'The Centre is My Business': Neo-liberal politics, privatisation and discourses of professionalism in New Zealand

Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 49-60

  Duhn, Iris ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EID: 77953746713     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14639491     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2304/ciec.2010.11.1.49     Document Type: Article

References (58)

1. AotearoaKids (2008) Our Philosophy. Centre policy document. Auckland: AotearoaKids Childcare Centre.
2. Braidotti, R. (2006) Transpositions. Cambridge: Polity Press.
3. Burns, D. (2006) The Kids Business, Unlimited: Inspiring Business, May. http://unlimited.co.nz/
4. Cannella, G.S. & Viruru, R. (2004) Childhood and Postcolonialisation: power, education, and contemporary practice. New York: RoutledgeFalmer.
5. Carpenter, V., Jesson, J., Roberts, P. & Stephenson, M. (Eds) (2008) Ngā Kaupapa Here: connections and contradictions in education. Melbourne: Cengage Learning.
6. Carr, M. & May, H. (2000) Te Whāriki: curriculum voices, in H. Penn (Ed.), Early Childhood Services: theory, policy and practice, 53-73. Buckingham: Open University Press.
7. Codd, J. (2008) Neoliberalism, Globalisation and the Deprofessionalisation of Teachers, in V. Carpenter, J. Jesson, P. Roberts & M. Stephenson (Eds) Ngā Kaupapa Here: connections and contradictions in education, 14-24. Melbourne: Cengage Learning.
8. Cruikshank, B. (1999) The Will to Empower: democratic citizens and other subjects. Ithaca: Cornell University Press.
9. Dahlberg, G., Moss, P. & Pence, A. (1999) Beyond Quality in Early Childhood Education and Care: postmodern perspectives. London: Falmer Press.
10. Dale, R. (2008) Globalisation and Education in Aotearoa/New Zealand, in V. Carpenter, J. Jesson, P. Roberts & M. Stephenson (Eds) Ngā Kaupapa Here: connections and contradictions in education, 25-35. Melbourne: Cengage Learning.
11. Dalli, C. (2008a) Notes on UNICEF Innocenti Research Centre Report Card 8, The Child Care Transition. A League Table of Early Childhood Education and Care in Economically Advantaged Countries. http://www.unicef.org.nz/store/doc/MicrosoftWord-ExpertFeedback.pdf
12. Dalli, C. (2008b) Pedagogy, Knowledge and Collaboration: towards a ground-up perspective on professionalism, European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, 16(2), 171-185. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13502930802141600
13. Davis, J. (2009) Revealing the Research 'Hole' of Early Childhood Education for Sustainability: a preliminary survey of the literature, Environmental Education Research, 15(2), 227-241. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13504620802710607
14. Dewey, J. (1910) How We Think. Boston: Heath.
15. Duhn, I. (2006a) Cartographies of Childhood: mapping the modern/global child. Unpublished PhD thesis, University of Auckland.
16. Duhn, I. (2006b) The Making of Global Citizens: traces of cosmopolitanism in the New Zealand early childhood curriculum, Te Whāriki, Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood, 7(3), 191-202. http://dx.doi.org/10.2304/ciec.2006.7.3.191
17. Duncan, J. (2008) Notes on UNICEF Innocenti Research Centre Report Card 8, The Child Care Transition. A League Table of Early Childhood Education and Care in Economically Advantaged Countries. http://www.unicef.org.nz/store/doc/MicrosoftWord-ExpertFeedback.pdf
18. Education Review Office (2009) Early Childhood Monographs: the quality of education and care in infant and toddler centres. Wellington: Education Review Office.
19. Edwards, R. & Usher, R. (2008) Globalisation and Pedagogy: space, place and identity, 2nd edn. London: Routledge.
20. Ellsworth, A. (2005) Places of Learning: media, architecture, pedagogy. New York: RoutledgeFalmer.
21. Farquhar, S. (2008) Early Childhood Care and Education: from advocacy to institution, in V. Carpenter, J. Jesson, P. Roberts & M. Stephenson (Eds) Ngā Kaupapa Here: connections and contradictions in education, 46-56. Melbourne: Cengage Learning.
22. Fisher, D. (2009) Kidicorp Funding Probe, New Zealand Herald, 29 November. http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10612318&pnum=1
23. Foucault, M. (1994) The Political Technology of Individuals, in J. Faubion (Ed.), Michel Foucault: power. Essential Works of Foucault, 1954-1984, 403-417. London: Penguin.
24. Gruenewald, D. & Smith, G. (Eds) (2008) Place-Based Education in the Global Age: local diversity. New York: Taylor & Francis.
25. Hallett, C. & Prout, A. (Eds) (2003) Hearing the Voices of Children: social policy for a new century. New York: Routledge.
26. Hauser, M.E., Jipson, J., Kim, M., et al (1998) Gertrude's Secret: how we (historically) educate our children, in M.E. Hauser & J. Jipson (Eds) Intersections: feminisms/early childhoods, 67-110. New York: Peter Lang.
27. Kanu, Y. & Glor, M. (2006) 'Currere' to the Rescue? Teachers as 'Amateur Intellectuals' in a Knowledge Society, Journal of the Canadian Association for Curriculum Studies, 4(2), 101-123.
28. LaRocque, N. & Thorne, S.M. (2008) Early Childhood Education in New Zealand and Australia: lessons for policy design. Paper presented at the World Bank Seminar, Washington, DC, 28 May. http://www.educationforum.org.nz/documents/presentations/ECE_Presentation_May_2008.ppt
29. Lingard, B. (2007) Deparochializing the Study of Education, in K. Gulson & C. Symes (Eds) Spatial Theories of Education: policy and geography matters, 233-250. New York: Routledge.
30. Lingard, B. & Ozga, J. (Eds) (2007) The RoutledgeFalmer Reader in Education Policy and Politics. London: Routledge.
31. Massey, D. (1993) Power-Geometry and a Progressive Sense of Place, in J. Bird, B. Curtis, T. Putnam, G. Robertson & L. Tickner (Eds) Mapping the Futures: local cultures, global change, 59-69. London: Routledge.
32. May, H. (1997) The Discovery of Early Childhood. Wellington: Auckland University Press with Bridget Williams Books.
33. May, H. (2001) Mapping Some Landscapes of Colonial Global Childhood, European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, 9(2), 5-20. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13502930185208731
34. May, H. & Mitchell, L. (2009) Strengthening Community-Based Early Childhood Education in Aotearoa New Zealand. Report of the Quality Public Early Childhood Education Project. Wellington: New Zealand Educational Institute-Te Riu Roa.
35. Miller, L. (2008) Developing Professionalism within a Regulatory Framework in England: challenges and possibilities, European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, 16(2), 255-268. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13502930802141667
36. Ministry of Education (2002) Pathways to the Future - Ngā Huarahi Arataki. Wellington: Learning Media.
37. Mitchell, L. (2008) Early Childhood Education Services in 2007: key findings from the NZCER national survey. Wellington: New Zealand Council for Educational Research.
38. Moss, P. (2007) Bringing Politics into the Nursery: early childhood education as a democratic practice, European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, 15(1), 5-20.
39. Moss, P. (2008) Beyond Childcare, Markets and Technical Practice: repoliticising early childhood, in Proceedings of the Early Childhood Care and Education Seminar Series 2, 5-14. Dublin: Centre for Social and Educational Research.
40. New Zealand Educational Institute-Te Riu Roa (2007) Quality Public ECE: a vision for 2020. Auckland: New Zealand Educational Institute-Te Riu Roa.
41. New Zealand Teachers' Council (2004) Code of Ethics for Registered Teachers. http://www.teacherscouncil.govt.nz/ethics/code.stm
42. Nuttall, J.G. (2003) Introduction: weaving Te Whāriki, in J.G. Nuttall (Ed.), Weaving Te Whāriki: Aotearoa/New Zealand's early childhood curriculum document in theory and practice, 7-15. Wellington: New Zealand Council for Educational Research.
43. Osgood, J. (2006) Deconstructing Professionalism in Early Childhood Education: resisting the regulatory gaze, Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood, 7(1), 5-14. http://dx.doi.org/10.2304/ciec.2006.7.1.5
44. Osgood, J. (2009) Childcare Workforce Reform in England and 'The Early Years Professional': a critical discourse analysis, Journal of Education Policy, 24(6), 733-751. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02680930903244557
45. Quality Public Education Coalition (QPEC) (2005) Factfiles: private and public education. Early Childhood Education. Auckland: QPEC.
46. Rose, N. (1999) Powers of Freedom: reframing political thought. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
47. Small, R. (2008) Teaching, Professionalism and Ethics, in V. Carpenter, J. Jesson, P. Roberts & M. Stephenson (Eds) Ngā Kaupapa Here: connections and contradictions in education, 57-65. Melbourne: Cengage Learning.
48. Smith, A.B., Grima, G., Gaffney, M., Powell, K., Masse, L. & Barnett, S. (2000) Strategic Research Initiative Literature Review: early childhood education, a report to the Ministry of Education. Dunedin: Children's Issues Centre, University of Otago.
49. Sumsion, J. (2006) From Whitlam to Economic Rationalism and Beyond: a conceptual framework for political activism in children's services, Australian Journal of Early Childhood, 31(1), 1-9.
50. Sylva, K. (2004) Making a Difference in the Lives of Young Children: evidence from project EPPE. Paper presented at European Early Childhood Education Research Association conference, Malta, 1-4 September.
51. Torres, C. (2009) Education and Neoliberal Globalization. New York: Routledge.
52. UNICEF (2008) The Child Care Transition. Innocenti Report Card 8. Florence: UNICEF Innocenti Research Centre.
53. Urban, M. (2008) Dealing with Uncertainty: challenges and possibilities for the early childhood profession, European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, 16(2), 135-152. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13502930802141584
54. Woodrow, C. (2007) W(H)Ither the Early Childhood Teacher: tensions for early childhood professional identity between the policy landscape and the politics of teacher regulation, Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood, 8(3), 233-243. http://dx.doi.org/10.2304/ciec.2007.8.3.233
55. Woodrow, C. (2008) Discourses of Professional Identity in Early Childhood: movements in Australia, European Early Childhood Research Journal, 16(2), 269-280. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13502930802141675
56. Woodrow, C. & Busch, G. (2008) Repositioning Early Childhood Leadership as Action and Activism, European Early Childhood Research Journal, 16(1), 83-93. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13502930801897053
57. Woodrow, C. & Press, F. (2007) (Re)positioning the Child in the Policy/Politics of Early Childhood, Educational Philosophy and Theory, 39(3), 312-325. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1469-5812.2007.00328.x
58. Wylie, C., Thompson, J., Hodgen, E., Ferral, H., Lythe, C. & Fijn, T. (2004) Competent Children at 12. Wellington: Ministry of Education.