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Governing 'Disadvantage' through Funded Early Years Places and Reconfigured Spaces
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Lee, Siew Fung – Journal of Early Childhood Research, 2021
This article examines how the policy of funded early years places for 'disadvantaged' 2-year-olds (FNP) in England reconfigures spaces within early childhood and care (ECEC) in new ways of working with young children. Using practitioners' interview data from early years settings in London, this article uses Foucauldian technologies of…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Early Childhood Education, Governance, Disadvantaged
Governing 'Disadvantage' through Readiness: A Foucauldian Policy Genealogy of Funded Nursery Places for Two-Year-Olds
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Lee, Siew Fung – Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood, 2021
This article critically examines how the policy of funded nursery places for 'disadvantaged' two-year-olds in England opens up economic and political spaces in readiness for increased governance. The government introduced funded nursery places in September 2013, which aimed to promote disadvantaged children's educational outcomes, narrow the…
Descriptors: Educational Philosophy, Outcomes of Education, Child Care Centers, Toddlers
Common Facilitators and Barriers to Early Head Start-Child Care Partnership Implementation
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Bamdad, Tiffany; Lloyd, Chrishana M. – Child Trends, 2020
In 2014, the Administration for Children and Families (ACF) granted funds to establish Early Head Start-Child Care Partnerships (EHS-CCPs) to expand access to high-quality child care. Through these partnerships, EHS grantees partnered with center-based and family child care providers to implement EHS Program Performance Standards and provide…
Descriptors: Early Intervention, Child Care, Early Childhood Education, Infants
Resources for Developing Early Head Start-Child Care Partnership Agreements
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Redd, Zakia; Zaslow, Martha J.; Motley, Yolanda; Cook, Maya – Child Trends, 2020
The Early Head Start-Child Care Partnerships (EHS-CCP) were developed to expand access to quality early childhood care and education programs for infant, toddlers, and their families. The EHS-CCP model includes partnering with child care centers and family child care homes to offer Early Head Start (EHS) "slots" for infants and toddlers…
Descriptors: Early Intervention, Child Care, Early Childhood Education, Infants
Emotional Security and Daycare for Babies and Toddlers in Social-Political Contexts: Reflections of Early Years Pioneers since the 1970s
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Singer, Elly; Wong, Sandie – Early Child Development and Care, 2021
We discuss oral history interviews with academics who laid the foundation of research and pedagogies in daycare for under three-year-olds in Europe and North and South America since the 1970s. Their work is clearly embedded in the social-political context of their country: the left-wing programmes for disadvantaged families in the U.S.A.;…
Descriptors: Oral History, College Faculty, Teacher Attitudes, Neoliberalism
Improving Early Childhood Education Systems. Policy Brief
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Poppe, Julie; Thorman, Abby; Weyer, Matt – Education Commission of the States, 2020
Created as part of the Every Student Succeeds Act, the Preschool Development Grant Birth Through Five (PDG B-5) program is a competitive, federal grant designed to strengthen states' early childhood systems and improve transitions between programs and services -- such as home visits, early intervention settings, child care and pre-K education --…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Educational Improvement, Home Visits, School Readiness