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dc.contributor.authorDobozy, Eva
dc.date.accessioned2017-01-30T12:33:52Z
dc.date.available2017-01-30T12:33:52Z
dc.date.created2013-11-20T20:00:27Z
dc.date.issued2013
dc.identifier.citationDobozy, Eva. 2013. The leveraging influence of strategic alignment: What constitutes early childhood in current Australian policy debates? Australasian Journal of Early Childhood. 38 (3): pp. 112-117.
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/22839
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This paper illustrates the value of strategic alignment as a model to navigate the current Australian education landscape, highlighting numerous changes to national overseeing bodies and their mandates. More importantly, it provides a critical review of recent government agency changes and policy agendas, making overt the existence of complex and incoherent ideas concerning the notion of early childhood. Based on the current analysis, it is concluded that no common conceptualisation exists at the national level of what constitutes early childhood and by default, early childhood education. This is a disturbing state of affairs, which makes the work of responsible statutory agencies, overseeing national bodies and state departments overseeing the implementation of new national policy directives very difficult.

dc.publisherEarly Childhood Australia
dc.titleThe leveraging influence of strategic alignment: What constitutes early childhood in current Australian policy debates?
dc.typeJournal Article
dcterms.source.volume38
dcterms.source.number3
dcterms.source.startPage112
dcterms.source.endPage117
dcterms.source.issn03125033
dcterms.source.titleAustralasian Journal of Early Childhood
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curtin.accessStatusOpen access


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