Leading and Managing Early Childhood Settings: Inspiring people, places and practices examines what it means to be a leader, manager and administrator across the early …
D Beutler, M Fenech - Australasian journal of early childhood, 2018 - journals.sagepub.com
ISSUES OF CHILDCARE AFFORDABILITY, availability and flexibility in Australia have long restricted choice for parents wanting to use formal child care. To address these issues, the …
Evidence-based policy is a means of ensuring that policy is informed by more than ideology or expedience. However, what constitutes robust evidence is highly contested. In this paper …
THIS ARTICLE IDENTIFIES AND examines a critical juncture in Australian early childhood education and care (ECEC) policy history in order to understand the contemporary …
C Woodrow, F Press - The Sage handbook of early childhood policy, 2018 - torrossa.com
In the four decades since the introduction of the Child Care Act, 1972, Australian childcare has transmogrified from a public, notfor-profit and community-based sector to a …
Between 2007 and 2013, the Council of Australian Governments (COAG) introduced major national policy reforms to improve quality in early childhood education and care …
Constituting 'social problems' in particular ways has a range of effects, including for how subjects are positioned within policy and discourse. Employing an approach grounded in …
B Raban, A Kilderry - Early childhood education policies in Asia Pacific …, 2017 - Springer
This chapter introduces, explores, and analyzes Australian policies with respect to early childhood education (ECE). It does this by using the 3A2S framework: accessibility …
H Logan - European Early Childhood Education Research …, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
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 …