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Author Langford, Tom.

Title Alberta's daycare controversy : from 1908 to 2009-- and beyond / Tom Langford.

Publication Info. Edmonton : AU Press, 2011.

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Description 1 online resource (425 pages).
Physical Medium monochrome
Description text file
Series The West unbound, social and cultural studies, 1915-819X
West unbound, social and cultural studies (Online)
Note Publisher's Web site: http://www.aupress.ca.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Cover; Contents; Tables; Abbreviations; Timeline; Acknowledgements; 1 Introduction: Research Strategy, Themes, and Scope; 2 Early Efforts to Organize Day Nurseries, 1908-45; 3 The 1960s: Citizen Action, Civil Servants, and Municipal Initiatives Lead the Way; 4 The 1970s: Governments Fund High-Quality Day Cares as Preventive Social Services; 5 Years of Turmoil, 1979-82: A New System for Day Care Is Born; 6 From Corporatized Chains to "Mom and Pop" Centres: Diversity in Commercial Day Care; 7 Day Care in Question, 1984-99; 8 Municipalities and Lighthouse Child Care, 1980-99.
Summary Day care in Alberta has had a remarkably durable history as a controversial issue. Since the late 1950s, disputes over day care programs, policies, and funding have been a recurring feature of political life in the province. Alberta's Day Care Controversy traces the development of day care policies and programs in Alberta, with particular emphasis on policy decisions and program initiatives that have provoked considerable debate and struggle among citizens. For most of Alberta's first fifty years as a province, day care was treated as a private rather than a public issue. Beginning in the late.
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Subject Day care centers -- Alberta -- History.
Day care centers.
Alberta.
History.
Day care centers -- Government policy -- Alberta.
Day care centers -- Government policy.
Child care services -- Alberta -- History.
Child care services.
Child care services -- Government policy -- Alberta.
Child care services -- Government policy.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Electronic books -- History.
Other Form: Print version: Langford, Tom. Alberta's Day Care Controversy : From 1908 to 2009 and Beyond. Edmonton : Athabasca University Press, ©2011 9781926836027
ISBN 9781926836034 (electronic book)
1926836030 (electronic book)
9781926836317 (electronic book)
1926836316 (electronic book)
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9781282977884
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Standard No. 9786612977886