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The quality agenda in early childhood education : questioning local and global policy perspectives / Elise Hunkin.

Hunkin, Elise, author.
2019
LB1139.23 .H86 2019
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Title
The quality agenda in early childhood education : questioning local and global policy perspectives / Elise Hunkin.
Author
Hunkin, Elise, author.
ISBN
9783030316273 (electronic book)
3030316270 (electronic book)
3030316262
9783030316266
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-31
Published
Cham Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2019]
Language
English
Description
1 online resource.
Item Number
10.1007/978-3-030-31
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LB1139.23 .H86 2019
Dewey Decimal Classification
372.21
Summary
This book investigates notions of 'quality in early childhood settings both in Australia and globally. After experiencing quality reform as an educator, the author turned to research as a means by which to better understand early childhood quality reform and agenda over time. This book questions how early childhood reform policy and agenda have constructed quality - what it is presumed to be and do - over time and the implications of these 'truths'. Taking a Foucauldian governmentality view of the history of Australian early childhood services, the impetus for the quality reform era, the quality reform policy assemblages and the contemporary post-reform era, this book rigorously examines prevailing policy assumptions, ambitions and deployments of quality, and warns of an emerging ambition for 'only quality settings in early childhood. This book will appeal to early childhood students and educators, education policy sociologists and all who are interested in reclaiming early childhood education and care.
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Chapter 1. Perspectives of quality in early childhood settings
Chapter 2. 'For the little ones, the best': Australian early childhood service and policy histories
Chapter 3. 'There is a quantum difference between the provision of age-appropriate play-based care and an early learning and care environment': The quality agenda for Australian early childhood
Chapter 4. 'Early childhood education and care (ECEC) brings a wide range of benefits... but all these benefits are conditional on quality': Questioning the only quality reform agenda
Chapter 5. 'Wiping noses and stopping children from killing each other': Contesting an only quality agenda
Chapter 6. Quality futures? The case for re-democratising early childhood education and care.

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