Rethinking early childhood workforce sustainability in the context of Australia's early childhood education and care reforms

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• 作者：Tamara Cumming ; Jennifer Sumsion…
• 关键词：Early childhood education ; Early childhood educators ; Early childhood teachers ; Post structural theory ; Australia
• 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：1050KB
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• 作者单位：Tamara Cumming (1) (2)
  Jennifer Sumsion (1)
  Sandie Wong (1) (2)
  
  1. Research Institute for Professional Practice, Learning and Education, Charles Sturt University, Wagga Wagga, Australia
  2. School of Teacher Education, Charles Sturt University, Panorama Ave, 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

Early childhood workforce sustainability is an important issue, with implications for children, families and national productivity, as well as for educators themselves. Yet, in many national contexts, workforce challenges continue to undermine efforts to support sustainability. In this article, we evaluate efforts to address early childhood workforce challenges in the Australian context, where extensive early childhood reforms are underway. We argue that attempts to address workforce challenges in current policy initiatives are limited and may be insufficient for sustaining the early childhood workforce in the long term. Given the critical role that the early childhood workforce plays in Australia鈥檚 early childhood reform agenda, we then consider how workforce sustainability could be rethought and other possibilities generated for addressing entrenched workforce challenges. We conclude by arguing that greater attention to the everyday politics of educators鈥?practice, along with the forces shaping these milieux, may be a way of generating new possibilities for supporting workforce sustainability. Keywords Early childhood education Early childhood educators Early childhood teachers Post structural theory Australia