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Direct linkFenech, Marianne – Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood, 2011
This article critically analyses how empirical research investigating quality early childhood education and care (ECEC) in the period 1980-2008 has conceptualised "quality". Applying Foucault's notion of "critique" to 338 peer-reviewed journal articles uncovered six interconnected truths: quality is an objective reality; quality enhances…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Journal Articles, Educational Quality, Child Care
Promoting Early Childhood Teacher Professionalism in the Australian Context: The Place of Resistance
Fenech, Marianne; Sumsion, Jennifer; Shepherd, Wendy – Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood, 2010
The early childhood education (ECE) sector in Australia is marked by a habitus where "professionalism" is confined to objective, technical practices. The authors suggest that this is a diminished view of professionalism, and one that compromises high-quality ECE. This article is concerned with how teacher professionalism can be re-imagined and…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Childrens Rights, Foreign Countries, Childhood Interests
Fenech, Marianne; Sumsion, Jennifer – Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood, 2007
This article both supports and complicates the positioning of reconceptualists who frame the regulation of early childhood services as repressive. Drawing on Foucault's construction of power and, in particular, his notion of an "analytics of power", the authors analyse findings from an Australian study investigating university-qualified early…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Power Structure, Foreign Countries, Preschool Teachers
