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50 Years of ERIC
50 Years of ERIC
The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) is celebrating its 50th Birthday! First opened on May 15th, 1964 ERIC continues the long tradition of ongoing innovation and enhancement.

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"Doing" Social Justice in Early Childhood: The Potential of Leadership
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Hard, Louise; Press, Frances; Gibson, Megan – Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood, 2013
Early childhood education has long been connected with objectives related to social justice. Australian early childhood education and care (ECEC) has its roots in philanthropic and educational reform movements prevalent at the turn of the twentieth century. More recently, with the introduction of the National Early Childhood Reform Agenda, early…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Early Childhood Education, Social Justice, Educational Change
Influences on Politicians' Decision Making for Early Childhood Education and Care Policy: What Do We know? What Don't We Know?
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Bown, Kathryn; Sumsion, Jennifer; Press, Frances – Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood, 2009
Politicians play a key role in determining policy content and outcomes for early childhood education and care (ECEC). As a result, the quality of formal ECEC provisions for children rests considerably on the policy decisions of politicians. Despite direct and indirect effects of politicians' policy decisions for the ECEC field, few studies explore…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Young Children, Decision Making, Educational Policy
Early Childhood Activism, Minor Politics and Resuscitating Vision: A Tentative Foray into the Use of "Intersections" to Influence Early Childhood Policy
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Press, Frances; Skattebol, Jen – Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood, 2007
Many postmodern and post-structural analyses of government policies affecting early childhood education stress the hegemonic nature of neo-liberalism and subsequently primarily focus upon identifying the manifestation of neo-liberal values in such interventions. An unintended and stultifying consequence of such analyses is, at times, to close off…
Descriptors: Public Policy, Educational Policy, Early Childhood Education, Social Justice