Alberta's daycare controversy: from 1908 to 2009-- and beyond
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1. Verfasser: Langford, Tom (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Edmonton AU Press 2011
Schriftenreihe:West unbound, social and cultural studies (Online)
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Cover; Contents; Tables; Abbreviations; Timeline; Acknowledgements; 1 Introduction: Research Strategy, Themes, and Scope; 2 Early Efforts to Organize Day Nurseries, 1908-45; 3 The 1960s: Citizen Action, Civil Servants, and Municipal Initiatives Lead the Way; 4 The 1970s: Governments Fund High-Quality Day Cares as Preventive Social Services; 5 Years of Turmoil, 1979-82: A New System for Day Care Is Born; 6 From Corporatized Chains to "Mom and Pop" Centres: Diversity in Commercial Day Care; 7 Day Care in Question, 1984-99; 8 Municipalities and Lighthouse Child Care, 1980-99
Day care in Alberta has had a remarkably durable history as a controversial issue. Since the late 1950s, disputes over day care programs, policies, and funding have been a recurring feature of political life in the province. Alberta's Day Care Controversy traces the development of day care policies and programs in Alberta, with particular emphasis on policy decisions and program initiatives that have provoked considerable debate and struggle among citizens. For most of Alberta's first fifty years as a province, day care was treated as a private rather than a public issue. Beginning in the late
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