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  title info:
    title: Democratic Policies and Practices in Early Childhood Education
    sub title: An Aotearoa New Zealand Case Study
  name:
    name part: Mitchell, Linda.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
    role:
      role term: aut
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      role term: http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: si
    date issued: 2019
    edition: 1st ed. 2019.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: IX, 176 p. 3 illus. online resource.
  abstract: This book uses case studies of Aotearoa New Zealand policy formulation and practice to explore early childhood education and care (ECEC) as a site for democratic citizenship and social justice. Addressing fundamental questions about the purpose of education, it argues for explicit values focusing on children and childhood as a basis for ECEC policy to replace discourses of economic investment and child vulnerability that are dominant within policy goals in many countries. A commitment to democracy and equity is a good place to start. Aotearoa New Zealand is of special interest because of its world-renowned ECE curriculum, Te Whāriki, which is based on principles of social justice, respect for rights and an aim to support children growing up in a democracy. The curriculum upholds Māori rights to tino rangatiratanga (absolute authority over their lives and resources). Yet, Aotearoa New Zealand's extreme market policies and harsh labour laws during recent periods run contrary to ideals of democracy and are puzzlingly inconsistent with curriculum principles. The book starts with an analysis and critique of global trends in ECEC in countries that share capitalist mixed economies of welfare, and where competition and marketisation have become dominant principles. It then analyses ideas about children, childhood and ECEC within a framework of democracy, going back to the Athenean origins of democracy and including recent literature on meanings and traditions of democracy in education. The book uses vivid examples from researching curriculum, pedagogy and assessment practices within Aotearoa New Zealand ECEC settings and collective action to influence policy change in order to illustrate opportunities for democratic education. It concludes by examining what conditions might be needed for integrated and democratic ECEC provision in Aotearoa New Zealand, and what changes are necessary for the future. It offers a compass not a map; it points to promising directions and provi…
  table of contents: 1 Introduction -- 2 Aotearoa New Zealand within global trends in ECEC policy -- 3 Traditions of democracy in education -- 4 Weaving a curriculum -- 5 Assessment and pedagogical documentation -- 6 Influencing policy change through collective action -- 7 Policy frameworks and democratic participation -- 8 Conclusion.
  note: by Linda Mitchell.
  subject:
    topic: Child development
  subject:
    topic: Educational policy
  subject:
    topic: Education and state
  subject:
    topic: International education
  subject:
    topic: Comparative education
  subject:
    topic: Early Childhood Education
  subject:
    topic: Educational Policy and Politics
  subject:
    topic: International and Comparative Education
  classification: LB1101-1139
  classification: 372.21
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
  related item:
    title info:
      title: International Perspectives on Early Childhood Education and Development, 24
  identifier: 9789811317934
  identifier: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-1793-4
  record info:
    record creation date: 181024
    record change date: 20191028141840.0
    record identifier: 978-981-13-1793-4