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Getting beyond childcare and quality
Peter Moss
Thomas Coram Research Unit
Institute of Education University of London
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Multifunctional servicesfor children 0 to 5
“The basic form of service [for children from birth to 5 and their families] should be through multi-purpose children’s centres offering part and full-time care with medical and other services to a very local catchment area” (Tizard, Moss and Perry, 1976)
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Legacy of the 19th century
19th century – crèches for poor working families; – early education/ kindergartens for middle
class families
Split system of early childhood services – ‘childcare’ & ‘education’– 0-3 & 3+
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Split system
• divided departmental responsibility
• divided structures: types of provision; workforce; funding; regulation etc. etc.
• different users and purposes
0-3 services: The ‘poor’ child & the ‘substitute’ mother
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Changing understandings today
Of early childhood services • complement the home not a substitute • ‘multi-purpose’ for all children and familiesOf children from birth• the ‘rich child’, born with a hundred
languages, active subject, citizen with rightsOf the workforce• Co-constructors of knowledge; reflective
practitioners; researchers
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The rich child
“Our image of the child is rich in potential, strong, powerful, competent and most of all connected to adults and other children”(Malaguzzi, 1993)
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Beyond childcare to…integrated services
• for the whole child
• for the whole community
• for many purposes (care needs of working parents and gender equality, learning, family support, production of culture and values, social cohesion and solidarity….)
• multipurpose services for all children
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Europe has concepts for integrated services
Concept of pedagogy
• theory+practice+profession
• care+education+’upbringing’ (erziehung)
“The pedagogue sets out to address the whole child, the child with body, mind, emotions, creativity, history and social identity. This is not the child only of emotions, the psychotherapeutical approach, nor only of the body, the medical approach, nor only of the mind, the traditional teaching approach”
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European has concepts for integrated services
Concept of education in its broadest senseConcept of ‘children’s spaces’ “The concept of ‘children’s spaces’ understands
[services] as environments of many possibilities – cultural and social, but also economic, political, ethical, aesthetic, physical – some predetermined, others not, some initiated by adults, others by children” (Moss & Petrie, 2002)
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Europe has examplesof integrated responsibility
In welfare:
• Denmark & Finland:
In education:
• Norway, England, Iceland, Scotland, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden…?Germany, Austria
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Europe has examples of integrated services
• Sweden : preschools
• England: children’s centres
• Many more
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Sweden An integrated early years service
• 1996: responsibility transferred from welfare to education
• All children entitled to a place from 12 months• 81% of 1-5s in services (2003)
– Under 1s = 0% (parental leave)– 1-2 = 45%– 2-3 = 87%– 3-5 = 86-97%
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Sweden An integrated early years service
Common framework for 1-5 year olds:
– Preschool curriculum
– Funding (2% of GDP)
– Workforce – specialist teacher for 1-5s
– Preschool (förskola) = centre for children under and over 3
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Sweden“Enrolling children from age 1 in full-day pre-schools
has become generally acceptable. What was once viewed as either a privilege of the wealthy for a few hours a day or an institution for needy children has become, after 70 years of political vision and policy making, an unquestionable right of children and families. Parents now expect a holistic pedagogy that includes health care, nurturing and education for their pre-schoolers” (Lenz Taguchi & Munkhammar (2003)
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Preschool & school‘Strong and equal partnership’
“Announcing the transfer to education, the prime minister stated that ECEC should be the first step towards realising a vision of lifelong learning. He added that the pre-school should influence at least the early years of compulsory school…
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… Initiatives taken since have sought to build closer links between pre-school, free-time services and school, treating all as equal parts of the education system.Development work is focusing on the integration of pre-school pedagogy into primary schools and creating pedagogical ‘meeting places’ between all three services” (Barbara Martin Korpi)
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Re-forming the 0-18 workforce
• Rektors – director of a cluster of services, including schools…pre-school teacher or school teacher or free-time pedagogue
• 3 professions (pre-school teacher, school teacher, free-time pedagogue) & 3 trainings1 profession and 1 training=3½ year training – 18 months shared; 24 months specialised
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EnglandDeveloping an integrated service
‘New children’s agenda’ • All services for children in education • All services share 5 outcomes:
– being healthy; – staying safe; – enjoying and achieving; – making a positive contribution; – economic well-being
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EnglandDeveloping a new children’s agenda
• 2010 – all schools ‘extended schools’ offering range of services (‘childcare’; study and leisure facilities; parenting support etc)
• 2010 - Children’s Centre for 0-5s in every community = 3500 by 2010
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EnglandDeveloping an integrated service
Children’s Centres provide range of services : • early education and childcare; • family support; • health services; • a base for family day carers; employment
advice; • support for other nearby services
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Beyond childcare to integrated services
Conditions for integrated services
• One department responsible
• One funding system
• One workforce based on one profession
• One regulatory framework
• One image of the child, care, learning
• One set of coherent objectives
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Quality Targets in Services for Young Children
Aim: to implement political objectives of 1992 EU Council Recommendation on Childcare
• Affordability• Access (urban/rural; special needs)• Care and a pedagogical approach• Close relations with parents and communities• Diversity, flexibility, choice• Coherence between services
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Conditions to achieveobjectives
• Common policy framework• Coordination of responsibility for services• Curricular framework• Appropriate staffing and staff conditions• Appropriate physical environments• Infrastructure – planning, monitoring, support,
training, research• Adequate financing
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Quality Targets
• Criteria for assessing progress in achieving objectives
• Targets achievable in all countries in 10 years• Provisional – not final targets• Method: discussion and negotiation by
European grouptargets vary in specificity• Inter-dependent – cannot choose some but not
others
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Quality targets – beyond childcare
“The Network takes the view that from a service perspective it is neither necessary or desirable to treat (children with employed parents) separately from other children. The development of services for young children should be based on a policy that takes account of all children and carers and all their needs”
EC Childcare Network (1996)
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“Quality Targets in Services for young Children”
40 targets in 9 blocks: • policy; finance; level and types of services;
education; ratios; staff employment and education; environment and health; parents and community; performance
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Some examplesTarget 1: coherent statement of intent for care
and education services to young children 0-6Target 2: one department take responsibility for
implementing 0-6 policyTarget 7: public expenditure on services for
young children (0-6) not less than 1% of GDP
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Target 16: all collective services for young children 0-6…should have coherent values and objectives including a stated and explicit educational philosophy
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Target 25: all qualified staff employed in services [should be paid the equivalent of] teachers
Target 26: at least 60% staff should have basic training of at least 3 years at post-18 level (paid at teacher level)
Target 29: 20% of staff should be men
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Quality Targets“Quality is a relative concept, based on values
and beliefsDefining quality is a process…[It] should be
participatory and democratic involving different groups…
The needs, perspectives and values of these groups may sometimes differ
Defining quality is a dynamic and continuous process…never reaching a final, ‘objective’ statement”
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Beyond quality
‘Beyond Quality in Early Childhood Education and Care – Postmodern Perspectives’
‘Oltre la qualità nell’educazione e cura della prima infanzia: I linguaggi dell valutazione’
Quality as one of the languages of evaluation… one possibility
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The language of quality
‘Quality’ is one way of thinking about evaluation and what we want - based on:
• universal norms defined and applied by experts (structure, process, outcome)
• values and assumptions: universality (beyond context), objectivity, indisputable knowledge, certainty, closure
• managerialism
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The language of quality
• Own tools and methods, e.g: – rating scales– external inspectors…
• Quality is a language of evaluation that– assesses conformity to norms– treats evaluation as a technical practice– values objectivity, certainty, closure– offers a statement of fact
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The language of meaning making
‘Meaning making’ is an other way of thinking about evaluation and what we want - based on:
• constructing meaning and judgement of value in relation with others and to critical questions
• values and assumptions: subjectivity, complexity and multiple perspectives, context, provisionality
• democratic participation
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Language of meaning making
• Own tools and methods, e.g. – pedagogical documentation
• ‘Meaning making’ is a language of evaluation that:– interprets practice and judges value– treats evaluation as political and ethical practice– values subjectivity, uncertainty, provisionality– offers a judgement of value
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Pedagogical documentation• the creation of diverse documents that make
practice visible (e.g. written notes, observation charts, diaries, and other narrative forms, recordings, photographs, slides, and video)
• visible practice discussed, reflected upon, interpreted, evaluated by children, parents, practitioners, politicians and others
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Beyond childcare and quality
• We have choices
• We can go beyond ‘childcare’ ‘children’s centres’
• We can go beyond ‘quality’ ‘meaning making’
• Opening to change is difficult: long-term commitment; different values; critical thinking and border crossing; tools and support