Valuing Quality in Early Childhood Services New Approaches to Defining Quality

Not only does this book offer a great deal of insight into evaluating early childhood services, it also provides a focal point for those interested in establishing goals, objectives and evaluation criteria for their own early childhood programmes′ - Early Years `Quality′ has become a priority issue...

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Main Authors: Moss, Peter, Pence, Alan R.
Format: eBook Book
Language:English
Published: London SAGE Publications 1994
Teachers College Press
Paul Chapman
SAGE Publications, Limited
SAGE Publications Ltd
Edition:1
Series:Early Childhood Education Series
Subjects:
Child care services
Child care services > Evaluation
Day care centers
Early childhood education
Early Childhood Education Administration & Management
Elementary education
Evaluation
Social Work - Schools
ISBN:1446266257, 9781446266250, 1853962546, 0807734314, 9780807734315, 9781853962547
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Table of Contents:
  • Cover -- Contents -- Contributors -- Chapter 1 - Defining Quality: Values, Stakeholders and Processes -- Chapter 2 - Working in Conflict: Developing a Dynamic Model of Quality -- Chapter 3 - Looking at Quality from the Child's Perspective -- Chapter 4 - Defining and Valuing Quality as a Parent -- Chapter 5 - Measure for Measure: Values, Quality and Evaluation -- Chapter 6 - Quality in School-Age Child Care Services: an Inquiry about Values -- Chapter 7 - No Equality, no Quality -- Chapter 8 - Developing Cross-Cultural Partnerships: Implications for Child Care Quality Research and Practice -- Chapter 9 - The New Zealand Experience of Charter Development in Early Childhood Services -- Chapter 10 - Fragments for a Discussion about Quality -- Chapter 11 - Evaluation and Regulation: A Question of Empowerment -- Chapter 12 - Towards an Inclusionary Approach in Defining Quality -- Index
  • Defining Quality: Values, Stakeholders and Processes -- Working in Conflict: Developing a Dynamic Model of Quality -- Looking at Quality from the Child's Perspective -- Defining and Valuing Quality as a Parent -- Measure for Measure: Values, Quality and Evaluation -- Quality in School-Age Child Care Services: An Inquiry about Values -- No Equality, No Quality -- Developing Cross-Cultural Partnerships: Implications for Child Care Quality Research and Practice -- The New Zealand Experience of Charter Development in Early Childhood Services -- Fragments for a Discussion about Quality -- Evaluation and Regulation: A Question of Empowerment -- Towards an Inclusionary Approach in Defining Quality