Assembling key experts and activists in the area of Canadian child care policy, this book makes an important contribution to understanding how Canada, with its particular institutions, politics, and values, should design a national child care...
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Assembling key experts and activists in the area of Canadian child care policy, this book makes an important contribution to understanding how Canada, with its particular institutions, politics, and values, should design a national child care strategy
Includes edited papers, comments on those papers, and summaries of floor discussions from symposium entitled, Good Child Care in Canada for the 21st Century : Preparing the Policy Map
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Child care and Canadian federalism in the 1990s: Canary in a coal mine / Martha FriendlyThe politics of child care in Canada: provincial and federal governments / Bob Rae -- The federal imperative / Tom Kent -- Child care and the social union framework agreement: lament or leverage? / Alfred MacLeod -- What we can learn from the Quebec experience / Jocelyne Tougas -- Getting good child care for families: What can Canada learn from other countries / Helen Penn -- Moveing towards achieving quality child care / Gillian Doherty -- Training, quality and the lived experience of child care / Hillel Goelman -- The role of caregiver training / Ellen Vineberg Jacobs -- The professionalization process in child care / June Pollard, Judy Bernhard and Pat Carson -- Education and child care: confronting new realities / Penny Milton -- The case for community-governed child care services / Susan Prentice -- How should child care be provided? / Julie Mathien.
Learning from experience: can we check old assumptions and categorical thinking at the door? / Donna S. LeroWhy child care fees are problematic / Michael Goldberg -- Working with young children / Jane Bertrand -- Thoughts on child care workers / Annette LaGrange -- Issues in the professionalization of child care / Douglas Hyatt -- The need for a well-trained child care workforce / Marta Juorio -- Conclusions / Gordon Cleveland and Michael Krashinsky.
The need for public commitment and coherent policy / Jane BeachAboriginal perspectives on child care / Margo Greenwood and Perry Shawana -- Family policies and families' well-being: an international comparison / Anne H. Gauthier -- Child care policy and family policy: cross-national examples of integration and inconsistency / Maureen Baker -- Canadian values and the evolution of child care policy / Kathy O'Hara -- How the composition and level of support for families affects children / Shelley Phipps -- What special arrangements are necessary for lone-parent families in a universal child care program? / Gordon Cleveland and Michael Krashinsky -- Investments in comprehensive programming: services for children and single-parent mothers on welfare pay for themselves within one year / Gina Browne, Joanne Roulston, Bonnie Ewart, Michael Schuster, Joey Edwardh and Louise Boily -- The needs of Aboriginal Canadians / Richard Budgell.
