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

ISBN-13: 9783030316266 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 125 str.

Elise Hunkin

Spis treści

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

O autorze

Elise Hunkin is Lecturer at the RMIT School of Education at RMIT University, Australia. She is an experienced educator in kindergarten and early primary school settings. Her research investigates quality reform policy in early childhood education and care.