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Cleveland, Gordon; Colley, Susan – International Journal of Early Childhood, 2013
"Starting Strong" (2001) and "Starting Strong II" (2006), the OECD Reports on early childhood education services in 20 countries, emphasized the need for governments to take steps to integrate early childhood education and care services: child care and kindergarten in particular. Integration has become a policy agenda that…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Early Childhood Education, Child Care, Comparative Education
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Lyons, Lesley – International Journal of Early Childhood, 2013
The concept of inclusion in the New Zealand legislative and policy environment is articulated in a liberal human rights discourse intended to redress past practices of segregation and exclusion. Such discourse has provided the early childhood sector with new ways to speak about disability and inclusion. There is, however, a growing body of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Early Childhood Education, Disabilities, Inclusion
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Cederman, Kaye – International Journal of Early Childhood, 2008
The article critiques the innovative policy documents constructing New Zealand early childhood pedagogies since the advent of the first curriculum "Te Whariki" (1996) and argues that the two most compelling of these reflect the consumerist experiences of childhood today. The acclaim which followed the publication of "Te…
Descriptors: Pacific Islanders, Young Children, Biculturalism, Foreign Countries