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Opportunities and challenges for early childhood education
Cadernos de Educação Infância, September 2022
In this article, Peter Moss discusses the main opportunities and challenges currently facing early childhood education: how to respond to the new conditions of the times and how to contribute to the future. Focusing on the environmental crisis and the failure of neoliberal politics as the most urgent conditions influencing present and future life, Moss argues that early childhood education can play a role in promoting democracy, solidarity and caring in society by fostering these qualities in children through their lived experience of education and educational relationships, making the case for fully integrated and public systems of early childhood education.
ON: Whatever happened to affordable childcare?
CBC Radio, 5 October 2022
ON: How intense pressure from for-profit daycares has transformed Ontario’s rollout of $10-a-day child care — and sparked a political standoff
Toronto Star, 2 October 2022
Research, policy and practice
Stop ‘under-mind-ing’ early childhood educators: Honouring subjectivity in pre-service education to build intellectual and relational capacities
Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood, 3 October 2022
In this article, a professor and a field liaison (faculty members who support students during field placements) examine subjectivity as a counterforce of developmental theories in early childhood education (ECE) and prescriptive approaches to pre-service ECE curriculum. The authors share ways in which pre-service programs can create conditions to build intellectual and relation capacities in students by leaning into concepts of subjectivity. The authors offer thoughts on how early learning frameworks and pre-service ECE coursework and placement can and should resist "performative practice", "efficiency work of curriculum plan" and continually make space for multiple and critical perspectives that engage and honour the educator's capacities, values and living experiences.
Early educator compensation: Findings from the 2020 California Early Care and Education Workforce Study
Center for the Study of Child Care Employment, 23 August 2022
This US report provides statewide and regional data on income and benefits of California’s licensed home-based and centre-based early childhood educators by role, education level, program type and funding. Data show that family child care providers and educators in state-contracted and federally funded programs reported higher incomes than those in voucher-subsidized programs. Likewise, staff in programs with public funding were more likely to have health insurance or access employer-sponsored insurance than those in voucher-subsidized centres or centres with no public funding. The recommendations call for: consultation with the workforce, establishment of compensation standards for all settings, and sufficient public funding to programs with conditions to meet compensation standards. The report provides an interactive map of median wages across the state.
Listening to land as teacher in early childhood education
University of Toronto, November 2021
Responding to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s Calls to Action (2015) to develop “culturally appropriate early childhood education for Aboriginal families,” Dr. Hopi Martin’s thesis brings together Elders, Knowledge Keepers, and educators to share their perspectives on land-based pedagogies for young children. The author describes the process of bringing Indigenous knowledge and pedagogies into colonized early childhood spaces and the impact they have on educators’ practice. Dr. Martin is currently sharing his learning in a 4-part webinar series on seasonal pedagogy and early childhood education, more information in the Events section.
Child care in the news
ON: National child care doesn’t include businesses run for profit
Toronto Star, 5 October 2022
ON: Majority of licensed child care providers showing interest in subsidized system
The Wellington Advertiser, 5 October 2022
ON: Naureen Rizvi to Ford and Lecce: Stop the erosion of public accountability and wage cap in child care rules
Unifor, 28 September 2022
MB: 24 Manitoba child-care facilities get funding boost for Indigenous programming
CBC News, 28 September 2022
BC: More affordable child care coming to Shuswap area
CFJC Today, 4 October 2022
BC: More families in Surrey benefit from $10-a-day child care
Government of British Columbia, 3 October 2022
BC: More families in Nanaimo-North Cowichan benefit from $10-a-day child care
Cowichan Valley Citizen, 3 October 2022
BC: Early childhood education program enrolment rises in B.C.
Government of British Columbia, 29 September 2022
BC: Haida Gwaii School District creates a new district principal role to take on childcare
The Northern View, 28 September 2022
NT: GNWT releases What We Heard report on Child Day Care Act
Government of Northwest Territories, 29 September 2022
AU: There is a simple path to affordable childcare in Australia. Does Labor have the courage to take it?
The Guardian, 27 September 2022
UK: Toddlers, stop your running around: Liz Truss is coming for you
The Guardian, 3 October 2022
UK: It’s childcare, not the NHS, that holds the key to Labour winning the next election
iNews, 28 September 2022
US: The child care crisis just keeps getting worse
Vox, 27 September 2022
US: Teachers, nurses, and child-care workers have had enough
The Atlantic, 27 September 2022
Event
ON: Seasonal pedagogy part 2/4 movement: Walking together on mother earth through the four seasons in early childhood education
Association of Early Childhood Educators Ontario (AECEO), 11 October 2022, 19:00–20:30 EDT
AECEO is hosting a second session in their seasonal pedagogy webinar series on listening to land as a teacher through a ‘many-eyed seeing’ approach, led with a sharing circle by Dr. Hopi Martin Gichitaawa Oshkaabewis. The session will include a panel with educators who took part in creating the first urban "bush school" in Tkaronto (Toronto). Participants will have the chance to ask questions about their experience of ‘walking together’ and meeting at the ‘edge of the bush’.
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