Publications list

CRRU publications are available for download: follow the title link from the list below. An asterisk (*) denotes publications available in French.

ECEC in Canada

• Early childhood education and care in Canada 2006 (7th edition, 2005)
• Early childhood education and care in Canada 2004 (6th edition, 2005)
• Early childhood education and care in Canada 2001 (5th edition, 2002)
• Early childhood care and education in Canada: Provinces and territories 1998 (4th edition, 2000)

Quality by design working documents

• Quality by design: What do we know about quality in early learning and child care, and what do we think? A literature review (2006)
• Child care centre physical environments (2005)
• Quality targets in services for young children (2005)
• Child care fee subsidies in Canada (2005)
• Elements of a high quality early learning and child care system (2005)
• Services éducatifs et de garde à l’enfance de bonne qualité: un système de bonne qualité (2005)

Occasional paper series

• Canadian early learning and child care and the Convention on the Rights of the Child (No. 22, 2006)
• For-profit child care: Past, present and future (No. 21, 2005)*
• The OECD and the reconciliation agenda: Competing blueprints (No. 20, 2005)
• ‘Choice’ discourse in BC child care: Distancing policy from research (No.19, 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 (No.18, 2002)
• Reforming Québec’s early childhood care and education: The first five years (No. 17, 2002) *
• An integrated approach to early childhood education and care: A preliminary study (No. 16, 2001)
• Targeting early childhood care and education: Myths and realities (No. 15, 2001)
• Women, citizenship and Canadian child care policy in the 1990s (No. 13, 2001)
• More than the sum of the parts: An early childhood development system for Canada (No. 12, 2000)
• Child care and Canadian federalism in the 1990s: Canary in a coal mine (No. 11, 2000)
• How should we care for babies and toddlers? An analysis of practice in out-of-home care for children under three (No. 10, 1999).
• Neo-conservatism and child care services in Alberta: A case study (No. 9, 1997)
• Theorizing political difference in Toronto’s postwar child care movement (No. 8, 1996)
• The great child care debate: The long-term effects of non-parental child care (No. 7, 1996)
• A sociological examination of the child care auspice debate (No. 6, 1995)
• Child care: Canada can’t work without it (No. 5, 1995).
• Rural child care in Ontario (No. 4, 1994) *
• Work-related child care in context: A study of work-related child care in Canada (No. 3, 1993)
• Proceedings from the Child Care Policy and Research Symposium (No. 2, 1993)
• Child care for Canadian children and families: A discussion paper (No. 1, 1993)

Other publications

• Child care space statistics 2007 (2007)
• Selected presentations from 'Broadening and deepening our understanding of quality: Working toward inclusion and equity' (2007)
• Trends & analysis 2007: Early childhood education and care in Canada (2007)
• Trend & analysis: Early childhood education and care in Canada 2004 (2005) *
• Quality in early learning and child care services: Papers from the European Commission Childcare Network (2004)
• The state of data on early childhood education and care in Canada: National Data Project final report (2003)
• Fact and fantasy: Eight myths about early childhood education and care (2003)
• Making the best use of the You Bet I Care! data sets (2002)
• The benefits and costs of good child care: The economic rationale for public investment in young children (1998) *
• Advancing early childhood care and education in Canada and the U.S, the U.K. and Australia: An international symposium (1998)
• Child care policy in Canada: An annotated bibliography (1994)
• Assessing community need for child care: Resource material for conducting community needs assessments (1989)
• Assessing child care needs: Sample questionnaires (1990)
• Flexible child care in Canada: A report on child care for evenings, overnight and weekends, emergencies and ill children, and in rural areas (1989)
• A survey of first year early childhood education students in Ontario (1989)

BRIEFing NOTES

• Ratios for four and five year olds: What does the research say? What else is important? (2009)
• Why Canada can’t work without good child care: How early childhood education and care supports the economy (2008)
• From vision to action: Early childhood education and care in 2020 (2008)
• Canada-wide spending on early childhood education and care (ECEC - 2005/2006) (2006)
• Early learning and child care: How does Canada measure up? (2006)
• The state of the national child care program and provincial/territorial contexts, March 2006 (2006)
• It was twenty years ago today...March 8, 1986 (2006)
• Quality targets in services for young children: Summary (2004)
• OECD Thematic Review of Canadian Early Childhood Education and Care: Highlights from the recommendations. (2004)
• Fact and fantasy: Eight myths about early childhood education and care – Summary (2003) *
• Early childhood education and care in Canada 2001: Summary (2002) *
• 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 - Summary / Résumé (2002)
• 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 (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)
• Is child care a good public investment? (1998) *

Fact sheets and summaries

• Values and beliefs in caring for babies and toddlers (1999)
• A framework for quality: A European perspective (1999)
• The rights of young children (1999)
• Public policy context of child care: The issue of auspice (1997)
• What does research tell us about quality in child care? (1997)
• Child care vouchers: What do we know about them? (1997)

Videotapes

• In the public interest: The benefits of high quality child care (1997) *
• Dans l'interêt de la population. La garde à l'enfance de qualité ses retombées positives. (1997)
  
• Child care by design (1995)
• Good childcare, healthy childcare (1989)

* Indicates item available in French.