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Nannies, Migration and Early Childhood Education and Care : an International Comparison of in-Home Childcare Policy and Practice /
This book presents new empirical research about in-home child care in Australia, the United Kingdom and Canada, three countries where governments are pursuing new ways to support the recruitment of in-home childcare workers through funding, regulation and migration.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Bristol :
Policy Press,
2017.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Nannies, Migration and Early Childhood Education and Care; Contents; List of tables; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Definition and scope; Why is in-home childcare important?; Trends in maternal employment and ECEC usage; Policy snapshot; Empirical approach; Book structure and chapter outline; Part One. Conceptual and historical analysis of in-home childcare; 1. Restructuring care: concepts and classifications; Rise in non-standard employment; Conceptualising care, redistributing responsibilities ; Markets, regulation and migration.
- Rationales for restructuring: the shift to 'social investment' Ideals of care; 2. Restructuring care: comparative policy developments; Australia; United Kingdom; Canada; Restructuring support for ECEC: a new direction?; 3. Policy structures in Australia, the UK and Canada; Overview of current ECEC systems; Country summary; Intersecting policies for in-home childcare; Contrasts and commonalities; Part Two. Policy intersections and inequalities; 4. Rhetoric and rationales for in-home childcare; The social investment approach; Rhetoric of in-home childcare: rationales for investment.
- Converging ideas and policy tensionsSituating tensions within a broader social investment context; 5. Intersecting inequalities ; Restructuring of inequalities; Families versus care workers; 6. Cultures of in-home childcare ; Concept of care culture; Inequalities and policy debates; Cultures of inequality?; Conclusion ; What has changed?; Why has in-home childcare changed?; Implications for families and care workers; Policy lessons; Why do changes to in-home childcare matter for comparative social policy?; References; Index.