TY  - BOOK
AU  - May,Helen
TI  - Politics in the playground: the world of early childhood in Aotearoa New Zealand 
SN  - 9780947522735
AV  - LB1139 .P655 2019
PY  - 2019///
CY  - Dunedin, New Zealand
PB  - Otago University Press
KW  - Education, Preschool
KW  - New Zealand
KW  - History
KW  - Preschool children
KW  - Care
KW  - Government policy
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - Previous edition 2009; 2; Front Cover --; Title Page --; Half Title --; Copyright --; Contents --; Introduction: Investing in the Early Years --; Part One; Growth and Expectation 1940s-1960s --; 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; 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; Challenge and Constraint 1960s-1980s --; 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; 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; State Interest and Devolution 1980s-1990s 201 --; 8. Winds of Reform; 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; Strategic Directions 2000s-2010s --; 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; 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; 2; b
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