Open AccessIs Cinderella Back Among the Cinders? A Review of Early Childhood Education in the Early 1990s
Author(s) -
Carmen Dalli
Publication year - 1993
Publication title -
new zealand annual review of education
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1178-3311
pISSN - 1171-3283
DOI - 10.26686/nzaroe.v0i3.1078
Subject(s) - retrenchment , optimism , early childhood education , early childhood , political science , psychology , economic growth , pedagogy , developmental psychology , economics , public administration , social psychology
The nineties started out as a time of optimism for the early childhood education sector: the Before Five policies, including phased implementation of higher funding, had just come on stream; policies were put in place in the late 1980s to improve the quality of early childhood education and were coming to fruition. The 1991 budget dampened this optimism: early childhood funding was capped at 1990 levels and a period of retrenchment set in. This paper discusses early childhood education policies over the last three years and some of the issues that arise from these.