The system has several elements and many problems. Making it fit for purpose will take a lot of work and even more resources than those that have just been announced.
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Ontario’s flat fee for child care should be replaced by an income-tested fee reflecting family incomes.
This week’s announcements will add to the need to train more early childhood workers and to ensure they are more diverse in a way that better reflects our multicultural society.
Dads and caregivers play important roles in supporting the development of loving relationships.
A study of students across Canada between 2004 and 2015 provides an estimate of anxiety symptoms in kindergarteners, and can serve as a baseline for comparing children’s anxiety after COVID-19.
Kindergarten educators who taught from home during COVID-19 and who were primarily responsible for their own children self-reported poorer mental health than those without these responsibilities.
Researchers and educators with the Climate Action Childhood network are generating responses to climate change alongside young children.
Staff recruitment and retention challenges aren’t seen in public child-care centres, where educators are paid substantially more, are unionized and have professional development opportunities.
Among provinces, Ontario is the least generous supporter of its childhood educator workforce. Parents pay the price in available child-care spaces if a staffing recruitment crisis does not improve.
The new learning and child care agreement requires a paradigm shift as we begin to consider early learning and child care as a public service.
A chasm has opened up between early childhood learning and the first years of compulsory schooling. Kids go from playing to being tested in the blink of an eye, and their learning is poorer for it.
Early exposure to everyday math at home predicts children’s school mathematics outcomes.
The pandemic highlighted Australia’s reliance on early childhood educators, while adding to their existing stresses. A study of how educators fared identifies three key factors in their well-being.
50% of Wiggles merchandise sales are attributed to Emma alone. Here’s what she meant to audiences – and what happens next.
A renewed model for oversight and support of all home child-care providers would ensure that our society’s youngest and most vulnerable people have access to safe and higher-quality home child care.
They’re among the lowest-paid in the country but are working many hours unpaid to meet the demands of accreditation. With 73% wanting to leave the profession in the next three years, change is needed.
Encouraging a child to hold their paint brush to develop a pincer grip while the child is involved in painting is one example of guided play.
Communicating clearly with children and providing space for them to play will be vital during back-to-school and beyond as children manage stressors associated with COVID-19.
We enter this election with eight signed child-care agreements and question marks over the fate of those deals if the Liberal’s gamble on a majority government fails.
Planning outdoor early learning and child care has implications for training and recruiting educators as well as for planning, developing and funding physical spaces.
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Associate Professor, Flinders University
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Program Head of Early Childhood Studies, University of Guelph-Humber
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Professor and Head of School, School of Early Childhood and Inclusive Education, Queensland University of Technology
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Fellow in Early Childhood Policy, Atkinson Centre, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto
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Professor of Applied Psychology and Human Development, University of Toronto
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Assistant Program Head of Early Childhood Studies, University of Guelph-Humber
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Professorial Fellow, Jumbunna IHL, University of Technology Sydney
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Professor, Queensland Brain Institute, The University of Queensland
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Policy Fellow, Mitchell Institute, Victoria University
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Assistant researcher, Perlman Lab, Ontario Institute for the Studies of Education, University of Toronto
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Former Education Policy Fellow, Mitchell Institute, Victoria University
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RBC Chair and Professor, Department of Political Science and Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy, University of Toronto
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Adjunct Professor, Department of Applied Psychology and Human Development at Ontario Institute for the Study of Education (OISE) and Senior Policy Fellow at the Atkinson Centre, University of Toronto
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Professor of Work and Organisation, Queensland University of Technology
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Policy Fellow, Mitchell Institute, Victoria University
