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Author May, Helen, 1947- author.

Title Politics in the playground : the world of early childhood in Aotearoa New Zealand / Helen May.

Publication Info. Dunedin, New Zealand : Otago University Press, 2019.
©2019

Item Status

Edition Revised edition.
Description 1 online resource (415 pages)
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Note Previous edition 2009.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Front Cover -- Title Page -- Half Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Introduction: Investing in the Early Years -- Part One / Growth and Expectation 1940s-1960s -- 1. Psychology of Freedom -- Understanding children -- Benefits of play -- Free play at kindergarten -- 'I play and I grow' at Playcentre -- Teaching mothers and motherly teachers -- Playway at school -- Permissive messages to mothers -- Parent campaigns -- 2. Psychology of Disorder -- (Dys)functional families -- Working mothers and maternal deprivation -- The backyard growth of childcare -- Regulating childcare -- Blaming mothers
Illegitimate solutions -- 3. Getting Ahead -- The 'problem' with education for Maori children -- Sylvia Ashton-Warner: 'the little ones' -- Maori children at preschool -- Combating disadvantage with a head start -- Revolution in learning -- Te Kohanga: a chance to be equal -- Part Two / Challenge and Constraint 1960s-1980s -- 4. Politics of Early Childhood -- The end of the feminine mystique -- Children have rights too -- Who gets to preschool? -- Liberating preschoolers -- National constituency for early childhood -- The year of the child -- the world of the child -- 5. Demanding Childcare
Campaign tactics -- Attachment and separation -- Activism and advocacy -- Working women -- 'Story of a recommendation' -- 6. Working with Children -- Rocking the cradle -- Career at Playcentre -- 'Brought to mind' in family daycare -- To 'teach' in kindergarten -- To 'work' in childcare -- 7. Indigenous Rights and Minority Issues -- Maori self-determination -- Te Kohanga Reo: outside the mainstream -- Kura Kaupapa: transition to school -- Early childhood responses -- Pacific Islands early childhood centres -- Part Three / State Interest and Devolution 1980s-1990s 201 -- 8. Winds of Reform
Political shifts -- Against the odds -- A foot in the door -- Implementing Before Five -- National directions -- Parents as First Teachers -- The kindergarten flagship -- 9. Measures of Quality -- Quality discourses -- Who gets to preschool now? -- Weaving Te Whariki -- Qualified to teach -- After Before Five -- Part Four / Strategic Directions 2000s-2010s -- 10. 'Blue Skies in the Playground' -- 'Pathways to the future' -- Pay parity resolutions -- ABC of private enterprise -- 'Nanny State' divides -- Free early childhood education -- 'Travelling the pathways' -- The Plays of Childhood
11. Agendas for Young Children -- Cutting the cost -- ECE Taskforce and An Agenda for Amazing Children -- Participation priorities and the vulnerable child -- A Treaty of Waitangi claim -- Refreshing Te Whariki -- An OECD drama -- Changing worlds of kindergarten and Playcentre -- 'Turning the tide'? -- References -- Abbreviations -- Glossary -- Index
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Subject Education, Preschool -- New Zealand -- History.
Education, Preschool.
New Zealand.
History.
Preschool children -- Care -- New Zealand -- History.
Preschool children -- Care.
Preschool children.
Education, Preschool -- Government policy -- New Zealand.
Education, Preschool -- Government policy.
Preschool children -- Care -- Government policy -- New Zealand.
Government policy.
Chronological Term 1900-1999
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Other Form: Print version: May, Helen. Politics in the Playground : The world of early childhood education in Aotearoa New Zealand. Chicago : Otago University Press, ©2020 9781988531816
ISBN 9780947522735 (electronic book)
0947522735 (electronic book)