The SAGE Handbook of Early Childhood Policy

Claire Cameron is Reader in Education at the Thomas Coram Research Unit, Institute of Education, University of London, UK. She has carried out research on children and young people, children's services and the children's workforce for over 20 years, with a particular interest in young people in institutional and marginalised circumstances and in care and education, and the interface between the two. She has a long-standing interest in European comparative research and was coordinator of the Young People from a Public Care Background: Pathways to Education in Europe (YiPPEE) study, funded by the European Commission's Framework Programme 7. Her interests also span the European professional of social pedagogy and what this may have to offer to professional practice with children and young people in the United Kingdom.

Introduction: Exploring the landscape of early childhood policy - Linda Miller, Claire Cameron, Carmen Dalli and Nancy Barbour PART 1: THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN RESEARCH, POLICY AND PRACTICE: COUNTRY CASE STUDIES Chapter 1: Scientific advice, policy formation and early childhood education and care (ECEC) in the European Union (EU): the intersection of research, policy and practice - Nora Milotay Chapter 2: Early Childhood Policies in India: A Historical Analysis - Venita Kaul and Shipra Sharma Chapter 3: An incomplete revolution? Changes and challenges within German early childhood education and care policy - Birgit Riedel and Nicole Klinkhammer Chapter 4: A Danish perspective on issues in early childhood education and care policy - Jytte Juul Jensen Chapter 5: The relationship between early childhood and primary education in France and Sweden: a policy focus - Yoshie Kaga Chapter 6: Early childhood policy in East Asia and the Asia Pacific region, with reference to Myanmar - Lynn Ang Chapter 7: Implementing Free Early Childhood Education in a Completely Privatized Market: A Case Study of Hong Kong - Hui Li and Jingying Wang Chapter 8: US Early Childhood Policy: Towards a More Coherent Early Childhood Policy in the US - Jacqueline Jones Chapter 9: Documenting early childhood policy in Aotearoa New Zealand: Political and personal stories - Helen May Chapter 10: Chinese Early Childhood Policy - Jennifer Chen Chapter 11: Highlights and shadows in ECEC policy in Latin America and the Caribbean - Cynthia Adlerstein & Marcela Pardo PART 2: EQUITABLE EARLY CHILDHOOD SERVICES: INTERVENTION TO IMPROVE CHILDREN'S LIFE CHANCES Chapter 12: Equitable early childhood services: intervention to improve children's life chances, South Africa - Teresa T. Harris & Nkidi C. Phatudi Chapter 13: Scaling-up early learning as a sustainable development priority: A case study of Ethiopia - Martin Woodhead, Jack Rossiter, Andrew Dawes and Alula Pankhurst Chapter 14: Doing More with Less: Innovations in Early Childhood Development from Low-Resource Contexts - Michelle J. Neuman Chapter 15: What place for 'care' in early childhood policy? - Peter Moss Chapter 16: Early childhood education and care: poverty and access. Perspectives from England - Eva Lloyd Chapter 17: School Readiness - Christopher P. Brown Chapter 18: Educare: A Model for US Early Childhood Services - Diane Horm, Noreen Yazejian, Portia Kennel, and Cynthia D. Stringfellow Jackson PART 3: EXTENDING PRACTICE: THE ROLE OF EARLY CHILDHOOD SERVICES IN FAMILY SUPPORT Chapter 19: A Childcare Social Enterprise The London Early Years Foundation Model - June O'Sullivan Chapter 20: Supporting young HIV-AIDS survivors in family households in rural South Africa, the Isibindi Model - Merle Allsopp, Hloniphile Dlamini, Lucky Jacobs, Seeng Mamabolo & Leon Fulcher Chapter 21: Children in care in early childhood - Sonia Jackson and Katie Hollingworth Chapter 22: Community based family support: lessons from Sure Start - Naomi Eisenstadt Chapter 23: The Role of the Health Sector in Promoting Well-being in Early Childhood - Mary Young PART 4: PARTICIPATION, RIGHTS AND DIVERSITY Chapter 24: Supporting (super)diversity in early childhood settings - Michel Vandenbroeck Chapter 25: Challenges of Practicing Democracy in Polish Preschools - Katarzyna Gawlicz Chapter 26: Te Kohanga Reo: early childhood education and the politics of language and cultural maintenance - Mere Skerrett Chapter 27: Children's Rights and Early Childhood Education - Anne B. Smith Chapter 28: The Lives of Refugee Children: A Korean Example - Emily Seulgi Lee and Shin Ji Kang SECTION 5: FUTURE DIRECTIONS FOR EARLY CHILDHOOD POLICY Chapter 29: Costs and Benefits of Early Childhood Education and Care - Steve Barnett and Milagros Nores Chapter 30: Quality of early childhood education and care for children under three: Sound Foundations - Sandra Mathers and Katharina Ereky-Stevens Chapter 31: The competent system or the intersection between research, policy making and practice - Jan Peeters and Brecht Peleman Chapter 32: The privatization/marketization of ECEC debate: social versus neo liberal models - Christine Woodrow and Frances Press Chapter 33: ISSA's Quality Framework for Early Childhood Practices in Services for Children under Three Years Old - An invitation to policy dialogue for building integration and alignment in ECEC systems - Dawn Tankersley, Mihaela Ionescu and Zorica Trikic Chapter 34: Role of research in ECD policy - Sharon Lynn Kagan, Rebecca E. Gomez, Jessica L. Roth Chapter 35: The development of a united ECEC workforce in New Zealand and England: a long, slow and fitful journey - Claire Cameron, Carmen Dalli and Antonia Simon Chapter 36: Conclusion - Carmen Dalli, Nancy Barbour, Claire Cameron and Linda Miller