Early Childhood Governance
Author: Sharon Lynn Kagan
Publisher: Teachers College Press
Published: 2015-03-06
Total Pages: 209
ISBN-13: 080775630X
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Neoliberalism and Early Childhood Education
Author: Guy Roberts-Holmes
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2021-04-27
Total Pages: 199
ISBN-13: 0429638744
DOWNLOAD EBOOKNeoliberalism, with its worldview of competition, choice and calculation, its economisation of everything, and its will to govern has ‘sunk its roots deep’ into Early Childhood Education and Care. This book considers its deeply detrimental impacts upon young children, families, settings and the workforce. Through an exploration of possibilities for resistance and refusal, and reflection on the significance of the coronavirus pandemic, Roberts-Holmes and Moss provide hope that neoliberalism’s current hegemony can be successfully contested. The book provides a critical introduction to neoliberalism and three closely related and influential concepts – Human Capital theory, Public Choice theory and New Public Management – as well as an overview of the impact of neoliberalism on compulsory education, in particular through the Global Education Reform Movement. With its main focus on Early Childhood Education and Care, this book argues that while neoliberalism is a very powerful force, it is ‘deeply problematic, eminently resistible and eventually replaceable’ – and that there are indeed alternatives. Neoliberalism and Early Childhood Education is an insightful supplement to the studies of students and researchers in Early Childhood Education and Sociology of Education, and is also highly relevant to policy makers.
Head Start Program Performance Standards
Author: United States. Office of Child Development
Publisher:
Published: 1975
Total Pages: 76
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKEpistemic Governance
Author: Pertti Alasuutari
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2019-10-07
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9783030191498
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book argues that modern governance is performed by actors who seek social change epistemically, by drawing on widespread, public views of reality. Agents of change such as parliamentarians or social movement activists will assess and affect what they believe to be people’s conceptions of what is possible, rational, and desirable. This often means that these key authority figures will invest in credible knowledge production, as well as appeal to individual and group identifications, emotions, and values. Alasuutari and Qadir show how this epistemic governance works in three important arenas of social change: parliaments, which debate laws that constitute the bulk of reforms; international organizations that circulate global norms; and social movements and NGOs. Through their analysis, the authors’ detailed, innovative methodology for discourse analysis indicates the utility of epistemic governance as a new paradigm for research into global social change. This book will be of use to students in upper level degree programs who want to design empirical research into social change as well as researchers in sociology, political science and public policy.
Transforming the Financing of Early Care and Education
Author: National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
Publisher: National Academies Press
Published: 2018-07-17
Total Pages: 315
ISBN-13: 0309470439
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHigh-quality early care and education for children from birth to kindergarten entry is critical to positive child development and has the potential to generate economic returns, which benefit not only children and their families but society at large. Despite the great promise of early care and education, it has been financed in such a way that high-quality early care and education have only been available to a fraction of the families needing and desiring it and does little to further develop the early-care-and-education (ECE) workforce. It is neither sustainable nor adequate to provide the quality of care and learning that children and families needâ€"a shortfall that further perpetuates and drives inequality. Transforming the Financing of Early Care and Education outlines a framework for a funding strategy that will provide reliable, accessible high-quality early care and education for young children from birth to kindergarten entry, including a highly qualified and adequately compensated workforce that is consistent with the vision outlined in the 2015 report, Transforming the Workforce for Children Birth Through Age 8: A Unifying Foundation. The recommendations of this report are based on essential features of child development and early learning, and on principles for high-quality professional practice at the levels of individual practitioners, practice environments, leadership, systems, policies, and resource allocation.
Ethical Practice in Early Childhood
Author: Ioanna Palaiologou
Publisher: SAGE
Published: 2012-07-25
Total Pages: 242
ISBN-13: 1446264505
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEthical considerations are raising new questions about the involvement and participation of children in research. By considering the ethical issues that can arise when working with and doing research with young children from birth to five years, this book examines a wide range of topics including: - involving young children in research - informed consent - research tools with children under five - researching children with special needs - researching vulnerable groups - researching other cultures - multi-agency working - loss and bereavement - ethical practices when studying early childhood - safe-guarding young children - inspection - ethics and leadership Examples from education, health and social work are examined, and there are chapter overviews, activities, case studies, points for discussion and recommendations for further reading and useful Websites in each chapter; which help to engage the reader and facilitate critical thinking and reflective practice. This is a comprehensive guide to a developing field for the early years student and practitioner.
The Early Advantage 2—Building Systems That Work for Young Children
Author: Sharon Lynn Kagan
Publisher: Teachers College Press
Published: 2019-04-12
Total Pages: 265
ISBN-13: 080776129X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"The Early Advantage 2--Building Systems That Work for Young Children: International Insights from Innovative Early Childhood Systems is a timely and modern resource for policy makers and practitioners that conceptualizes ECEC as a manifestation of country values and social science, while seeking to understand it broadly, scientifically, and systemically"--
Starting Strong Engaging Young Children Lessons from Research about Quality in Early Childhood Education and Care
Author: OECD
Publisher: OECD Publishing
Published: 2018-03-27
Total Pages: 166
ISBN-13: 9264085149
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe first years of life lay the foundations for a child’s future development and learning. Reflecting on the important role of early childhood education and care (ECEC) services in providing all children with the skills they need to be successful in school, many countries have increased their ...
Providing a Sure Start
Author: Naomi Eisenstadt
Publisher: Policy Press
Published: 2011
Total Pages: 190
ISBN-13: 1847427294
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOffering insight into the key debates on services for young children, this book tells how Sure Start was set up, the numerous changes it went through, and how it has changed the landscape of services for all young children in England.
Collaborating to Manage
Author: Robert Agranoff
Publisher: Georgetown University Press
Published: 2012-08-06
Total Pages: 284
ISBN-13: 1589019172
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCollaborating to Manage captures the basic ideas and approaches to public management in an era where government must partner with external organizations as well as other agencies to work together to solve difficult public problems. In this primer, Robert Agranoff examines current and emergent approaches and techniques in intergovernmental grants and regulation management, purchase-of-service contracting, networking, public/nonprofit partnerships and other lateral arrangements in the context of the changing public agency. As he steers the reader through various ways of coping with such organizational richness, Agranoff offers a deeper look at public management in an era of shared public program responsibility within governance. Geared toward professionals working with the new bureaucracy and for students who will pursue careers in the public or non-profit sectors, Collaborating to Manage is a student-friendly book that contains many examples of real-world practices, lessons from successful cases, and summaries of key principles for collaborative public management.
