The Quality Agenda in Early Childhood Education
Questioning Local and Global Policy Perspectives
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. Les mer
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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.
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
Elise Hunkin is Lecturer at the RMIT School of Education at RMIT University, Australia. She is an experienced educator in
kindergarten and early primary school settings. Her research investigates quality reform policy in early childhood education
and care.