" This should be essential reading for anyone involved in the training and professional
development of early years practitioners... It is an impressive analysis of the historical and …

This article uses an ethical audit framework proposed by Cribb and Ball to critically analyze
the possible implications of the rapid growth of corporatized childcare in Australia. In …

The lives of all Australians are profoundly affected by the quality of social services available,
but a long list of royal commissions and public inquiries have revealed them to be failing. In …

How a community constructs the notion of childhood and the child is fundamentally
implicated in the practices and policies of that community. This article explores the …

QUALITY IN EARLY CHILDHOOD development was barely mentioned in government policy
four decades ago. But this has changed. Using discourses and gazes as analytical tools …

There has been minimal Australian research focussed on the management and leadership
aspects of directors' work in centre-based child care to date. In Australia, practices in early …

Early Childhood Australia actively promotes the provision of high-quality services for all
young children from birth to eight years and their families, and supports the important role of …

LESS THAN 20 YEARS on from the proclamation of the Child Care Act 1972, and
introduction of funding for not-for-profit childcare centres, a series of market-driven public …

In pronouncements of early childhood education and care (ECEC) policy the importance of
quality appears as a seemingly irrefutable concept. Yet, attention to ECEC policy history …

Over past decades, the face of Australian early childhood education and care (ECEC) has
changed substantially. It has been shaped by two dominant policy discourses: the discourse …