 Reinventing Early Care and Education: A Vision for a Quality System
ISBN: 978-0-7879-0319-0
Hardcover
352 pages
November 1996, Jossey-Bass
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1. Introduction: The Changing Context of American Early Care and Education
Part One: Quality Programs: The Case for an Expanded Definition
2. Parents' Perspectives on Quality in Early Care and Education (Mary Larner)
3. Reframing the Quality Issue(Deborah Phillips)
4. International Approaches to Defining Quality(Jennifer Bush, Deborah Phillips)
5. Multicultural Perspectives on Quality(Nancy E. Cohen, Delia Pompa)
Part Two: The Infrastructure: The Case for a Quality System
6. Licensing: Lessons from Other Occupations(Anne Mitchell)
7. Training and Professional Development: International Approaches(Eliza Pritchard)
8. Regulation: Alternative Approaches from Other Fields(Katherine L. Scurria)
9. Governance: Child Care, Federalism, and Public Policy(William T. Gormley, Jr.)
10. Funding and Financing: Moving Toward a More Universal System(Martin H. Gerry)
11. Quality Infrastructure for Family Child Care(Shelby H. Miller)
Part Three: Implementing Change
12. Media and Mass Communications Strategies,(Kathy Bonk, Meredith Wile)
13. Citizen Participation: Transforming Access Into Influence(Christopher Howard)
14. Organizing Communities and Constituents for Change(Ernesto Cortes, Jr.)
15. Understanding the Complexities of Educational Change(Ann Liberman, Diane Wood, Beverly Falk)
16. The Synchrony of Stakeholders: Lessons from the Disabilities Rights Movement(H. Rutherford Turnbull, Ann P. Turnbull)
Part Four: Creating a Quality Early Care and Education System
17. A Vision for a Quality Early Care and Education System(Sharon L. Kagan, Nancy E. Cohen)
18. Getting from Here to There: The Process and the Players(Nancy E. Cohen, Sharon L. Kagan)
Part One: Quality Programs: The Case for an Expanded Definition
2. Parents' Perspectives on Quality in Early Care and Education (Mary Larner)
3. Reframing the Quality Issue(Deborah Phillips)
4. International Approaches to Defining Quality(Jennifer Bush, Deborah Phillips)
5. Multicultural Perspectives on Quality(Nancy E. Cohen, Delia Pompa)
Part Two: The Infrastructure: The Case for a Quality System
6. Licensing: Lessons from Other Occupations(Anne Mitchell)
7. Training and Professional Development: International Approaches(Eliza Pritchard)
8. Regulation: Alternative Approaches from Other Fields(Katherine L. Scurria)
9. Governance: Child Care, Federalism, and Public Policy(William T. Gormley, Jr.)
10. Funding and Financing: Moving Toward a More Universal System(Martin H. Gerry)
11. Quality Infrastructure for Family Child Care(Shelby H. Miller)
Part Three: Implementing Change
12. Media and Mass Communications Strategies,(Kathy Bonk, Meredith Wile)
13. Citizen Participation: Transforming Access Into Influence(Christopher Howard)
14. Organizing Communities and Constituents for Change(Ernesto Cortes, Jr.)
15. Understanding the Complexities of Educational Change(Ann Liberman, Diane Wood, Beverly Falk)
16. The Synchrony of Stakeholders: Lessons from the Disabilities Rights Movement(H. Rutherford Turnbull, Ann P. Turnbull)
Part Four: Creating a Quality Early Care and Education System
17. A Vision for a Quality Early Care and Education System(Sharon L. Kagan, Nancy E. Cohen)
18. Getting from Here to There: The Process and the Players(Nancy E. Cohen, Sharon L. Kagan)
