Care and learning together
UNESCO
Yoshie Kaga,, John Bennett and Peter Moss,1 May 2010
Early childhood education and care systems in the OECD countries: The issue of tradition and governance
Encyclopedia on Early Childhood Development
John Bennett, 8 Jul 08
Toward a new pedagogical meeting place? Bringing early childhood into the education system
Briefing paper for a Nuffield Educational Seminar
Peter Moss & John Bennett, Nuffield Foundation, 26 Sep 06
Full day kindergarten: A study of state policies in the United States
Education Commission of the States
Kristie Kauerz, 1 Jun 05
An integrated approach to early childhood education and care
Commissioned Study, UNESCO Early Childhood and Family Policy Series no.3
Lenira Haddad, EDUCERE Centro de Formação para a Educação Infantil, 1 Oct 02
Models integrating care and early childhood education
CANADA
From vision to action: Early childhood education and care in 2020
Childcare Resource and Research Unit
Martha Friendly and Susan Prentice
This BRIEFing NOTE comprises the last chapter of About Canada: Childcare, by Friendly and Prentice, published by Fernwood Publishers in May 2009. It presents a vision for what an universal early childhood education and care system in Canada could look like from the program to the policy level, exploring the potential for Canada to move from a patchwork of disjointed programs to a comprehensive high quality system and suggests changes that would put such a system in place.
SWEDEN
In 1998 responsibility for the Swedish preschool was moved from the Ministry of Health and Social Affairs to the Ministry of Education and Science. Preschool received its own curriculum and became the first step for children into the overall education system.
Ten years after the preschool reform
Swedish National Agency for Education (Skolverket), 1 Dec 08
Early years - How do they do it in Sweden?
Video
Teachers TV (UK), 18 Sept 06
Pre-school in transition: A national evaluation of the Swedish pre-school
Swedish National Agency for Education (Skolverket), 1 Jan 04
Integrating early childhood into education: The case of Sweden
UNESCO Policy Brief on Early Childhood, no. 3
United Nations, 1 May 02
Curriculum for pre-school [Sweden]
Swedish National Agency for Education (Sloverket), 1 Jan 01
OCED Thematic Review of ECEC: Sweden Country Note and Swedish Background Report
Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development, 1 Dec 99
See pp. 26-29 for discussion of Structure, Organization and Cohesion or ECEC Services.
Early childhood education and care policy in Sweden
Background report prepared for the OECD Thematic Review of Early Childhood Education and Care Policy
Regeringskansliet, Ministry of Education and Science Sweden, 1 Dec 99
NEW ZEALAND
In 1986, childcare, kindergartens and play centres (parent co-operatives) were integrated under the Department/Ministry of Education. In the context of a curriculum reform in 1990, New Zealand's first national early childhood curriculum was created, Te Whāriki (1993, 1996). This holistic curriculum focuses on family/parent/community links and Maori language and culture.
Te Whàriki He Whàriki Màtauranga mò ngà Mokopuna o Aotearoa (Early Childhood Curriculum)
Ministry of Education, New Zealand, 1 Jan 06
Early childhood education policy co-ordination under the auspices of the Department/ Ministry of Education: A case study of New Zealand
UNESCO, Early Childhood and Family Policy Series No.1,
Anne Meade & Valerie N. Podmore, Victoria University of Wellington, 1 Mar 02