ニュージーランドにおける乳幼児保育制度 －幼保一元化のもとでの現状とそこからの示唆－

• Main Authors: 松井 由佳, 瓜生 淑子
• Format: Report
• Language: Japanese
• Published: 奈良教育大学 2010
• Subjects: New Zealand; Early childhood education and care (ECEC); Integration of ECEC; 10-year strategic plan; ニュージーランド; 乳幼児保育; 幼保一元化; 10か年計画; ETYP：教育関連論文; First Nations
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10105/4719; https://nara-edu.repo.nii.ac.jp/?action=repository_uri&item_id=9102; https://nara-edu.repo.nii.ac.jp/?action=repository_action_common_download&item_id=9102&item_no=1&attribute_id=17&file_no=1

Early childhood education and care (ECEC) has recently been a hot topic in OECD and economically advanced countries. New Zealand was one of the first nations to establish an integrated ECEC system, which is based on pseudo-vouchers. The integration process involved a neck-and-neck race between the neoliberal economic reformers who aim to create a competitive environment for ECEC providers, and the interested parties including parents who wish to ensure that all children have equal opportunity to receive high-quality ECEC. Bearing this in mind, this study describes New Zealand' s diverse but comprehensive ECEC system, tracks the progress of its 10-year strategic plan since 2002, and reports recent ECEC trends in New Zealand including the introduction of 20-hour free ECEC system for 3 and 4 year-olds. The study intends to provide a point of view from which to discuss Japan' s future ECEC system, which now faces a turning point.