Browsing by Author "Gallagher A"

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    At home in preschool care? Childcare policy and the negotiated spaces of educational care
    (ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD, 1/05/2013) Gallagher A
    Concerns have been raised across a range of discplinary perspectices about the heightened policy expectations which are being placed on the educational outcomes of preschool services leading to suggestions of over formalisation of the preschool space. In light of these concerns, this paper will explore how new socio-economic expectations around educational care are actually shaping the preschool space. By doing so I will argue that concerns over the formalisation of educational care need to be considered with reference to the different contexts and sectors in which educational care is being provided. In offering a more situated analysis, formalisation processes can be seen as highly contingent, as they are articulated within existing social norms around the care of young children. © 2013 Copyright Taylor and Francis Group, LLC.
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    E-portfolios and relational space in the early education environment
    (Sciendo, 1/06/2018) Gallagher A
    This paper considers the role of eportfolios as an online tool intended to foster greater engagement between parent, teacher and child in early education settings. Drawing on New Zealand based research, I will critically examine the introduction of this technology as more than an addition into already existing ECEC services. Rather, I will highlight the generative impact it has in facilitating new kinds of relations between parents, teachers and managers, within what I term an emergent 'virtual landscape of ECEC'. Ultimately I argue that this landscape is shaped by asymmetries of power, which allow for processes of subjectification and governing in ECEC to occur in new ways.
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    Growing pains? Change in the New Zealand childcare market 2006–2016
    (1/04/2017) Gallagher A
    There has been a significant growth in childcare in New Zealand (NZ) since 2006. Shaped by debates around the marketisation of childcare, this paper will make some key observations about the NZ childcare market. I will argue that the landscape of childcare has changed in favour of a burgeoning private sector and consider the recent impetus for corporatisation. Finally, I will examine the discourse of parental ‘choice’ which pervades policy discussions around ECE in New Zealand and how this plays out in the face of an expanding private for-profit sector.
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    Sharing the Waiwhakaiho
    Richardson JM; Ryan AM; Mansvelt J; Gallagher A; FitzHerbert S
    ‘Sharing the Waiwhakaiho’ directed by Anand Rose http://www.greencow.co.nz was made as part of a Living Lab project led by Massey University’s School of People, Environment and Planning in collaboration with the following people and organisations, and supported by Massey University’s Strategic Innovation Fund.
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    The Politics of Childcare Provisioning: A Geographical Perspective
    (1/02/2013) Gallagher A
    Childcare has been an important site of analysis for feminist geographers over the last twenty years. This paper will offer a review of work to date in geography which focuses on childcare. The review is organised under three themes; the changing policy landscape around childcare and its implications for service provision, the spatial politics of access to childcare and the (re)production of childcare as 'women's work'. Given the breadth of work in these areas, and reflecting the contexts in which much of this work has been conducted, the debates highlighted speak to concerns raised in liberal welfare regimes. In the process I argue that there remain pertinent areas where geographers are well placed to contribute and signal some new questions which need to be asked around the politics of childcare provision today. © 2013 Blackwell Publishing Ltd.