Our Children's Future : Child Care Policy in Canada
Record details
- ISBN: 9781442678163
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (280 p.)
remote
Computer data. - Publisher: Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2019]
- Copyright: ©2001
Content descriptions
General Note: | CatMonthString:january.23 Multi-User. |
Formatted Contents Note: | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Contributors (in order of appearance in the book) -- Introduction -- Part 1. Child Care and the Social Union: Who Should Do What? -- Introduction -- 1. Child Care and Canadian Federalism in the 1990s: Canary in a Coal Mine -- 2. The Politics of Child Care in Canada: Provincial and Federal Governments -- 3. The Federal Imperative -- 4. Child Care and the Social Union Framework Agreement: Lament or Leverage? -- Discussion -- Part 2. What the Rest of Canada Can Learn from Quebec and from Other Countries -- Introduction -- 5. What We Can Learn from the Quebec Experience -- 6. Getting Good Child Care for Families: What Can Canada Learn from Other Countries? -- Discussion -- Part 3. What Is Good Quality Child Care and How Do We Get It? -- Introduction -- 7. Moving towards Achieving Quality Child Care -- 8. Training, Quality, and the Lived Experience of Child Care -- 9. The Role of Caregiver Training -- 10. The Professionalization Process in Child Care -- Discussion -- Part 4. How Will Good Child Care Services Be Delivered: Education System or Community Services? -- Introduction -- 11. Education and Child Care: Confronting New Realities -- 12. The Case for Community-Governed Child Care Services -- 13. How Should Child Care Be Provided? -- 14. The Need for Public Commitment and Coherent Policy -- 15. Aboriginal Perspectives on Child Care -- Authors' Responses -- Authors' Responses -- Discussion -- Part 5. What Family Policies Are Needed to Complement Universal Child Care? -- Introduction -- 16. Family Policies and Families' Wellbeing: An International Comparison -- 17. Child Care Policy and Family Policy: Cross-National Examples of Integration and Inconsistency -- 18. Canadian Values and the Evolution of Child Care Policy -- 19. How the Composition and Level of Support for Families Affects Children -- Discussion -- Part 6. Single Parents, Child Poverty, and Children at Risk: What Special Child Care Policies Are Needed? -- Introduction -- 20. What Special Arrangements Are Necessary for Lone-Parent Families in a Universal Child Care Program? -- 21. Investments in Comprehensive Programming: Services for Children and Single-Parent Mothers on Welfare Pay for Themselves within One Year -- 22. The Needs of Aboriginal Canadians -- 23. Learning from Experience: Can We Check Old Assumptions and Categorical Thinking at the Door? -- 24. Why Child Care Fees Are Problematic -- Authors' Responses -- Discussion -- Part 7. Child Care Workers: What Qualifications, Pay, and Organizations Should They Have? -- Introduction -- 25. Working with Young Children -- 26. Thoughts on Child Care Workers -- 27. Issues in the Professionalization of Child Care -- 28. The Need for a Well-Trained Child Care Workforce -- Author's Response -- Discussion -- Conclusions |
Restrictions on Access Note: | restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization |
Type of Computer File or Data Note: | Text (HTML), electronic book. |
Additional Physical Form available Note: | Issued also in print. |
System Details Note: | Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. Mode of access: Internet. |
Terms Governing Use and Reproduction Note: | Access requires VIU IP addresses and is restricted to VIU students, faculty and staff. Access restricted through purchase. |
Language Note: | In English. |
Issuing Body Note: | Made available online by publisher. |
Source of Description Note: | Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 29. Mrz 2022) |
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Subject: | Multi-User. FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / Parenting / General Child care -- Canada Child care -- Government policy -- Canada |