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Parent users of high-quality long day care: Informed consumers of child care?
Fenech, Marianne, March, 2011
Australasian Journal of Early Childhood, 36(1), 95-103

A study of parents' perspectives of center quality, based on data from 139 parents whose children attend six high quality child care model centers in New South Wales, Australia

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Influences on politicians' decision making for early childhood education and care policy: What do we know? What don't we know?
Bown, Kathryn, September, 2009
Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood, 10(3), 194-217

A review of literature on the influences on the decisions of politicians with regards to early childhood education and care and broader contexts, including reports on two empirical studies and research on the influence of political insiders, subjectivity and "the political", political outsiders, media and discourse, and political context and time

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A shared early childhood development research agenda: Key research gaps 2010-2015
Harrison, Linda, 04 March, 2011
Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia: Australia, Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations.

A review of research on early childhood development in Australia, with a focus on early childhood education and care, to identfy gaps in research evidence on early childhood developmental needs

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Optimising professionalism and quality in long day care: Early childhood professionals' perceptions of the impact of the regulatory environment
Fenech, Marianne, 2004
Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Australian Association for Research in Education, Melbourne, Australia.

An Australian investigation of early childhood professionals' perceptions of the impact of statutory, regulatory and other externally determined requirements on their capacity to provide high quality care and education for young children

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Promoting early childhood teacher professionalism in the Australian context: The place of resistance
Fenech, Marianne, March, 2010
Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood, 11(1), 89-105

An examination notions of early childhood staffs' notions of professionalism and quality in early care and education, based data from interviews and focus groups with participants of one early care and education center that is part of a larger Investigating Quality research project in Australia

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The regulatory environment: A source of job (dis)satisfaction for early childhood professionals?
Fenech, Marianne, January 2008
Early Child Development and Care, 178(1), 1-14

An examination of the influence of regulatory requirements on job satisfaction among early childhood professionals employed in private sector child care centers in New South Wales, Australia

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The regulatory environment in long day care: A 'double-edged sword' for early childhood professional practice
Fenech, Marianne, 2006
Australian Journal of Early Childhood, 31(3), 49-58

An examination of how Australian child care professionals working in long day care centers perceive government regulations and their feelings on how the regulations impact their practice

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Promoting high quality early childhood education and care services: Beyond risk management, performative constructions of regulation
Fenech, Marianne, 2007
Journal of Early Childhood Research, 5(3), 263-283

A study of staff opinions about the two-tiered regulatory environment in which long-day child care centers in New South Wales operate, based on the questionnaire responses of 212 members of the child care workforce

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