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Our Children's Future : Child Care Policy in Canada /
Since 1997 Quebec has offered licensed child care services for $5 per day to its entire population. British Columbia has begun its own program of universal subsidization of licensed child care services for five and six year old children. With this in mind, and the belief that Canadian governments an...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Toronto :
University of Toronto Press,
[2019]
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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