The Quality Agenda in Early Childhood Education - Questioning Local and Global Policy Perspectives (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2019)

This book investigates notions of 'quality' in early childhood settings both in Australia and globally. After experiencing quality reform as an educator, the author turned to research as a means by which to better understand early childhood quality reform and agenda over time. This book questions how early childhood reform policy and agenda have constructed quality - what it is presumed to be and do - over time and the implications of these 'truths'. Taking a Foucauldian governmentality view of the history of Australian early childhood services, the impetus for the quality reform era, the quality reform policy assemblages and the contemporary post-reform era, this book rigorously examines prevailing policy assumptions, ambitions and deployments of quality, and warns of an emerging ambition for 'only quality' settings in early childhood. This book will appeal to early childhood students and educators, education policy sociologists and all who are interested in reclaiming early childhood education and care.

General

Imprint:	Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Country of origin:	Switzerland
Release date:	December 2019
First published:	2019
Authors:	Elise Hunkin
Dimensions:	210 x 148mm (L x W)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	125
Edition:	1st ed. 2019
ISBN-13:	978-3-03-031626-6
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Education > Organization & management of education > General Books > Social sciences > Education > Schools > Pre-school & kindergarten Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Central government > Central government policies Promotions
LSN:	3-03-031626-2
Barcode:	9783030316266

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