The challenge of care: Early childhood education and care in Canada and Quebec

Abstract:

In "The Challenge of Care: Early Childhood Education and Care in Canada and Quebec," Laurie Adkin and Yasmeen Abu-Laban address the debate in Canada regarding the relative merits of existing child care programs and policies in which those in Quebec are typically taken as the most desirable. Drawing on and extending Nancy Fraser's universal caregiver model, they develop a critique that brings out the neoliberal, Third Way, and social conservative elements of the debate. They go on to argue that, in different ways, all of the existing policies and services, including those in Quebec, fail to adequately recognize and reorganize care work and child care services.