzed with a qualitative content analysis. The study was reported as a dialog with theoretical frame, empirical material and researcher of this study. The results of the study showed that in the leaders’ discourses it is possible to construe features of “pre” distributed pedagogical leadership. For example, this was visible from the discourses when leaders were speaking about kindergarten teacher’s pedagogical leadership being responsible of pedagogy in the group. On the other hand, leaders also simultaneously evaluated the quality the kindergarten teacher’s pedagogy. The results of the study also show that the focus of leadership in early childhood education is shifting from individual management towards distributed leadership. When basic mission was developed only by the leaders in the past, nowadays the whole staff is involved in developing the basic mission.