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Transforming Nursery Education
Peter Moss,Helen Penn +1 more
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An Early Childhood Service for the Twenty-First Century The parents' perspective Why this Won't Do and a Historical Perspective on Nursery Education.Abstract:
An Early Childhood Service for the Twenty-First Century The Parents' Perspective What Have We Got? Why This Won't Do A Historical Perspective on Nursery Education What Does Nursery Education Offer Children? What About the Workers? Can It Be Done in Britain? It Has Been Done Abroad Footing the Bill From Vision to Reality Transforming Nursery Education: What Would It Look Like?read more
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Childcare Market Management: how the United Kingdom Government has reshaped its role in developing early childhood education and care
TL;DR: Early education and care policies in the United Kingdom since 1997, when a Labour Government came to power, and sets them in the wider context of international changes are reviewed in this article, concluding that despite recent difficulties, trends towards private sector growth will continue and that research is urgently needed to investigate and document the changes.
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An equal start?: Providing quality early education and care for disadvantaged children
TL;DR: This historical paradox is explained, according to the author, because of the role played by the Sanitaristas, an expert community who successfully seized the opportunity opened by the transition, colonized a niche of the state apparatus, and forced the expansion of citizenship by including the SUS in the new Brazilian Constitution.
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Constructing The Triangle Of Care: Power And Professionalism In Practitioner/Parent Relationships
TL;DR: This article explored data from semi-structured interviews with the parents and key workers for about twenty children under three who were attending two London children's centres and found that class and cultural differences, as well as conflicting understandings of "professionalism" are shown to inform the development of the triangle of care, with potential consequences for the care and welfare of the small child on whom the relationship is focused.
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Changing Curriculum for Early Childhood Education in England.
TL;DR: Early childhood education in England has been child centered, in contrast to approaches that are subject centered and teacher directed, emphasizing individual children's interests, free play, firsthand experience, and integrated learning as discussed by the authors.
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The ‘childcare champion’? New Labour, social justice and the childcare market
Stephen J. Ball,Carol Vincent +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that social justice in childcare is currently understood to be primarily a matter of access, and demonstrate that even for privileged middle class consumers, the childcare market is a very "peculiar" one, especially when compared to the markets of economic theory.