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Stuart, Margaret – Policy Futures in Education, 2019
Using Michel Foucault's theories of biopolitics, about risk and security, I examine the welfare policies of the National Coalition Government in New Zealand (2008-2017). This government attempted to mitigate risk by projecting possible challenges and solutions to 'vulnerable populations'. Welfare was re-defined in monetarist economic terms, as…
Descriptors: Welfare Services, Public Policy, Security (Psychology), Disadvantaged
Early Childhood Development Unit, Wellington (New Zealand). – 1992
The Early Childhood Development Unit, a government agency located in Aotearoa, New Zealand, promotes and encourages the development and provision of quality, accessible, and culturally appropriate early childhood services. The Unit operates in six activity or output areas. First, to increase access to early childhood education, in 1991-92 the unit…
Descriptors: Annual Reports, Budgets, Day Care, Delivery Systems
Meade, Anne; Dalli, Carmen – New Zealand Annual Review of Education, 1992
This review chapter summarizes developments in early childhood care and education in New Zealand in 1991, focusing on government actions affecting the field. Initial discussion covers the revised guidelines for obtaining charters, or accreditation, for child care centers and service providers. It is maintained that these guidelines fail to address…
Descriptors: Accreditation (Institutions), Budgets, Day Care Centers, Educational Policy