Recent perspectives on early childhood education and care in Canadaedited by Nina Howe and Larry Prochner. 

 - Toronto :  University of Toronto Press,  (c)2012. 
 - 1 online resource (x, 446 pages ):  illustrations. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographies and index. 
<br/><br/>Introduction /  Part I: Historical and contemporary perspectives --  1. Early childhood education and care in Canada in the 1950s and 1960s: retrenchment and renewal /  2. Provision, policy, and politics in early childhood education and care in Canada /  3. The economics of early childhood education and care in Canada /  4. Canadian child care regulations regarding training and curriculum /  Commentary: towards a geology of early childhood education and care in Canada /  Part II: Children, curriculum, and teachers --  5. Revisioning multiculturalism in early childhood education /  6. Intergenerational learning programming from a curriculum studies perspective: new directions, new possibilities /  7. Innovations in provincial early learning curriculum frameworks /  8. The investigating quality project: innovative approaches in early childhood education /  9. Elements of mentoring: two case studies of in-service professional development for early childhood educators /  Commentary: reflections on children, curriculum, and teachers /  Part III: Government involvement --  10. The Quebec child care system: lessons from research /  11. Community-based early child development projects /  12. Federal investments in strenghening indigenous capacity for culturally based early childhood education and care /  13. Integrated early childhood services in school-as-hub models: lessons from Toronto first duty and Peel best start /  Commentary: Government roles in early childhood education and care in Canada: patchwork, perils, and promise of new directions /  Postscript: early childhood education and care in Canada /  Nina Howe and Larry Prochner --  Larry Prochner and Lynne Robertson --  Martha Friendly and Susan Prentice --  Gordon Cleveland --  Ellen Jacobs and Emmanuelle Adrien --  Hillel Goelman --  Veronica Pacini-Ketchabaw and Judith K. Bernhard --  Rachel M. Heydon --  Rachel Langford --  Alan Pierce and Veronica Pacini-Ketchabaw --  Nina Howe and Ellen Jacobs --  Alan Pence --  Christa Japel --  Ray Dev Peters, Angela Howell-Moneta, and Kelly Petrunka --  Jessica Ball --  Janette Pelletier --  Carl Corter --  Helen Penn. 
<br/><br/> The contributors to this volume demonstrate the pressing need that exists to further public discussion on early childhood education to help policymakers shape better decisions for Canadian families. 
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<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781442662032 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Early childhood education--Canada.<br/>Child care services--Canada.<br/>Child care services--Canada.<br/>Early childhood education--Canada.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic Books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>LB1139  / .R434 2012