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Community development through community-based bicultural partnerships in ECCE-CYC using a generative curriculum model
Ball, Jessica, 1999
In D. Archambault, J. Whitehead, X. Gordon, & G. Huot (Eds.), Linking research to practice: A Canadian forum (pp. 73-76). Ottawa, Ontario: Canadian Child Care Federation.

Findings from an ecologically comprehensive research study of the process and impacts of an innovative approach to training culturally grounded early childhood care and education and child and youth care practitioners using a generative curriculum model

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Developing cross-cultural partnerships: Implications for child care quality research and practice
Pence, Alan R., 1994
In P. Moss & A. R. Pence (Eds.), Valuing quality in early childhood services: New approaches to defining quality (pp.108-122). London: Paul Chapman Publishing

A description of a project in which the University of Victoria worked in partnership with a council of Canadian aboriginal tribes in Saskatchewan to develop and implement a culturally-appropriate curriculum for the training of professionals in the field of child care and early education

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Developing cross-cultural partnerships: Implications for child care quality research and practice
Pence, Alan R., 1994
In P. Moss & A.R. Pence (Eds.), Valuing quality in early childhood services: New approaches to defining quality (pp. 108-122). New York: Teachers College Press

A discussion of an innovative, cross-cultural curriculum partnership between public universities and the First Nations tribes in the advancement of quality early childhood services in Canada

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ECD in Africa: A historical perspective
Prochner, Larry, 2008
In M. Garcia, A. Pence, & J. L. Evans (Eds.), Africa's future, Africa's challenge: Early childhood care and development in Sub-Saharan Africa (Directions in Development: Human Development 42700, pp. 117-133). Washington, DC: World Bank.

An examination of the history of early childhood development (ECD)-related programs in Africa, with a focus on formal programs in those parts of Africa colonized by Britain

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Fragments for a discussion about quality
Jensen, Claus, 1994
In P. Moss & A. R. Pence (Eds.), Valuing quality in early childhood services: New approaches to defining quality (pp. 142-156). London: Paul Chapman Publishing

A chronology of the changes experienced by Danish child care centers between 1943 and 1994, with an emphasis on changing perceptions of the concept of quality over time

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The impact of ECD programs and older children's school attendance in Kenya
Lokshin, Michael M., 2008
In M. Garcia, A. Pence, & J. L. Evans (Eds.), Africa's future, Africa's challenge: Early childhood care and development in Sub-Saharan Africa (Directions in Development: Human Development 42700, pp. 371-387). Washington, DC: World Bank.

An exploration of the relationship between families' access to early childhood development (ECD) programs, maternal employment, and older children’s school attendance in Kenya

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Inclusive education: A Mauritian response to the "Inherent Rights of the Child"
Chung, Gilberte Chung Kim, 2008
In M. Garcia, A. Pence, & J. L. Evans (Eds.), Africa's future, Africa's challenge: Early childhood care and development in Sub-Saharan Africa (Directions in Development: Human Development 42700, pp. 249-264). Washington, DC: World Bank.

Findings from a case study on the development of universal inclusive educational settings for children with special needs in Mauritius

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Linking policy discourse to everyday life in Kenya: Impacts of neoliberal policies on early education and childrearing
Swadener, Elizabeth Blue, 2008
In M. Garcia, A. Pence, & J. L. Evans (Eds.), Africa's future, Africa's challenge: Early childhood care and development in Sub-Saharan Africa (Directions in Development: Human Development 42700, pp. 407-426). Washington, DC: World Bank.

A discussion of the influence of local and international economic, cultural and social policies towards the rebuilding of Kenya’s infrastructure, as well as policies of lending institutions such as the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank, on children on families’ everyday lives

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Looking at quality from the child’s perspective
Langsted, Ole, 1994
In P. Moss & A.R. Pence (Eds.), Valuing quality in early childhood services: New approaches to defining quality (pp. 28-42). London: Paul Chapman Publishing

Descriptions of several Danish programs soliciting the views of children about their child care environments and incorporating their opinions into the operating procedures of child care centers

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Madrasa Early Childhood Development Program: Making a difference
Mwaura, Peter A.M., 2008
In M. Garcia, A. Pence, & J. L. Evans (Eds.), Africa's future, Africa's challenge: Early childhood care and development in Sub-Saharan Africa (Directions in Development: Human Development 42700, pp. 389-405). Washington, DC: World Bank.

A description of the Madrasa Early Child Development Program in Kenya, a comprehensive program to deliver early childhood services to Muslim children to better prepare them for school

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Measure for measure: Values, quality and evaluation
Brophy, Julia, 1994
In P. Moss & A. R. Pence (Eds.), Valuing quality in early childhood services: New approaches to defining quality (pp. 61-75). London: Paul Chapman Publishing

A description of the values-based exercise facing researchers when using a foreign measurement instrument to measure quality in child care programs, based on the experience of evaluating the quality of forty-five preschool playgroups in the United Kingdom with the Early Childhood Environment Rating Scale (ECERS)

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The New Zealand experience of charter development in early childhood services
Smith, Anne B., 1994
In P. Moss & A. R. Pence (Eds.), Valuing quality in early childhood services: New approaches to defining quality (pp. 123-141). London: Paul Chapman Publishing

A study of implementation of charter agreements between local child care providers and national funders, based on a sample of 9 child care centers in New Zealand

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No equality, no quality
Joseph, Carol, 1994
In P. Moss & A. R. Pence (Eds.), Valuing quality in early childhood services: New approaches to defining quality (pp. 92-107). London: Paul Chapman Publishing

An exploration of manifestations of racism in British early childhood services

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The postmodern curriculum: Making space for historically and politically situated understandings
Pacini-Ketchabaw, Veronica, March, 2011
Australasian Journal of Early Childhood, 36(1), 4-8

A consideration of challenges and limitations associated with postmodern changes in the concept of process quality in the early childhood curricula of Canada and a discussion of difficulties educators may encounter when engaged with curricula frameworks based in postmodernism

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Promoting healthy environments for children and youth through participatory, bicultural, community-based training partnerships
Ball, Jessica, 1999
Notos: Intercultural and Secondary Language Council Journal, 1(1), 26-33

An examination of the Early Childhood Education/Child and Youth Care (ECE/CYC) training program to assist providers and communities in the provision of healthy environments for children and youth living in the First Nations in Canada

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Quality child care and community development: What is the connection?
Ball, Jessica, 2002
In M.V. Hayes & L.T. Foster (Eds.), Too small to see, too big to ignore: Child health and well-being in British Columbia (pp. 75-102). Canada: University of Victoria (B.C.), Western Geographical Press.

A study of the relationship between quality child care and community development in promoting the coordination and integration of services for children and their families in Canada

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Quality in school-age child care services: An inquiry about values
Petrie, Pat, 1994
In P. Moss & A. R. Pence (Eds.), Valuing quality in early childhood services: New approaches to defining quality (pp. 76-91). London: Paul Chapman Publishing

An identification of the values and aims guiding the day-to-day practices of 15 after-school programs for school-aged children in England, Scotland, and Wales

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The relationship of regulation, training, and motivation to quality of care in family day care
Pence, Alan R., 1991
Child & Youth Care Forum, 20(2), 83-101

An article relating child care quality to family child care characteristics

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Strategic communication in early childhood development programs: The case of Uganda
Cabanero-Verzosa, Cecilia, 2008
In M. Garcia, A. Pence, & J. L. Evans (Eds.), Africa's future, Africa's challenge: Early childhood care and development in Sub-Saharan Africa (Directions in Development: Human Development 42700, pp. 331-351). Washington, DC: World Bank.

A discussion of the role of strategic communication in the development and implementation of early childhood programs in Uganda

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Supporting indigenous children's development: Community-university partnerships
Ball, Jessica, 2006
Vancouver, Canada: University of British Columbia Press

A description and account of the outcomes of a course of study that stresses the importance of community partnerships and aboriginal values instead of Western best practices, designed for preservice teachers intending to work in aboriginal communities in Canada

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Time and tide: An overview of the Canadian National Child Care Survey
Pence, Alan R., 1997
Child & Youth Care Forum, 26(4), 223-245

An overview of the Canadian National Child Care Study (CNCCS) designed to provide data on child care needs, as well as to examine relationships between child care, work and family from both policy and theoretical perspectives

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Two sides of an eagle's feather: Co-constructing ECCD training curricula in university partnerships with Canadian First Nations communities
Pence, Alan R., 1999
In H. Penn (Ed.), Theory, policy and practice in early childhood services. Buckingham, United Kingdom: Open University Press

A description of the partnerships between First Nations’ Tribes and universities for the betterment of early childhood education and care in western Canada

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Who cares for the child in day care?: An examination of caregivers from three types of care
Pence, Alan R., 1987
Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 2(4), 315-334

A study comparing the characteristics and attitudes of center-based and licensed and unlicensed family child care workers, based on interviews

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Working in conflict: Developing a dynamic model of quality
Penn, Helen, 1994
In In P. Moss & A.R. Pence (Eds.), Valuing quality in early childhood services: New approaches to defining quality (pp. 11-27). London: Paul Chapman Publishing

A description of the discussion of quality that took place during the creation of a new policy statement preceding a bureaucratic reorganization of early childhood services in Strathclyde, Scotland

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