Long day childcare (LDC) services provide education and care for children under 5 years of
age in Australia. Those who work in these services are poorly paid and their efforts are …

The provision of early childhood education and care for children and families has received
unprecedented community attention in recent times. In the resulting policy flows, competing …

Early childhood education and care (ECEC) spending and enrollment levels have increased
in a number of liberal welfare states over the past two decades as part of a social investment …

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 …

Using discursive policy analysis, we analyse recent Australian childcare policy reform. By
examining the policy framings of two successive governments and a childcare union, we …

Over the last two decades, neo-liberal education reform has notably transformed the
landscape of early childhood education and care (ECEC) in Aotearoa New Zealand. From …

Over the last thirty years in Australia and elsewhere, there has been a substantial
marketisation of human services1 funded by government. A major justification used for this …

In Constructing Policy Change, Linda A. White examines the expansion of early childhood
education and care (ECEC) policies and programs in liberal welfare states, including …

In this paper I reflect on the dilemma critical early childhood research finds itself in today. In
order to distinguish and distance ourselves from the certainties and seemingly …

In the absence of public provision, many governments rely on the market to meet childcare
demand. But who are the actors shaping this market? What work do they do to marketize …