Chapter
Introduction: Exploring the Landscape of Early Childhood Policy
Part I: The Relationship Between Research, Policy and Practice: Regional and Country Case Studies
Chapter 1: Scientific Advice, Policy Formation
and Early Childhood Education and
Care in the EU: The Intersection of
Research, Policy and Practice
Chapter 2: Early Childhood Policies in India: A Historical Analysis
Chapter 3: An Incomplete Revolution? Changes and Challenges within German Early Childhood Education and Care Policy
Chapter 4: A Danish Perspective on Issues in Early Childhood Education and Care Policy
Chapter 5: The Relationship between Early Childhood and Primary Education in France and Sweden: A Policy Focus
Chapter 6: Early Childhood Policy in East Asia and the Asia Pacific Region, with Reference to Myanmar
Chapter 7: Implementing Free Early Childhood Education in a Completely Privatised Market: A Case Study of Hong Kong
Chapter 8: US Early Childhood Policy: Towards a More Coherent Early Childhood Policy in the US
Chapter 9: Documenting Early Childhood Policy in Aotearoa New Zealand: Political and Personal Stories
Chapter 10: Early Childhood Policy in China
Chapter 11: Highlights and Shadows in
ECEC Policy in Latin America
and the Caribbean
Part II: Equitable Early Childhood Services: Intervention to Improve Children’s Life Chances
Chapter 12: Equitable Early Childhood
Services: Intervention to
Improve Children’s Life Chances in
South Africa
Chapter 13: Scaling-up Early Learning as a Sustainable Development Priority: A Case Study of Ethiopia
Chapter 14: Doing More with Less: Innovations in Early Childhood Development from Low-resource Contexts
Chapter 15: What Place for ‘Care’ in
Early Childhood Policy?
Chapter 16: Early Childhood Education and Care: Poverty and Access – Perspectives from England
Chapter 17: School Readiness
Chapter 18: Educare: A Model for US Early Childhood Services
Part III: Extending Practice: The
Role of Early Childhood
Services in Family Support
Chapter 19: A Childcare Social Enterprise:
The London Early Years
Foundation Model
Chapter 20: Supporting Young HIV-AIDS Survivors and Disabled Children in Family Households in Rural South Africa: The Isibindi Model
Chapter 21: Children in Care in
Early Childhood
Chapter 22: Community-based Family
Support: Lessons from Sure Start
Chapter 23: The Role of the Health Sector
in Promoting Well-being in
Early Childhood
Part IV: Participation, Rights
and Diversity
Chapter 24: Supporting (Super)Diversity
in Early Childhood Settings
Chapter 25: Challenges of Practicing Democracy in Polish Preschools
Chapter 26: Te Kōhanga Reo: Early Childhood Education and the Politics of Language and Cultural Maintenance in Aotearoa, New Zealand – A Personal–political Story
Chapter 27: Children’s Rights and Early Childhood Education
Chapter 28: The Lives of Refugee Children:
A Korean Example
Part V: Future Directions for
Early Childhood Policy
Chapter 29: Costs and Benefits of Early
Childhood Education and Care
Chapter 30: Quality of Early Childhood
Education and Care for Children
under Three: Sound Foundations
Chapter 31: The Competent System at the Intersection of Research, Policymaking and Practice
Chapter 32: The Privatisation/Marketisation of ECEC Debate: Social versus Neoliberal Models
Chapter 33: ISSA’s Quality Framework: An Invitation to Policy Dialogue for Building Integration and Alignment in ECEC Systems
Chapter 34: Creating a New Era of Usable Knowledge: Enhancing Early Childhood Development through Systems Research
Chapter 35: The Development of a United ECEC Workforce in New Zealand and England: A Long, Slow and Fitful Journey
Chapter 36: Closing Comments: Future Directions for Early Childhood Policy
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