Whose quality? The (mis) uses of quality reform in early childhood and education policy

E Hunkin - Journal of Education Policy, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
This paper reports on the findings of an in-depth genealogical study of the discourse of
quality in Australian Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC) policy. Quality reform has …

[图书][B] Leading and managing early childhood settings

N McCrea - 2015 - books.google.com
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 …

An analysis of the Australian government's jobs for families child care Package: The utility of Bacchi's WPR methodology to identify potential influences on parents' …

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 …

Understanding who cares: Creating the evidence to address the long-standing policy problem of staff shortages in early childhood education and care

F Press, S Wong, M Gibson - Journal of Family Studies, 2015 - Taylor & Francis
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 …

The shaping of Australian early childhood education and care: What can we learn from a critical juncture?

H Logan, F Press, J Sumsion - Australasian Journal of Early …, 2016 - journals.sagepub.com
THIS ARTICLE IDENTIFIES AND examines a critical juncture in Australian early childhood
education and care (ECEC) policy history in order to understand the contemporary …

The privatisation/marketisation of ECEC debate: Social versus neoliberal models

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 …

The Council of Australian Government Reforms [2007–2013]: a critical juncture in Australian early childhood education and care (ECEC) policy?

H Logan, J Sumsion, F Press - International Journal of Child Care and …, 2015 - Springer
Between 2007 and 2013, the Council of Australian Governments (COAG) introduced major
national policy reforms to improve quality in early childhood education and care …

Making the subjects of mental health care: A cross‐cultural comparison of mental health policy in Hong Kong, China and New South Wales, Australia

J Cui, K Lancaster, CE Newman - Sociology of Health & Illness, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
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 …

Early childhood education policies in Australia

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 …

Tensions in constructions of quality in Australian early childhood education and care policy history

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 …