Alberta's daycare controversy : from 1908 to 2009-- and beyond

Alberta's daycare controversy from 1908 to 2009-- and beyond

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 a...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Langford, Tom, author (author)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Edmonton, Alberta : Athabasca University Press 2011
c2011.
Materias:
Day care centers > Alberta > History.
Day care centers > Government policy > Alberta.
Child care services > Alberta > History.
Child care services > Government policy > Alberta.
daycare
government policy
day care
Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009435016006719
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: research strategy, themes, and scope
  • Early efforts to organize day nurseries, 1908-45
  • The 1960s: citizen action, civil servants, and municipal initiatives lead the way
  • The 1970s: governments fund high-quality day cares as preventive social services
  • Years of turmoil, 1979-82: a new system for day care is born
  • From corporatized chains to 'mom and pop' centres: diversity in commercial day care
  • Day care in question, 1984-99
  • Municipalities and lighthouse child care, 1980-99
  • Day Care into the future: trends, patterns, recent developments, and unresolved issues
  • Appendix A: supplementary tables
  • Appendix B: list of taped interviews.

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