Reinventing early care and education
Subtitle: a vision for a quality system
By: Sharon L. Kagan, Nancy E. Cohen, Editors.
Contributors: Kagan, Sharon Lynn.; Cohen, Nancy E.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Jossey-Bass
Published: 1996
Place of publication: San Francisco
Language: eng
Number of pages: 365
Subjects: Education, Preschool -- United States.; Child care -- United States.
Other titles: Reinventing early care & education
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Table of contents: value: Introduction : the changing context of American early care and education / Sharon L. Kagan, Nancy E. Cohen, Michelle J. Neuman; value: Parents' perspectives on quality in early care and education / Mary Larner; value: Reframing the quality issue / Deborah Phillips; value: International approaches to defining quality / Jennifer Bush, Deborah Phillips; value: Multicultural perspectives on quality / Nancy E. Cohen, Delia Pompa; value: Licensing : lessons from other occupations / Anne Mitchell; value: Training and professional development : international approaches / Eliza Pritchard; value: Regulation : alternative approaches from other fields / Katherine L. Scurria; value: Governance : child care, federalism, and public policy / William T. Gormley; value: Funding and financing : moving toward a more universal system / Martin H. Gerry; value: Quality infrastructure for family child care / Shelby H. Miller; value: Media and mass communications strategies / Kathy Bonk, Meredith Wiley; value: Citizen participation : transforming access into influence / Christopher Howard; value: Organizing communities and constituents for change / Ernesto Cortes, Jr.; value: Understanding the complexities of educational change / Ann Lieberman, Diane Wood, Beverly Falk; value: The synchrony of stakeholders : lessons from the Disabilities Rights Movement / H. Rutherford Turnbull, Ann P. Turnbull; value: A vision for a quality early care and education system / Sharon L. Kagan, Nancy E. Cohen; value: Getting from here to there : the process and the players / Nancy E. Cohen, Sharon L. Kagan.