Download or read book What is the Best Policy Mix for Canada s Young Children computer File written by Sharon M. (Sharon Mae) Stroick and published by Canadian Policy Research Networks. This book was released on 1999 with total page 127 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book What Is the Best Policy Mix for Canada s Young Children written by Sharon Mae Stroick and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book What Is the Best Policy Mix for Canada s Young Children Sharon M Stroick Ph D MCIP Jane Jenson Ph D CPRN Study No F 09 written by and published by . This book was released on with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Children are "nested" in multiple environments: the child within the family, the family within the larger community of neighbourhoods and workplaces, the community as defined by different geographic and political boundaries, the public institutions (such as schools) that provide community infrastructure, and the govern- ments that provide the resources and policies that allow each of these nests t. [...] Suzanne Peters, the commitment of Judith Maxwell, the ingenuity of the cadre of researchers who contributed to the project, and the generous support of the project funders. [...] These core commitments were supplemented by the sage advice willingly provided throughout the project by members of the Best Policy Mix for Children Advisory Committee, the voluntary participation of experts from across Canada who readily shared their insights and experience via roundtables, workshops and the review of papers, and the administra- tive and technical support provided by the Canadian. [...] The development of a societal strategy for children that includes the best possible mix of policies requires innovative thinking and the adjust- ment of longstanding habits by governments and other policymakers in the private and voluntary sectors. [...] Children are "nested" in multiple environ- ments: the child within the family, the family within the larger community of neighbourhoods and workplaces, the community as defined by different geographic and political boundaries, the public institutions that provide community in- frastructure, and the governments that provide the resources and enabling policies that allow each of these nests to funct.
Download or read book What is the Best Mix of Policies for Canada s Children written by Shelley Ann Phipps and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Values and Preferences for the best Policy Mix for Canadian Children computer File written by Canadian Policy Research Networks. Family Network and published by Ottawa: Canadian Policy Research Networks. This book was released on 1999 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Changing Canada written by Wallace Clement and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2003 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Changing Canada examines political transformations, welfare state restructuring, international boundaries and contexts, the new urban experience and creative resistance. The authors question dominant ways of thinking and promote alternative ways of understanding and explaining Canadian society and politics that encourage progressive social change. They examine how the evolution of capitalism is producing new types of transformations and new forms of resistance, and show that aspects of the state and the wider society are being contested. They also discuss the often paradoxical or contradictory effects of various social forces, such as the liberating but also constraining features of new communications technologies, new employment norms and new household forms.
Download or read book An International Comparison of Policies and Outcomes for Young Children written by Shelley Ann Phipps and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The goal of this project is to explore possible linkages between social policy mix and outcomes for young children in Canada, the Netherlands, Norway, the United Kingdom and the United States. Since the analysis is quantitative in nature, the focus is primarily on the tax and transfer programmes available in the five countries that can more easily be studied using quantitative techniques. The research attempts to move us toward an improved understanding of possible links between the mix of programmes available for children in any country and outcomes for children in that country.
Download or read book Our Children s Future written by Gordon Cleveland and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2001-01-01 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Assembling key experts and activists in the area of Canadian child care policy, this book makes an important contribution to understanding how Canada, with its particular institutions, politics, and values, should design a national child care strategy.
Download or read book Making Change written by Sheila H. Kieran and published by ECW Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Laidlaw Foundation was established in 1949 by Walter and Robert Laidlaw, sons of the founder of the R. Laidlaw Lumber Company. This book is a history of the Laidlaw family, how it amassed money, and why the brothers decided to disperse it as they did. Making Change is also a record of the work of the foundation over the past 50 years. The impact has been to help children in need, to train scholars, and to support social, cultural, and environmental causes. Overall, this book seeks to identify what motivates people to act philanthropically and the implications of their doing so. It is interesting to understand what persuades wealthy people to give away their money and provide leadership in areas where government stewardship is lacking.
Download or read book Caring for Canadians in a Canada Strong and Free written by Mike Harris and published by The Fraser Institute. This book was released on 2005 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the "democratic deficit" present in Confederation today and applies to it these foundational principles: expanding Canadians' freedom of choice; challenging Canadians to accept greater personal responsibility; and deepening Canada's practice of federal democracy."
Download or read book New Approaches to Early Child Development written by H. Goelman and published by Springer. This book was released on 2011-06-06 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book describes the findings of a five-year journey of inquiry of medical and social scientists. Of particular interest and emphasis are issues of gender, poverty, Aboriginal status, and cultural factors that frame the lives of "typical" and "non-typical" young children and their families in urban, rural and remote communities.
Download or read book A POLICY BLUEPRINT FOR CANADA S CHILDREN written by and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Specifically, by examining the policy goals and instruments that can be used by the public, private and voluntary sectors, it provides a policy blueprint for creating the enabling condi- tions that can lead to improved child outcomes.1 Concern for good child outcomes gave rise to the major project, What Is the Best Policy Mix for Canada's Children?, undertaken by the Family Network of the Canadian. [...] The overall project goal was, and is, to contribute to the development of a societal strategy for Canada's children.2 To get there, and to ground its conclusions in evidence-based research, CPRN as- sessed the situation of Canadian children and their families, including the values held by Canadians about issues related to parenting. [...] There is agreement that "good" child outcomes are associated with: (1) the achievement of a spec- trum of stage salient developmental tasks, (2) the attainment of human capital, meaning the acquisi- tion of knowledge and skills needed to make a productive contribution to the economy, and (3) the demonstration of social capacity, meaning the pres- ence of empathy for others that reflects concern fo. [...] • One of the goals of the income tested Canada Child Tax Benefit is to "help with the cost of raising children." Child Benefits • The National Child Benefit (NCB) provides the framework for child benefits. [...] RE FLEXION18 By "observing the situation on the ground" as well as listening to the hopes and difficulties parents and their advocates describe in achieving the three enabling conditions, we have constructed the fol- lowing list of the major gaps in the mix of Canada's policies toward children and their families: • Little recognition of the costs that all parents bear when raising children • Insuf.
Download or read book Child Care Policy at the Crossroads written by Sonya Michel and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-12-16 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Whether childcare is seen as part of society's educational policy, welfare policy, or employment policy affects not only its form and content but also its public image. The contributors in this volume use current polices for the care of infants and preschool children to analyze debates and track the emergence of new state welfare practices across a variety of social and political configurations-and offer some conclusions about which methods work the best.
Download or read book Good Government Good Citizens written by W.A. Bogart and published by UBC Press. This book was released on 2007-10-01 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Good Government? Good Citizens? explores the evolving concept of the citizen in Canada at the beginning of this century. Three forces are at work in reconstituting the citizen in this society: courts, politics, and markets. Many see these forces as intersecting and colliding in ways that are fundamentally reshaping the relationship of individuals to the state and to each other. How has Canadian society actually been transformed? Is the state truly in retreat? Do individuals, in fact, have a fundamentally altered sense of their relationship to government and to each other? Have courts and markets supplanted representative politics regarding the expression of basic values? Must judicialized protection of human rights and minority interests necessarily mean a diminished concern for the common good on the part of representative politics? To what extent should markets and representative politics maintain a role in the protection of human rights and minority interests? Will representative politics ever hold the public trust again? Good Government? Good Citizens? responds to these questions. It does so by examining the altered roles of courts, politics, and markets over the last two decades. It then examines a number of areas to gauge the extent of the evidence regarding transformations that have occurred because of these changing roles. There are chapters on the First Peoples, cyberspace, education, and on an ageing Canada. The book concludes with reflections on the “good citizen” at the dawning of the new century. Of particular interest to professors and students of law and political science, Good Government? Good Citizens? will appeal to anyone interested in the changing face of Canada and its citizens.
Download or read book Constructing Policy Change written by Linda A. White and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2017-01-01 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Constructing Policy Change, Linda A. White examines the expansion of early childhood education and care (ECEC) policies and programs in liberal welfare states, including Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the UK, and the USA. In the first part of the book, the author investigates the sources of policy ideas that triggered ECEC changes in various national contexts. This is followed by a close analysis of cross-national variation in the implementation of ECEC policy in Canada and the USA. White argues that the primary mechanisms for policy change are grounded in policy investment logics as well as cultural logics: that is, shifts in public sentiments and government beliefs about the value of ECEC policies and programs are rooted in both evidence-based arguments and in principled beliefs about the policy. A rich, nuanced examination of the reasons motivating ECEC policy expansion and adoption in different countries, Constructing Policy Change is a corrective to the comparative welfare state literature that focuses on political interest alone.
Download or read book Research Handbook of Policy Design written by Peters, B. G. and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2022-04-08 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This visionary Research Handbook presents the state of the art in research on policy design. By conceiving policy design both as a theoretical and a methodological framework, it provides scholars and practitioners with guidance on understanding policy problems and devising accurate solutions.
Download or read book A Question of Commitment written by Katherine Covell and published by Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press. This book was released on 2007-06-15 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1991, the Government of Canada ratified the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, requiring governments at all levels to ensure that Canadian laws and practices safeguard the rights of children. A Question of Commitment: Children’s Rights in Canada is the first book to assess the extent to which Canada has fulfilled this commitment. The editors, R. Brian Howe and Katherine Covell, contend that Canada has wavered in its commitment to the rights of children and is ambivalent in the political culture about the principle of children’s rights. A Question of Commitment expands the scope of the editors’ earlier book, The Challenge of Children’s Rights for Canada, by including the voices of specialists in particular fields of children’s rights and by incorporating recent developments.
