| Description |
xxvii, 260 pages ; 25 cm |
| Contents |
Emerging trans-Tasman dialogues / Helen Hedges and Linda Keesing-Styles -- SECTION ONE EMERGING DIALOGUES : PERSPECTIVES ON CURRICULUM -- Ch. 1 Theory, policy and practice : three contexts for the development of Austalasia's early childhood curriculum documents / Joce Nuttall and Suzy Edwards -- Ch. 2 Developmental colonisation of early childhood education in Aotearoa / New Zealand and Australia / Sandy Farquhar and Marilyn Fleer -- Ch. 3 Building connections : assessment and evaluation revisited / Ann Hatherly and Carmel Richardson -- Ch. 4 Infant-toddler care and education in Australia and Aotearoa-New Zealand : in search of status / Bernice Nyland and Jean Rockel -- SECTION TWO EMERGING DIALOGUES : PERSPECTIVES ON DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION -- Ch. 5 Forging ahead : moving towards inclusive and anti-discriminatory education / Karina Davis ... [et al.] -- Ch. 6 Boys and boyhoods : the problems and possibilities of equity and gender diversity in early childhood settings / Alexandra Gunn and Glena MacNaughton -- Ch. 7 Indigenous peoples and perspectives in early childhood education / Michael Colbung ... [et al.] -- SECTION THREE EMERGING DIALOGUES : PERSPECTIVES ON PROFESSIONAL ISSUES -- Ch. 8 Critical issues for the early childhood profession / Helen Aitken and Anne Kennedy -- Ch. 9 Practitioner research 'Centre State' : contexts, contributions and challenges / Joy Goodfellow and Helen Hedges -- Ch. 10 Connections, dissension and dialogue : the role of teacher education in promoting social justice / Linda Keesing-Styles and Jennifer Sumison -- Ch. 11 Challenges for leadership in Aotearoa/New Zealand and Australian early childhood contexts / Lyn Fasoli, Cushla Scrivens and Christine Woodrow |
| Summary |
Early childhood education is a collaborative undertaking. Mutual interests and concerns and joint efforts are hallmarks of the the field. This volume represents a new form of collective venture: writers from Australia and New Zealand teaming up and joining forces to write about current issues critical to the sector |
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Australia |
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Diversity |
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Inclusive education |
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New Zealand |
| Notes |
"An Australian-New Zealand collaboration" |
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Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
In English |
| Subject |
Early childhoo education -- Australia
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Early childhood education -- Curricula.
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Early childhood education -- Australia.
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Early childhood education -- New Zealand.
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Inclusive education -- Australia.
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Inclusive education -- New Zealand.
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| Author |
Hedges, Helen.
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Keesing-Styles, Linda.
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| ISBN |
1876138262 |
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9781876138264 |
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