Quality Assurance Whose Quality and Whose Assurance?
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Government involvement in quality assurance is becoming the trend in many countries, including New Zealand. What values underpin the systems that evolve in each country, and who has given legitimacy to them? In the context of the prevailing ideology of early childhood, this paper unpacks quality assurance in Australia and comments on the assumptions, taken for granted premises and values which are implicit within such a process, with a view to providing valuable lessons for others who are considering going down this path.
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