TY - JOUR
T1 - Inequality, social justice and the purpose of Early Childhood Education
AU - Press, Frances
AU - Cooke, Mandy
AU - Gibbs, Leanne
AU - Warren, Robyn
PY - 2021
Y1 - 2021
N2 - Early childhood education and care (ECEC) – as with education more generally – should be a central plank of a suite of social policies designed to support more socially just societies. However, universal access to ECEC in itself, will not redress inequalities. This paper draws upon reports from the Australian Children’s Education and Care Quality Authority (ACECQA), and data from three doctoral studies nested within the Australian Exemplary Early Childhood Educators at Work research project, to argue for attention to the quality of the early childhood system and to consider the contribution that a deeply embedded socially just purpose makes to quality.
AB - Early childhood education and care (ECEC) – as with education more generally – should be a central plank of a suite of social policies designed to support more socially just societies. However, universal access to ECEC in itself, will not redress inequalities. This paper draws upon reports from the Australian Children’s Education and Care Quality Authority (ACECQA), and data from three doctoral studies nested within the Australian Exemplary Early Childhood Educators at Work research project, to argue for attention to the quality of the early childhood system and to consider the contribution that a deeply embedded socially just purpose makes to quality.
U2 - https://doi.org/10.3224/diskurs.v16i4.09
DO - https://doi.org/10.3224/diskurs.v16i4.09
M3 - Article
VL - 16
SP - 510
EP - 524
JO - Discourse: Journal of Childhood and Adolescence Research
JF - Discourse: Journal of Childhood and Adolescence Research
SN - 1862-5002
IS - 4
ER -
