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CAYC 2025 Annual General Meeting
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Meeting Format:
6:30-7:30 - Engaging Conversations: Let’s Talk about Quality
7:30-8:00 - CAYC Annual General Business Meeting
Let’s Talk about Quality
Quality is one of those common-sense terms that are seemingly indisputable. Of course, we want and strive for quality in early childhood education. Yet, quality is used to define and judge what makes an early childhood program ‘good.’
The Government of Canada has emphasized that quality is the foundational element of the Canada Wide Early Learning and Child Care (CWELCC) system. This commitment is reflected in various federal initiatives and legislative efforts aimed at ensuring that all children have access to high-quality, affordable, and inclusive child care.
Come prepared to engage in a lively dialogue as we contemplate the current conditions of early childhood education. We wonder:
- What might it mean to think ‘beyond quality’?
- What does ‘quality’ really mean, and who decides what is considered ‘good’ education?
- How can we challenge traditional systems of power and control that often defines early childhood education, and open more democratic, participatory ways of working with children?
- What and who is excluded in particular definitions around what is quality?