ece@2000.aotearoa.nz: Mapping the Landscape of the “Century of the Child”

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  • Helen May

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.26686/nzaroe.v0i9.1383

Keywords:

Early Childhood Education

Abstract

The “Century of the Child” was so named in 1900 by the Swedish writer Ellen Key. In its concluding year, this chapter sketches some maps of childhood in “Aotearoa New Zealand” in terms of: changes in how our society has viewed “children before five”; the emergence of institutions outside of the family to care and educate the “before fives”; different constructions of “before five” childhood and child institutions for Maori and Pakeha; the present context of early childhood services sited amidst new economic and political discourses that are transforming the role of the state.

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Author Biography

Helen May

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Published

1999-02-08