Defining Quality: New Insights for Training Practitioners

Résumé

Quality early childhood care and education has long been a focus for the field in theUnited States, but only more recently have instructors working with NativeAmerican families begun to question if there is more to quality than nationalstandards of group size, staff ratios, and training. The author describes a journey thatbegan with the Indigenous ECD Symposium in Victoria, British Columbia toexamine more closely what quality may mean to Native families in the US.