‘Educare’ in Australia: analysing policy mobility and transformation     

Ian McShane 《Educational research; a review for teachers and all concerned with progress in education》2016,58(2):179-194

Abstract

Background: Early childhood education and care has been an area of significant policy attention, public investment and private market activity in Australia over the past three decades. Australian educationists and policy-makers have looked to international examples for evidence, policy design and institutional models. However, this area is under-researched in Australia, with regard to how these knowledge flows are theorised, and how policy is implemented on the ground.

Purpose: The paper’s purpose was to contribute new Australian-focussed conceptual and empirical insights on the trajectories, development and implementation of evidence-based policy in the field of early childhood education and care.

Sources of evidence: The paper is based on three main sources of evidence: ? the critical literature on policy transfer and policy mobility

? policy statements, reports and planning documents produced by national- and state-level governments

? data from fieldwork analysis of new capital works and programmes in the early childhood field.

Main argument: International research and evidence on the benefits of investment in early learning has had a significant impact on the framing of Australian policy. So too has a move in several countries to align early childhood institutions with schools. However, a dominant paradigm of policy transfer, reliant on pluralist and rationalist frameworks of policy-making, fails to account for the dynamics of policy development and implementation across and within jurisdictions and geographical space. Conceptualising a new alignment in Australia between children’s centres and schools as ‘educare’, this article employs the theoretical lens of policy mobility to account for the circulation and transformation of educare policy in Australian settings. Through an empirical analysis of a new educare centre in the growth corridor of western Melbourne, the article demonstrates the extent to which neoliberal policy settings outside the educational sphere, around public finance, partnership, place and infrastructure provision, influence the implementation of ‘educare’ policy.

Conclusions: The educare discourse in Australia addresses a complex and multiscalar set of policy problems that associate child development with concerns around human capital formation, economic efficiency and productivity, place making and community building, and the role of the public sector in neoliberal democracies. International circuits of knowledge, policy design and institutional models in the educare field have been significant in shaping recent Australian policy, despite well-publicised views expressed in Australia on the disconnection between academic research and policy. The strength of policy mobility as a theoretical lens to assist our understanding of these influences lies in its critique of formalism in policy-making and in its attention to fluidity and transformation. The mobility lens encourages new empirical research that focuses on spatial and institutional dynamics, assisting our reading of on-the-ground developments in Australia’s fastest growing city.  相似文献   

澳大利亚社会科公民教育内涵——以西澳大利亚州《社会与环境科课程框架》为例     

韩芳  李维喆 《外国教育研究》2007,34(11):32-35

澳大利亚西澳大利亚州《社会与环境科课程框架》于1999年开始实施,2004年在所有中小学全面展开,这是西澳大利亚州学校课程改革的重要举措。其主要内容包括学习结果、核心知识、发展阶段、教学和评价五个方面,对学生参与变化的世界,获得知识、技能与价值观,联系不同的观点以及具有公民责任和社会能力都有重要的意义,这也是公民教育的应有之意。  相似文献   

澳大利亚高中职业教育最新概况及启示     

吴秀杰 《世界教育信息》2006,(6):56-58

澳大利亚是世界上职业教育发达的国家之一,近年来以高中为本位的职业教育培训受到了职教界的关注。本文介绍了澳大利亚高中职业教育的最新概况,分析了澳大利亚高中职业教育培训的特点,总结了此种教育体制对我国的启示,对我国职业教育有一定的借鉴作用。  相似文献   

澳大利亚高等教育质量保障体系革新探究          下载免费PDF全文

李娜 《上海教育评估研究》2014,3(2):42-44

新一轮的“以学生为中心、以需求为驱动”的高等教育体制改革需要一个与之相应的高等 教育质量保障体系。2011 年以来,澳大利亚政府通过制定法律和资金支持进行质量保障体系改革, 建立了高等教育质量和标准署。作为一个独立的全国性的高等教育质量监管新机构,高等教育质量 和标准署代替了原来的高等教育质量保障总署,监督与管理全国高等教育机构,同时采用新教育标 准框架和风险评估框架,负责保持和提高高等教育的整体质量。  相似文献   

澳大利亚STW改革     

刘美霞 《开放教育研究》2005,11(5):82-86

本文主要介绍澳大利亚解决青年失业问题,采取STW（School-to-work）改革策略,通过政府对职业教育的改革来实现这一目的.  相似文献   

澳大利亚公共图书馆绩效评估理论与实践研究     

吕庆元 《现代情报》2010,30(10):126-132

本文旨在通过对澳大利亚公共图书馆绩效评估理论和实践的研究,获得对我国公共图书馆绩效评估的有益经验。并以澳大利亚国家图书馆、维多利亚州公共图书馆、巴瑟尔顿市公共图书馆为例,对国家、州立、市立三级图书馆的评估主体、评估目的、评估方法、评估指标进行了比较分析。  相似文献   

Racial moral panic and African youth in Australia     

《Int J Intercult Relat》2021

Since the mid-1980s, Australia has resettled thousands of African refugees. This paper focuses on the racialization of youth violence and the damage it sustains on refugee-background young Africans. The discussion proceeds in two interrelated stages. In the first stage, to understand the representation of African youth in the public sphere, the paper reviews the relevant literature, media headlines, and political commentaries. In so doing, it establishes that the continual framing of African youth as dangerous and violence-prone by conservative politicians and media outlets amounts to racial moral panic. In the second stage, guided by narrative research methodology, a small group of young Africans were invited to reflect on their everyday life under racialized frames. Accounts of the youth are presented under four themes: the presumption of guilt, emotional ill-being, opportunity hoarding, and the permanence of otherness. It is argued that, if left unaddressed, the racialization of youth violence can diminish the integration outcomes of African youth.  相似文献   

澳大利亚高等教育教学资格证书项目研究     

徐晓红 《宁波大学学报(教育科学版)》2016,(2):68-072

21世纪以来澳大利亚各大学学生人数急剧增加,来源、资质多样化,而与之并行的作为学术职业的大学教师却存在教师老龄化趋势,大量聘任兼职教师和新教师等问题,这给澳大利亚大学教师发展带来挑战。各大学相继设立教师发展制度促进教师发展,其中高等教育教育教学资格证书项目具有显著的特色和效果,该项目自20世纪80年代在澳大利亚各大学相继设立起来,在实施过程中通过明确发展教学学术的目标以及各大学联合实施项目的方式,对澳大利亚大学教师发展特别是教学学术的发展起到一定的促进作用。澳大利亚高等教育教学资格证书项目对我国建立有效的大学教师发展制度具有一定的启示作用。  相似文献   

人性化的澳大利亚高考   总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1  

马世晔 《中国考试》2009,(6)

在澳大利亚,作为大学录取依据的考试,虽然各州在称呼和具体操作有所不同,但是,一个普遍的特点是灵活、多样,个性化强,每个学生可以根据自己的特点,选择适合自己的科目考试;大学在录取时,不仅根据学生的高考成绩,同时也将平时成绩作为录取依据。灵活的高考对中学教学也起到了很好的导向作用。  相似文献   

澳大利亚新南威尔士州私学公助政策演进及实施评述     

俞婷婕 《比较教育研究》2009,31(4)

作为澳大利亚经济、文化和教育最为发达的地区之一,新南威尔士州拥有着悠久的私学公助历史,并逐渐形成了一套资助框架。文章梳理了该地区源自于殖民地时期的私学公助历史,阐述了州政府现行的资助项目及其实施办法,并对其未来的发展规划进行了介绍。最后,文章还对澳大利亚州级政府在私学公助中所扮演的角色作了分析。  相似文献