TY  - BOOK
AU  - Howe,Nina
AU  - Prochner,Laurence Wayne
TI  - Recent perspectives on early childhood education and care in Canadaedited by Nina Howe and Larry Prochner
SN  - 9781442662032
AV  - LB1139 .R434 2012
PY  - 2012///
CY  - Toronto
PB  - University of Toronto Press
KW  - Early childhood education
KW  - Canada
KW  - Child care services
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - 2; Introduction; Nina Howe and Larry Prochner --; Part I: Historical and contemporary perspectives --; 1. Early childhood education and care in Canada in the 1950s and 1960s: retrenchment and renewal; Larry Prochner and Lynne Robertson --; 2. Provision, policy, and politics in early childhood education and care in Canada; Martha Friendly and Susan Prentice --; 3. The economics of early childhood education and care in Canada; Gordon Cleveland --; 4. Canadian child care regulations regarding training and curriculum; Ellen Jacobs and Emmanuelle Adrien --; Commentary: towards a geology of early childhood education and care in Canada; Hillel Goelman --; Part II: Children, curriculum, and teachers --; 5. Revisioning multiculturalism in early childhood education; Veronica Pacini-Ketchabaw and Judith K. Bernhard --; 6. Intergenerational learning programming from a curriculum studies perspective: new directions, new possibilities; Rachel M. Heydon --; 7. Innovations in provincial early learning curriculum frameworks; Rachel Langford --; 8. The investigating quality project: innovative approaches in early childhood education; Alan Pierce and Veronica Pacini-Ketchabaw --; 9. Elements of mentoring: two case studies of in-service professional development for early childhood educators; Nina Howe and Ellen Jacobs --; Commentary: reflections on children, curriculum, and teachers; Alan Pence --; Part III: Government involvement --; 10. The Quebec child care system: lessons from research; Christa Japel --; 11. Community-based early child development projects; Ray Dev Peters, Angela Howell-Moneta, and Kelly Petrunka --; 12. Federal investments in strenghening indigenous capacity for culturally based early childhood education and care; Jessica Ball --; 13. Integrated early childhood services in school-as-hub models: lessons from Toronto first duty and Peel best start; Janette Pelletier --; Commentary: Government roles in early childhood education and care in Canada: patchwork, perils, and promise of new directions; Carl Corter --; Postscript: early childhood education and care in Canada; Helen Penn; 2; b
N2  - 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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