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A Care Manifesto for the Early Years : The Need for an Ethic of Care in Childcare Policy and Practice.
De Gruyter Bristol University Press/Policy Press Complete eBook-Package 2026 Available online
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Raven, Zoe.
- Language:
- English
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (153 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Bristol : Policy Press, 2026.
- Summary:
- Amid increasing policy and funding pressures, and a dangerously overstretched workforce, the early years sector in the UK is facing a profound crisis.A focus on education at the expense of care has contributed to the complexities of childcare practice being overlooked and undervalued.
- Contents:
- Front Cover
- A Care Manifesto for the Early Years: The Need for an Ethic of Care in Childcare Policy and Practice
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Table of Contents
- List of figures, tables and vignettes
- Acknowledgements
- Preface
- 1 Why a care manifesto is needed for the early years sector
- Introduction
- Where and how we lost the way (a quick history lesson)
- What's in a name?
- The problems of schoolification and commodification
- The research journey to solve an ethical problem
- Outline of the book
- 2 Do governments care? The problem of marketisation
- The triple policy agenda
- Why marketisation is problematic in the early years sector
- It's not (just) about the money
- The role of learning and development
- What the UK can learn from other countries
- 3 Can an organisation care?
- Caring for the carers
- The problem with profit as a key performance indicator
- Social enterprise and the ethics of care
- Ethical slippage and the unintended consequences of non-caring and acaring policies
- Leadership and culture
- 4 Care ethics in childcare practice
- From feminine to relational - the development of care ethics
- 'Mothers of both sexes': the gender issue
- Ethics of care and early years practice
- Ethical childcare: care as an organising principle
- The key person approach: relationality in pedagogy
- 'Not like a conveyor belt': care routines
- Early years theorists and their ideas
- 5 Caring as an embodied practice in early years provision
- The importance of touch
- Tacit knowledge and embodied care
- The politics of breastfeeding: the ultimate in embodied care
- Emotions in childcare practice
- The feel of time
- 6 Creating caring environments
- Sociomateriality
- Practitioner well-being
- Problematic protective clothing and equipment and outdoor clothing
- Play equipment
- The outdoors as the third pedagogue
- 7 Ethical sensemaking and how individuals can make a difference
- The process of sensemaking and sensegiving
- Sensegiving as values articulation
- Ethical sensemaking and decision-making
- The role of practitioner autonomy in tackling ethical slippage
- The impact of ethical sensemaking and sensegiving
- Embodied ethical sensemaking
- 8 Making childcare sustainable: a care manifesto
- The need for a (child)care manifesto
- Care ethics and the pillars of sustainability
- Financial sustainability in a two-tier sector
- Social sustainability and inclusion in the early years sector
- Environmental sustainability and the role of care in the climate crisis
- The (child)care manifesto for the early years
- References
- Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-4473-7738-9
- 9781447377382
- OCLC:
- 1564841580
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