Early Childhood Education Report 2014

2018

Key findings ECEC in Canada 2016: Key Findings [3] (Revised 31/5/2018, 3pp) ECEC in Canada 2016: Les faits saillants du rapport [4] (Revised 31/5/2018, 4pp) The Childcare Resource and Research Unit's (CRRU) new report Early childhood education and care in Canada 2016 is its 11th compilation of Canada-wide data on child care and related early childhood and family programs. It considers child care space provision, budget allocations, and service delivery information in the 2014-2016 period, comparing these to previous years. The report provides detailed provincial/territorial descriptive information on kindergarten and child care programs (such as teacher/educator training, ratios, group/class size, pedagogy and governance) as well as pertinent demographic data such as the number of children and mothers' employment rates. It also offers a Canada-wide overview of how ECEC services are organized, the federal role, Indigenous ECEC services, information on maternity and parental l...

Studies in Political Economy, 2008

2002

Martha Friendly, Jane Beach and Michelle Turiano December 2002 Early childhood education and care in Canada 2001. Martha Friendly, Jane Beach and Michelle Turiano Childcare Resource and Research Unit Centre for Urban and Community Studies December 2002, xxiv, 180 ...

International Perspectives on Early Childhood Education and Care, 2018

There is ongoing debate on the quality of early childhood and care (ECEC) in Western countries, including Canada. The biggest drawback of Canadian ECEC is that it has no national policy framework for program delivery. Alan Pence, in a postscript to this book, refers to a European Commission (2009) report, according to which, to promote social cohesion, it is important to provide equal opportunities for all families to receive high-quality ECEC services. When families receive these services, they gain opportunities to work while balancing their family lives. Most European countries have tried to achieve these services but Canada is a little behind. Nina Howe and Larry Prochner's edited anthology hopes to help improve the quality of early childhood experiences of Canadian children and families. This book consists of essays on various issues that provide a strong argument for change in the field of ECEC in Canada. The book is divided into three parts and each part is set under a different theme. Each chapter ends with a commentary from an expert in the field. Collectively, the essays in each theme cover the past, present, and future of early childhood education in Canada. According to the editors' introduction, the idea of organizing this book came from a small workshop called New Directions in Early Childhood Education, held at

2003

Arguing that quality early childhood education and care (ECEC) contributes to meeting goals that strengthen Canadians and Canadian society, this paper discusses the support found for ECEC within the nation; maintains that ECEC is a broad issue that bridges socioeconomic, ethnic, and regional divisions; and addresses the main problems and issues in developing a national system of ECEC in Canada. The paper begins with a discussion of the support for ECEC by diverse sectors of public policy and of the public at large: This section notes that the main problem is the absence of a coherent, well-developed national approach to ECEC. At the program delivery level, accessibility and quality are described as problematic. The paper then presents a long-term vision for quality ECEC nationwide and delineates guiding principles for program development. Suggestions are offered regarding the roles and responsibilities of the federal and provincial governments and for policy development, community involvement, planning, reporting on progress, knowledge sharing and research, and financing. A 4-year plan is presented involving: (1) articulation of the intention and the long-term goal of universally accessible high-quality ECEC to be developed within 10 to 15 years; (2) establishment of a Directorate for ECEC within the federal government; and (3) a fiscal commitment of new dollars that considers an initial policy development and planning period and provincial/territorial capabilities to use federal funds. The paper concludes by asserting that a renewed and reoriented federal strategy for a well-crafted national ECEC system addressing the needs and aspirations of all families must be at the heart of a renewed social policy mission for Canada in the twenty-first century. (KB) Reproductions supplied by EDRS are the best that can be made from the original document. Public opinion poll conducted by Millward Brown Goldfarb for the Child Care Advocacy Association of Canada and the Canadian Child Care Federation (January, 2003).

2009

Early Childhood Care and Education in Canada is a collection of essays that reflects the international trend of reexamining early childhood services in fresh ways by studying historical developments in child care (CC) and early education and the range of early childhood care and education (ECCE) programs currently available in Canada. The multidisciplinary nature of the collection shows the variations in ECCE. It examines the key issues in the field as determined by the authors: the origins of the programs currently available to parents, the policies that guide these programs, the preparation of the adults who work in these programs, the nature of the adults' work with children in these programs, and the research that reflects the work in these programs. The authors, who come from a variety of scholarly disciplines including psychology, sociology, history, teacher education, social policy analysis, education, and research bring together these points of view by describing the development of ECCE in Canada.

2000

This paper is one of several intended to consider early childhood care and education within the context of Canada's National Children's Agenda. The paper takes the position that a blended, coherent system of early childhood development programs incorporating child care, Reproductions supplied by EDRS are the best that can be made from the original document.

Based on the premise that Canada needs to collect, collate, analyze, and disseminate reliable data on early childhood education and care (ECEC) programs that are comparable across provinces/territories and that good data are fundamental for informing policy, research, and service delivery, the National Data Project was funded in 2000-2001 to produce a strategy for the development of reliable, comparable ECEC data in Canada. Following an executive summary, the report is presented in five sections. Section 1 describes current ECEC practices, and federal/provincial initiatives and offers a thumbnail sketch of the state of Canada's ECEC data. Section 2 analyzes the purposes and requirements for which ECEC data should be collected, organized, analyzed, and used. This part also discusses the value of indicators and the use of data to support a program of research. Section 3 outlines and describes current and past data collection in Canada and presents some international data approache...

Our Children's Future, 2001