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OECD THEMATIC REVIEW OF EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION AND CAREThis Issue File provides links to all the material now available from the OECD’s Thematic Review of Early Childhood Education and Care. This includes documents already linked to the CRRU website and material not previously available including other related documents and news stories about the Thematic Review. The direct link to the Thematic Review of ECEC on the OECD’s website is: http://www.oecd.org/document/3/0,3343,en_2649_34511_27000067 _1_1_1_1,00.html This Issue File is organized into the following sections: 1. Introduction
The Thematic Review of Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC) was launched by the Education Committee of the Paris-based Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) in 1998. It was motivated by a 1996 meeting of the OECD Education Ministers on the topic “Making Lifelong Learning a Reality for All”. With the aim of strengthening the foundations of lifelong learning, the ministers set a goal of improving access to and quality in early childhood education and care and recommended conducting a Thematic Review (a cross-national study). Early in the review process, country representatives agreed upon the framework, scope and process of the review, and identified the major policy issues for investigation. Each country agreed to prepare or commission a Background Report to provide contextual/demographic information and respond to a set of questions about its provision of ECEC programs and family policy. Each country was then visited by a four member international expert team that met with ECEC officials and community groups and visited ECEC programs. The team then prepared for the OECD a Country Note presenting an analysis of the country’s ELCC issues. Two summary reports were developed; Starting Strong, in 2001, and Starting Strong II in 2006. In addition, a series of international workshops on key topics (curricula and pedagogies; financing; ECEC for children from low income families; data), commissioning a paper on each topic.
On September 19, 2006, the OECD released the final summary report from the Thematic Review of Early Childhood Education and Care. Starting Strong II outlines progress made by the 20 participating countries in responding to key aspects of successful ECEC policy outlined in Starting Strong (2001). The report offers many examples of new policy initiatives adopted in the ECEC field as well as comparative data that puts each country in the international context. In their conclusions, the authors identify ten policy areas for further critical attention from governments. Print copies and full PDF of Starting Strong II are available for purchase only from the OECD Bookshop. Public access documents - Complete executive summary Related analysis Early learning and child care: How does Canada measure up? CRRU Briefing Note
The Canadian Review followed the protocols designed by participating countries. A national Background Report, answering a set of questions common to all the Country Reviews, was commissioned by Human Resources Development Canada. Following its completion, a team of four international ECEC experts came to Canada in September 2003. Based on their site visits, interviews, and review of the Background Report and other documents, the expert OECD team prepared a second report on ECEC in Canada – the Canada Country Note – identifying key strengths and weaknesses and making suggestions for progress. Public access documents - Background Report (in English; en français) - Country Note (in English; en français) - CRRU BRIEFing NOTE Highlights from the recommendations News articles about the release of the Canada Country Note Canada's new shame: Cheating its children with two-bit child care Report spurs push for child care reform A call to action on child care Quebec's the odd one out in its ambition for day care Stop tossing cash at 'bad' child care system: Analyst Child care report hailed Canada's child care will improve, Dryden insists Canada’s child care is failing, OECD says Ad hoc approach to childcare panned
Starting Strong is the comparative report on the findings from the first three years work of the Thematic Review of Early Childhood Education and Care carried out by the OECD. It includes information and data about ECEC in the 12 countries that took part in the Review's first round and the eight "policy lessons" likely to promote equitable access to quality ECEC that were identified in this phase of the work. Starting Strong observed that
Print copies and full PDF of Starting Strong (2001) are available for purchase only from the OECD Bookshop. - Executive summary CRRU BRIEFing NOTE, reproduced with permission
First round 1998-2000 AUSTRALIA FINLAND UNITED KINGDOM UNITED STATES AUSTRIA GERMANY KOREA MEXICO
Starting Strong: Curricula and pedagogies in early childhood education and care – Five curriculum outlines Financing ECEC services in OECD countries Data needs in early childhood education and care Early childhood education and care for children from low-income or minority backgrounds Early childhood education and care policy in Sweden Early child development: The base for a learning society
After the publication of the comparative report, Starting Strong II, responsibility for the Starting Strong project was passed by the Directorate for Education at the OECD to Kind en Gezin, the government agency responsible for child care in Flanders. At the request of several countries that had taken part in the reviews, the project was transformed into a specialised inter-country network, called the OECD Starting Strong Network. The Network has received a mandate from the OECD Committee for Education Policy to achieve the following goals: - To bring together senior administrators from the national ministries in charge of children's services in the member countries; |
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