The Internationalization of Early Childhood Education and Care Issues: Framing Gender Justice and Child Well-Being

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: White, Linda A.
• 署名单位: University of Toronto
• 刊物名称: GOVERNANCE-AN INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF POLICY ADMINISTRATION AND INSTITUTIONS
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0952-1895
• DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-0491.2011.01520.x
• 发表日期: 2011
• 关键词: world-bank; POLICY; ORGANIZATIONS; Preschool; ideas

摘要

This article investigates the extent to which early childhood education and care (ECEC) issues have been internationalized to become the focus of attention of a number of international organizations (IOs). Through an examination of policy statements and other primary documents, the article explores how these IOs frame the ECEC policy debate. While a great deal of those IOs' recommendations are increasingly cast in human capital development terms, multiple and competing frames are in evidence: one that rests on more social pedagogic norms that promote a concern for the well-being of the whole child; another that focuses on children's rights to services and countries' obligations to deliver services; and another that focuses on parental employment concerns and the connection between ECEC policies and programs and women's employment. The article examines each of the frames in evidence and evaluates their ability to address concerns of both gender justice and child well-being.