The Council of Australian Government Reforms [2007鈥?013]: a critical juncture in Australian early childhood education and care (ECEC) policy?

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• 作者：Helen Logan ; Jennifer Sumsion ; Frances Press
• 关键词：Council of Australian Governments (COAG) reforms ; Critical juncture ; Policy change ; Quality ; Discourse ; Qualified staff
• 刊名：International Journal of Child Care and Education Policy
• 出版年：2015
• 出版时间：December 2015
• 年：2015
• 卷：9
• 期：1
• 全文大小：530KB
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• 作者单位：Helen Logan (1)
  Jennifer Sumsion (1)
  Frances Press (1)
  
  1. Charles Sturt University, Panorama Avenue, Bathurst, NSW, 2795, Australia
  
• 刊物类别：Childhood Education; Educational Policy and Politics;
• 刊物主题：Childhood Education; Educational Policy and Politics;
• 出版者：Springer Singapore
• ISSN：2288-6729

文摘

Between 2007 and 2013, the Council of Australian Governments (COAG) introduced major national policy reforms to improve quality in early childhood education and care (ECEC) (Brennan and Adamson, 2014). By analysing policy documents underpinning the COAG reforms for early childhood, this article contends these reforms have been so far-reaching that, conceivably, they could have a lasting impact on systems and structures designed to improve quality in ECEC and fundamentally alter the trajectory of future policies. To this extent, they could eventually prove to constitute a critical juncture (Hogan and Doyle 2009; Pierson, Politics in time: history, institutions, and social analysis, 2004) in Australian ECEC policy history. In this article, we speculate about whether history will position the COAG reforms as a critical juncture in policy or see them weakened by policy moves that erode provision of quality in ECEC. We argue that studying the potentiality of critical junctures in ECEC policy illuminates the complexity of policy production and provides insights into the nature of future policies. Keywords Council of Australian Governments (COAG) reforms Critical juncture Policy change Quality Discourse Qualified staff