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Valuing quality in early childhood services : new approaches to defining quality
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- Summary
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`Quality' has become a priority issue for all concerned with early childhood care & education services. Starting from the premise that `quality' is a relative & dynamic concept based on values & be...
`Quality' has become a priority issue for all concerned with early childhood care & education services. Starting from the premise that `quality' is a relative & dynamic concept based on values & beliefs, this text examines how the definitions of quality are established & who is involved in their establishment.
Details
- Creator
- editors, Peter Moss and Alan Pence
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Contributors
- Publication
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- 1st ed
- London : Paul Chapman, c1994
- Physical Details
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- 1 online resource (viii, 183 p.)
- ISBNs
- 9781446252048, 9781853962547, 1446266257, 9781446266250, 1446252043, 1853962546, 9781853962546
- OCLC
- ocn874320050, ocn809966058
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- English
- Cover; Contents; Contributors; Chapter 1 - Defining Quality: Values, Stakeholders and Processes; Chapter 2 - Working in Conflict: Developing a Dynamic Model of Quality; Chapter 3 - Looking at Quality from the Child's Perspective; Chapter 4 - Defining and Valuing Quality as a Parent; Chapter 5 - Measure for Measure: Values, Quality and Evaluation; Chapter 6 - Quality in School-Age Child Care Services: an Inquiry about Values; Chapter 7 - No Equality, no Quality; Chapter 8 - Developing Cross-Cultural Partnerships: Implications for Child Care Quality Research and Practice
- Chapter 9 - The New Zealand Experience of Charter Development in Early Childhood ServicesChapter 10 - Fragments for a Discussion about Quality; Chapter 11 - Evaluation and Regulation: A Question of Empowerment; Chapter 12 - Towards an Inclusionary Approach in Defining Quality; Index