Politics in the playground : the world of early childhood in Aotearoa New Zealand /
World of early childhood in Aotearoa New Zealand
Helen May.
- Revisedition. edition.
- Dunedin, New Zealand : Otago University Press, (c)2019.
- 1 online resource (415 pages)
Previous edition 2009.
Includes bibliographies and index.
Front Cover -- Title Page -- Half Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Introduction: Investing in the Early Years -- Part One / 1. Psychology of Freedom -- Understanding children -- Benefits of play -- Free play at kindergarten -- 'I play and I grow' at Playcentre -- Teaching mothers and motherly teachers -- Playway at school -- Permissive messages to mothers -- Parent campaigns -- 2. Psychology of Disorder -- (Dys)functional families -- Working mothers and maternal deprivation -- The backyard growth of childcare -- Regulating childcare -- Blaming mothers Growth and Expectation 1940s-1960s -- Illegitimate solutions -- 3. Getting Ahead -- The 'problem' with education for Maori children -- Sylvia Ashton-Warner: 'the little ones' -- Maori children at preschool -- Combating disadvantage with a head start -- Revolution in learning -- Te Kohanga: a chance to be equal -- Part Two / 4. Politics of Early Childhood -- The end of the feminine mystique -- Children have rights too -- Who gets to preschool? -- Liberating preschoolers -- National constituency for early childhood -- The year of the child -- the world of the child -- 5. Demanding Childcare Challenge and Constraint 1960s-1980s -- Campaign tactics -- Attachment and separation -- Activism and advocacy -- Working women -- 'Story of a recommendation' -- 6. Working with Children -- Rocking the cradle -- Career at Playcentre -- 'Brought to mind' in family daycare -- To 'teach' in kindergarten -- To 'work' in childcare -- 7. Indigenous Rights and Minority Issues -- Maori self-determination -- Te Kohanga Reo: outside the mainstream -- Kura Kaupapa: transition to school -- Early childhood responses -- Pacific Islands early childhood centres -- Part Three / 8. Winds of Reform State Interest and Devolution 1980s-1990s 201 -- Political shifts -- Against the odds -- A foot in the door -- Implementing Before Five -- National directions -- Parents as First Teachers -- The kindergarten flagship -- 9. Measures of Quality -- Quality discourses -- Who gets to preschool now? -- Weaving Te Whariki -- Qualified to teach -- After Before Five -- Part Four / 10. 'Blue Skies in the Playground' -- 'Pathways to the future' -- Pay parity resolutions -- ABC of private enterprise -- 'Nanny State' divides -- Free early childhood education -- 'Travelling the pathways' -- The Plays of Childhood Strategic Directions 2000s-2010s -- 11. Agendas for Young Children -- Cutting the cost -- ECE Taskforce and An Agenda for Amazing Children -- Participation priorities and the vulnerable child -- A Treaty of Waitangi claim -- Refreshing Te Whariki -- An OECD drama -- Changing worlds of kindergarten and Playcentre -- 'Turning the tide'? -- References -- Abbreviations -- Glossary -- Index