The Quality Agenda in Early Childhood Education: Questioning Local and Global Policy Perspectives

Chapter 1. Perspectives of quality in early childhood settings.- Chapter 2. 'For the little ones, the best': Australian early childhood service and policy histories.- Chapter 3. 'There is a quantum difference between the provision of age-appropriate play-based care and an early learning and care environment': The quality agenda for Australian early childhood.- Chapter 4. 'Early childhood education and care (ECEC) brings a wide range of benefits... but all these benefits are conditional on quality': Questioning the only quality reform agenda.- Chapter 5. 'Wiping noses and stopping children from killing each other': Contesting an only quality agenda.- Chapter 6. Quality futures? The case for re-democratising early childhood education and care