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Title Our children's future : child care policy in Canada / edited by Gordon Cleveland and Michael Krashinsky.

Publication Info. Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, [2001]
©2001

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Description 1 online resource (xvi, 416 pages) : illustrations
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Note 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.
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.
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.
Child care -- Government policy.
Canada.
Child care.
Child care services -- Government policy -- Canada.
Child care services -- Government policy.
Child care services.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author Cleveland, Gordon.
Krashinsky, Michael, 1947-
Other Form: Print version: Our children's future. Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, ©2001 9780802046956 (DLC) 2001273018 (OCoLC)44906022
ISBN 9781442678163 (electronic book)
144267816X (electronic book)
0802046959 (bound)
0802082750 (paperback)
9780802046956
9780802082756