Valuing Quality in Early Childhood Services

Alan Pence is the UNESCO Chair for Early Childhood Education, Care and Development at the University of Victoria and a Full Professor in the School of Child and Youth Care, University of Victoria, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. He is the former Director of the School and has established three specialized units: the Unit for Early Years Research and Development (www.web.uvic.ca/~eyrd/); the First Nations Partnership Programs (FNPP: www.fnpp.org) for Community-Based Aboriginal Child and Youth Care Education; and the Early Childhood Development Virtual University (ECDVU: www.ecdvu.org), focusing on ECD leadership promotion and capacity building in the Majority (Developing) World. Dr. Pence is the recipient of the Canadian Bureau for International Education's Award for Educational Leadership, the University of Victoria's inaugural Craigdarroch Research Award for Societal Contributions, and his ECDVU program was a finalist for the internationally prestigious WISE Awards for innovation in education.

Defining Quality - Peter Moss Values, Stakeholders and Processes Working in Conflict - Helen Penn Developing a Dynamic Model of Quality Looking at Quality from the Child's Perspective - Ole Langsted Defining and Valuing Quality as a Parent - Mary Larner and Deborah Phillips Measure for Measure - Julia Brophy and June Statham Values, Quality and Evaluation Quality in School-Age Child Care Services - Pat Petrie An Inquiry about Values No Equality, No Quality - Carol Joseph, Jane Lane and Sudesh Sharma Developing Cross-Cultural Partnerships - Alan Pence and Marie McCallum Implications for Child Care Quality Research and Practice The New Zealand Experience of Charter Development in Early Childhood Services - Anne Smith and Sarah-Eve Farquhar Fragments for a Discussion about Quality - Claus Jensen Evaluation and Regulation - Gunilla Dahlberg and Gunnar Asen A Question of Empowerment Towards an Inclusionary Approach in Defining Quality - Alan Pence and Peter Moss

`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