The Quality Agenda in Early Childhood Education Questioning Local and Global Policy Perspectives /

• Main Author: Hunkin, Elise (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Pivot, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Subjects: Child development.; Educational policy.; Education and state.; Social policy.; Schools.; Early Childhood Education.; Educational Policy and Politics.; Children, Youth and Family Policy.; Schools and Schooling.

This book investigates notions of 'quality' in early childhood settings both in Australia and globally. After experiencing quality reform as an educator, the author turned to research as a means by which to better understand early childhood quality reform and agenda over time. This book qu...

Table of Contents:

• Chapter 1. Perspectives of quality in early childhood settings
• Chapter 2. 'For the little ones, the best': Australian early childhood service and policy histories
• Chapter 3. 'There is a quantum difference between the provision of age-appropriate play-based care and an early learning and care environment': The quality agenda for Australian early childhood
• Chapter 4. 'Early childhood education and care (ECEC) brings a wide range of benefits... but all these benefits are conditional on quality': Questioning the only quality reform agenda
• Chapter 5. 'Wiping noses and stopping children from killing each other': Contesting an only quality agenda
• Chapter 6. Quality futures? The case for re-democratising early childhood education and care.