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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...
Early childhood education and care in Canada
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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
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In 2021, the Government of Canada committed to providing sustained funding to provinces and territories to expand access to more affordable child care. The ultimate goal is to create a Canada-wide early learning and child care plan to drive economic growth, support women's workforce participation, and give every Canadian child a head start. Achieving these objectives requires a qualified early childhood education workforce. The early childhood education workforce is large, with 300,000 plus members representing more than1% of the working population. Workforce members can be found in many sectors, including licensed child care, health, education, family support, and settlement services. Every Canadian jurisdiction has legislation governing the provision of regulated, or licensed, 1 child care services. This report focuses on those working in child care centres or group care. It provides a status report on today's child care workforce and the challenges it faces, along with promising practices. It concludes with a series of recommendations. The intent is to draw attention to the centrality of educators in creating Canada's newest social program and the policies and resources they require to make it a success.
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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.
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The Early Childhood Education Report 2017 is the third assessment of provincial and territorial frameworks for early childhood education in Canada. Nineteen benchmarks, organized into five equally weighted categories, evaluate governance structures, funding levels, access, quality in early learning environments and the rigour of accountability mechanisms. Results are populated from detailed provincial and territorial profiles developed by the researchers and reviewed by provincial and territorial officials. Researchers and officials co-determine the benchmarks assigned. We are pleased to welcome Nunavut and Yukon as new participants in this edition. ECEReport.ca includes the profiles for each jurisdiction, including the federal government, plus the methodology that shapes the report, references, charts and figures and materials from past reports.