Retaining a Diverse Early Care and Education Workforce through Professionalization
2021-08
Loading...
Persistent link to this item
Statistics
View StatisticsJournal Title
Journal ISSN
Volume Title
Title
Retaining a Diverse Early Care and Education Workforce through Professionalization
Authors
Published Date
2021-08
Publisher
Type
Thesis or Dissertation
Abstract
Advances in the understanding of the potential of early child care to promote healthy child development have been a driving force behind the push to bring the early care and education (ECE) field into a unified system. The field has long been bifurcated, with 'child care´ or 'daycare´ being associated with enabling parental employment and ³early childhood education´ focused on child development (Rhodes & Huston, 2012). With the modern advances in early childhood neuroscience, it is clear that any experiences for a child in their first few years of life are developmental; the issue is whether the development contributes positively or negatively to a child's future cognitive skills, and physical and mental health (Center on the Developing Child, 2007; Shonkoff & Levitt, 2010). Efforts to develop the ECE field into a unified system with a unified set of standards and goals, rather than a hodge-podge of regulations and supports, presents a unique policy making opportunity. The ECE field enters this effort to unify with a key asset that the K-12 education system has struggled to develop: a racially, ethnically, and linguistically diverse workforce that reflects the child population.
Description
Professional paper for the fulfillment of the Master of Public Policy degree.
Related to
Replaces
License
Collections
Series/Report Number
Funding information
Isbn identifier
Doi identifier
Previously Published Citation
Suggested citation
Rau, Lisa. (2021). Retaining a Diverse Early Care and Education Workforce through Professionalization. Retrieved from the University Digital Conservancy, https://hdl.handle.net/11299/229863.
Content distributed via the University Digital Conservancy may be subject to additional license and use restrictions applied by the depositor. By using these files, users agree to the Terms of Use. Materials in the UDC may contain content that is disturbing and/or harmful. For more information, please see our statement on harmful content in digital repositories.