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1 online resource (xvi, 416 pages) : illustrations |
Physical Medium |
polychrome |
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text file |
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Includes edited papers, comments on those papers, and summaries of floor discussions from symposium entitled, Good Child Care in Canada for the 21st Century : Preparing the Policy Map. |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
Contents |
Child care and Canadian federalism in the 1990s: Canary in a coal mine / Martha Friendly -- The politics of child care in Canada: provincial and federal governments / Bob Rae -- The federal imperative / Tom Kent -- Child care and the social union framework agreement: lament or leverage? / Alfred MacLeod -- What we can learn from the Quebec experience / Jocelyne Tougas -- Getting good child care for families: What can Canada learn from other countries / Helen Penn -- Moveing towards achieving quality child care / Gillian Doherty -- Training, quality and the lived experience of child care / Hillel Goelman -- The role of caregiver training / Ellen Vineberg Jacobs -- The professionalization process in child care / June Pollard, Judy Bernhard and Pat Carson -- Education and child care: confronting new realities / Penny Milton -- The case for community-governed child care services / Susan Prentice -- How should child care be provided? / Julie Mathien. |
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The need for public commitment and coherent policy / Jane Beach -- Aboriginal perspectives on child care / Margo Greenwood and Perry Shawana -- Family policies and families' well-being: an international comparison / Anne H. Gauthier -- Child care policy and family policy: cross-national examples of integration and inconsistency / Maureen Baker -- Canadian values and the evolution of child care policy / Kathy O'Hara -- How the composition and level of support for families affects children / Shelley Phipps -- What special arrangements are necessary for lone-parent families in a universal child care program? / Gordon Cleveland and Michael Krashinsky -- Investments in comprehensive programming: services for children and single-parent mothers on welfare pay for themselves within one year / Gina Browne, Joanne Roulston, Bonnie Ewart, Michael Schuster, Joey Edwardh and Louise Boily -- The needs of Aboriginal Canadians / Richard Budgell. |
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Learning from experience: can we check old assumptions and categorical thinking at the door? / Donna S. Lero -- Why child care fees are problematic / Michael Goldberg -- Working with young children / Jane Bertrand -- Thoughts on child care workers / Annette LaGrange -- Issues in the professionalization of child care / Douglas Hyatt -- The need for a well-trained child care workforce / Marta Juorio -- Conclusions / Gordon Cleveland and Michael Krashinsky. |
Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
Subject |
Child care -- Government policy -- Canada.
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Child care -- Government policy. |
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Canada. |
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Child care. |
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Child care services -- Government policy -- Canada.
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Child care services -- Government policy. |
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Child care services. |
Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Added Author |
Cleveland, Gordon.
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Krashinsky, Michael, 1947-
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Other Form: |
Print version: Our children's future. Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, ©2001 9780802046956 (DLC) 2001273018 (OCoLC)44906022 |
ISBN |
9781442678163 (electronic book) |
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144267816X (electronic book) |
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0802046959 (bound) |
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0802082750 (paperback) |
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9780802046956 |
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9780802082756 |
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