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Title: More than a shortage of early childhood teachers : looking beyond the recruitment of university qualified teachers to promote quality early childhood education
Related: Asia-Pacific journal of teacher education, Vol. 37, No. 2, p.199-213
DOI: 10.1080/13598660902804022
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 2009
Author/Creator: Fenech, Marianne
Author/Creator: Waniganayake, Manjula
Author/Creator: Fleet, Alma
Description: n Australia and internationally, government policies aim to increase the supply of early childhood teachers and thus improve the quality of early childhood education and care services. In this paper, we suggest that such a policy-quality trajectory in Australia is not as straightforward as policy discourses suggest. From industrial relations and broader policy contexts, we argue that the early childhood profession is a profession on the margins and that this marginalisation complicates efforts to enhance numbers of early childhood teachers. Mindful of this marginalisation, we draw upon preliminary findings from a study exploring the motivations, beliefs and expectations of mature age postgraduate students to highlight practical issues pertaining to students and early childhood teacher education programs that further complicate policy drives to increase the supply of early childhood teachers. We propose that the success of such policy drives is dependent on a comprehensive addressing of the complexities raised in this paper.
Description: 15 page(s)
Subject Keyword: early childhood education
Subject Keyword: early childhood policy
Subject Keyword: postgraduate study
Subject Keyword: quality
Resource Type: journal article
Organisation: Macquarie University. Institute of Early Childhood

Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.14/73841
Identifier: ISSN:1469-2945
Identifier: mq-rm-2008001086
Language: eng
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