CHILDCARE RESOURCE AND RESEARCH UNIT
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Publications list
All CRRU publications are available for free download: follow the title link from the list below. PDF attachments appear at the bottom of each publication page. Print copies of some publications are available for purchase, see our order page.
ECEC in Canada
- The state of early childhood education and care in Canada 2010: Trends and analysis (, 5 February 2013)
- Early childhood education and care in Canada 2008 (8th edition, June 2009)
- Early childhood education and care in Canada 2006 (7th edition, June 2007)
- Early childhood education and care in Canada 2004 (6th edition, May 2005)
- Early childhood education and care in Canada 2001 (5th edition, February 10, 2003)
- Early childhood care and education in Canada: Provinces and territories 1998 (4th edition, July 2000)
BRIEFing NOTES
- What research says about quality in for-profit, non-profit and public child care (, November 2011)
- Research evidence on selected aspects of for-profit/non-profit child care programs: A bibliography. (, November 2011)
- Ratios for four and five year olds: What does the research say? What else is important? (, June 2009)
- From vision to action: Early childhood education and care in 2020 (, November 2008)
- Why Canada can’t work without good child care: How early childhood education and care supports the economy (, September 2008)
- Early learning and child care: How does Canada measure up? (, October 2006)
- Canada-wide spending on early childhood education and care 2005/2006 (, September 2006)
- The state of the national child care program and provincial/territorial contexts, March 2006 (, March 2006)
- It was twenty years ago today... March 8, 1986 (FR & EN, March 2006)
- Quality targets in services for young children: Summary (, November 2004)
- OECD Thematic Review of Canadian Early Childhood Education and Care: Highlights from the recommendations (, October 2004)
- Is child care a good public investment? (, August 2004)
- Is child care a good public investment? (, 2003, EN & FR)
- Fact and fantasy: Eight myths about early childhood education and care - Summary (, July 2003, EN & FR)
- Early childhood education and care in Canada 2001: Summary (, August 2002, EN & FR)
- Ontario’s spending for regulated child care, 1942-2001 (, 2002)
- Child care by default or design? An exploration of differences between non-profit and for-profit Canadian child care centres using the You Bet I Care! data sets (, 2002, EN & FR)
- Building a firm foundation for lifelong learning: The importance of early childhood education and care (, 2002)
- Is this as good as it gets? Child care as a test case for assessing the Social Union Framework Agreement (, 2002)
- Executive summary: Starting Strong—Early education and care. Report on an OECD Thematic Review (, 2001)
- Targeting early childhood care and education: Myths and realities - Executive summary (, 2001)
- Early childhood development services: How much will they cost? (, 2000)
- More than the sum of the parts: An early childhood development system for Canada (, 2000)
- Fact sheets and summaries (, 1997)
Occasional paper series
- Childcare markets: Do they work? (, February 15, 2012)
- A matter of choice: A critical discourse analysis of ECEC policy in Canada's 2006 federal election (, December 14, 2011)
- Innovations in provincial early learning curriculum frameworks (Occasional paper 24, April 2010)
- Can early childhood education and care help keep Canada’s promise of respect for diversity? (Occasional paper 23, January 2010)
- Canadian early learning and child care and the Convention on the Rights of the Child (Occasional paper 22, June 2006)
- For-profit child care: Past, present and future (Occasional paper 21 [EN & FR], October 2005)
- The OECD and the reconciliation agenda: Competing blueprints (Occasional paper 20, July 2005)
- ‘Choice’ discourse in BC child care: Distancing policy from research (Occasional paper 19, September 2004)
- Child care by default or design? An exploration of differences between non-profit and for-profit Canadian child care centres using the You Bet I Care! data sets (Occasional paper 18, August 2002)
- Reforming Québec's early childhood care and education: The first five years (Occasional paper 17 [EN & FR], April 2002)
- An integrated approach to early childhood education and care: A preliminary study (Occasional paper 16, January 2002)
- Targeting early childhood care and education: Myths and realities (Occasional paper 15, August 2001)
- Women, citizenship and Canadian child care policy in the 1990s (Occasional paper 13, March 2001)
- More than the sum of the parts: An early childhood development system for Canada (Occasional paper 12, October 2000)
- Child care and Canadian federalism in the 1990s: Canary in a coal mine (Occasional paper 11, August 2000)
- How should we care for babies and toddlers? An analysis of practice in out-of-home care for children under three (Occasional paper 10, June 1999)
- Neo-conservatism and child care services in Alberta: A case study (Occasional paper 9, 1997)
- Theorizing political difference in Toronto’s postwar child care movement (Occasional paper 8, 1996)
- The great child care debate: The long-term effects of non-parental child care (Occasional paper 7, 1996)
- A sociological examination of the child care auspice debate (Occasional paper 6, 1995)
- Child care: Canada can’t work without it (Occasional paper 5, 1995)
- Rural child care in Ontario (Occasional paper 4, 1994)
- Work-related child care in context: A study of work-related child care in Canada (Occasional paper 3, 1993)
- Proceedings from the Child Care Policy and Research Symposium (Occasional paper 2, 1993)
- Child care for Canadian children and families (Occasional paper 1, 1991)
Other publications
- 30 quick facts about Canadian ECEC: Trends & analysis 2008 (, September 2009)
- Child care space statistics 2007 (, March 2008)
- Broadening and deepening our understanding of quality: Working toward inclusion and equity (, February 2008)
- Trends & Analysis 2007: Early childhood education and care in Canada 2006 (, December 2007)
- Trends & Analysis: Early childhood education and care in Canada 2004 (, May 2005, EN & FR)
- Quality in early learning and child care services: Papers from the European Commission Childcare Network (, October 2004)
- Fact and fantasy: Eight myths about early childhood education and care (, July 2003)
- The state of data on early childhood education and care in Canada: National Data Project final report (, July 2003)
- Making the best use of the You Bet I Care! data sets (, April 2002)
- The benefits and costs of good child care: The economic rationale for public investment in young children (, 1998, EN & FR)
- Advancing early childhood care and education in Canada and the U.S, the U.K. and Australia: An international symposium (, April 1998)
- Assessing community need for child care: Resource material for conducting community needs assessments (, April 1994)
- Flexible child care in Canada: A report on child care for evenings, overnight and weekends, emergencies and ill children, and in rural areas (, April 1994)
Quality by design
- Quality by design: What do we know about quality in early learning and child care, and what do we think? A literature review. (, 2006)
- Elements of a high quality early learning and child care system. (EN & FR, 2005)
- Child care fee subsidies in Canada (, 2005)
- Child care centre physical environments (, 2005)
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