Susan Prentice
Biographic Data
| ID | 299033 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Susan Prentice |
| GIVEN NAMES | Susan |
| FAMILY NAME | Prentice |
| SIGNATURE | PRENTICE S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Manitoba |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5029-5578 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 24 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 84 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 24 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1983 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Teaching Family? Care/Work Policy in Selected Family Courses in Canada’s Research-Intensive Universities
To what degree is explicit care/work policy taught in family courses in Canada’s leading research-intensive universities? We analyze family courses in sociology departments and in political studies and women’s/gender studies programs in Canada’s 15 R1 universities to make a contribution to the scholarship of teaching and learning. This national scan marks a methodological innovation from curriculum studies that generally adopt a single-program or…
Face to Face with a Sexist Robot: Investigating How Women React to Sexist Robot Behaviors
Please help us: Canadian childcare providers’ calls for aid during the Covid-19 pandemic
COVID-19 poses serious challenges to the health and safety of childcare providers, and these challenges were particularly acute in early 2022 during the first Omicron wave when vaccines were not available for children. Childcare providers work in environments where the recommended methods to minimize COVID-19 infection were often not possible to implement: children could not wear masks for extended periods and were not able to maintain physical d…
I'm kind of in a dilemma: The Challenges of Non-Standard Work Schedules and Childcare
Canada has long been criticized for its patchwork of childcare policies and programmes. In this context, parents who work non-standard hours face additional challenges finding, affording, and maintaining stable childcare. Drawing on a purposive sample of twenty Canadian parents of young children who have non-standard work schedules, we explore the challenges these parents face, the strategies they use, and the impacts of current childcare policie…
Early Childhood Education in Canada During a Pandemic
In Fall 2020, we circulated a call for papers for a special issue, "COVID and Beyond: Reconfiguring Early Childhood Education in Canada for the 21 st Century. " In seeking submissions, we noticed that the COVID virus had thrown the issue of childcare, as well as the fragility of the early childhood education system, into sharp relief. We sought theoretical and/or empirical papers that reflected on the current moment and imagined a reconfigured fu…
Who cares for carers? How discursive constructions of care work marginalized early childhood educators in Ontario’s 2018 provincial election
In the Canadian province of Ontario, the early childhood education and care workforce continues to be undervalued, underpaid and burdened with challenging working conditions. Drawing on Fairclough and Lazar, this study employed a feminist critical discourse analysis to explore the discourses of care work present in the 2018 childcare platforms of three major parties: the Liberal Party, the New Democratic Party and the Progressive Conservative Par…
Childcare deserts and distributional disadvantages: The legacies of split childcare policies and programmes in Canada
Early childhood education and care (ECEC) policies and services in Canada exhibit marked gaps in access, creating ‘childcare deserts’ and distributional disadvantages. Cognate family policies that support children and families, such as parental leave and child benefits, are also underdeveloped. This article examines the current state of ECEC services in Canada and the reasons behind the uncoordinated array of services and policy, namely, a libera…
Caring about care: Reasserting care as integral to early childhood education and care practice, politics and policies in Canada
Care and education have deep historical divisions in the Canadian policy landscape: care is traditionally situated as a private, gendered, and a welfare problem, whereas education is seen as a universal public good. Since the early 2000s, the entrenched divide between private care and public education has been challenged by academic, applied and political settings mainly through human capital investment arguments. This perspective allocates scarc…
Investigating People’s Rapport Building and Hindering Behaviors When Working with a Collaborative Robot
Modern industrial robots are increasingly moving toward collaborating with people on complex tasks as team members, and away from working in isolated cages that are separated from people. Collaborative robots are programmed to use social communication techniques with people, enabling human team members to use their existing inter-personal skills to work with robots, such as speech, gestures, or gaze. Research is increasingly investigating how rob…
O Desafio Do Atendimento À Criança Rural No Canadá
No Canadá, o atendimento à infância é pouco desenvolvido, apesar de o país ser uma federação rica. Ao contrário de muitas políticas sociais bem desenvolvidas, os serviços de atendimento à infância são principalmente ofertados por meio de mercados voluntários, comerciais ou sem fins lucrativos, em vez de iniciativas governamentais. Essa estrutura política desfavorece todas as crianças e famílias e tem consequências severas, particularmente para ca…
Early childhood education and care reform in Canadian provinces: Understanding the role of experts and evidence in policy change
In over half of Canada's provinces, a recent commission has recommended major reform of ECEC systems; in response, provincial governments in nearly all cases have chosen to implement full‐day kindergarten funded by the province and delivered through public schools. We analyze the commission processes that led to changes to investigate the relationship between experts, policy makers, and policy outcomes. Our analysis of processes in BC, Alberta, O…
The evidence base for early childhood education and care programme investment: What we know, what we don’t know
An expanding body of research demonstrates that high quality early childhood education and care (ECEC) programmes generate positive outcomes for children; in response, policy makers in a number of countries are making significant programme investments. No research consensus, however, has emerged around the specific types of policy intervention that are most effective. Much remains to be clarified in terms of specific policy interventions that flo…
Regional Economic Development and Child Care: Toward Social Rights
Economic arguments are now at the center of child care policy discussions in the United States and Canada. We review the main economic logics applied to child care, namely long-term studies of child development on school readiness and future workforce, and short-term analyses of impacts on the regional economy. We analyze a sample of economic development–focused child care studies to demonstrate how they draw on a new discursive frame, authorize …
Ten Years After: Sex and Salaries at a Canadian University
This paper examines salaries at the University of Manitoba to determine whether a 1994 remedy, paid in response to a 1993 salary study that demonstrated a gap between the salaries of males and females, has eliminated these differences. We use 1993 and 2003 data to approximate the earlier analysis, and apply a Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition to examine the evolution in the wage gap between time periods. Our results indicate that the gap remains large…
High Stakes: The 'Investable' Child and the Economic Reframing of Childcare
Manitoba's Childcare Regime: Social Liberalism in Flux
This article assesses the "social liberalism" of Manitoba's childcare system, drawing on welfare state regime theory. Childcare in Manitoba is characterized by more social solidarity than in other English provinces. Longstanding design features have created a distinctly progressive Manitoba tradition in childcare, in place since the establishment of provincially regulated childcare. Recently, under the NDP, restructuring has occurred in childcare…
Manitoba's Childcare Regime: Social Liberalism in Flux
Susan Prentice, Manitoba's Childcare Regime: Social Liberalism in Flux, The Canadian Journal of Sociology / Cahiers canadiens de sociologie, Vol. 29, No. 2, Special Issue on Social Policy: Canadian and International Perspectives (Spring, 2004), pp. 193-207
Changing Child Care: Five Decades of Child Care Advocacy and Policy in Canada
Children's Interest/Mothers' Rights: The Shaping of America's Child Care Policy
Why is the United States one of the few advanced democratic market societies that do not offer child care as a universal public benefit or entitlement? This book--a comprehensive history of child care policy and practices in the United States from the colonial period to the present--shows why the current child care system evolved as it has and places its history within a broad comparative context. Drawing on a full range of archival material, Son…
The Conceptual Politics of Chilly Climate Controversies
Across Canadian campuses, ‘chilly climate’ reports are produced by feminists and other equity-seekers, and are opposed by those who dispute both the diagnosis and the prescription for action contained in them. This article explores the conceptual debate which underlies chilly climate clashes, examining the contested meaning and practice of equality, responsibility, and the proving and remedying of discrimination. An analysis of the discursive deb…
“Less, Worse and More Expensive: Childcare in an Era of Deficit Reduction”
Despite the enormous need of children, mothers, families and employers for childcare, its provision is worsening in Canada in the 1990s. Although more is known about the positive impacts of high quality early childhood care and education on child development than ever before, few children have access to high quality early childhood care. Although women's increasing participation in paid work means there is a greater need for non-family care, chil…
Pushing the frontiers of the internet in a cooperative Chinese database
This paper describes the history, development and features of a cooperative project between the Australian National University Library and the National Library of China to create a searchable database of tables of contents of selected Chinese serials accessible via the Internet. Utilising the National Library of China's rich collections and the Australian National University Library's technological expertise, the database will provide access to s…
Workers, Mothers, Reds: Toronto’s Postwar Daycare Fight
The 'common-sense' history of organized feminism in Canada assumes a black hole of inactivity in the long stretch of decades between the early suffragettes and the recent 'second wave.' Yet a closer reading of history reveals a continuous struggle by and for Canadian women to improve their economic, political and social condition
Beg, Borrow or Buy: Developing a Chinese Periodical Collection at the Australian National University
I'm kind of in a dilemma: The Challenges of Non-Standard Work Schedules and Childcare
Canada has long been criticized for its patchwork of childcare policies and programmes. In this context, parents who work non-standard hours face additional challenges finding, affording, and maintaining stable childcare. Drawing on a purposive sample of twenty Canadian parents of young children who have non-standard work schedules, we explore the challenges these parents face, the strategies they use, and the impacts of current childcare policie…
Childcare deserts and distributional disadvantages: The legacies of split childcare policies and programmes in Canada
Early childhood education and care (ECEC) policies and services in Canada exhibit marked gaps in access, creating ‘childcare deserts’ and distributional disadvantages. Cognate family policies that support children and families, such as parental leave and child benefits, are also underdeveloped. This article examines the current state of ECEC services in Canada and the reasons behind the uncoordinated array of services and policy, namely, a libera…
The Conceptual Politics of Chilly Climate Controversies
Across Canadian campuses, ‘chilly climate’ reports are produced by feminists and other equity-seekers, and are opposed by those who dispute both the diagnosis and the prescription for action contained in them. This article explores the conceptual debate which underlies chilly climate clashes, examining the contested meaning and practice of equality, responsibility, and the proving and remedying of discrimination. An analysis of the discursive deb…
High Stakes: The 'Investable' Child and the Economic Reframing of Childcare
Regional Economic Development and Child Care: Toward Social Rights
Economic arguments are now at the center of child care policy discussions in the United States and Canada. We review the main economic logics applied to child care, namely long-term studies of child development on school readiness and future workforce, and short-term analyses of impacts on the regional economy. We analyze a sample of economic development–focused child care studies to demonstrate how they draw on a new discursive frame, authorize …
Changing Child Care: Five Decades of Child Care Advocacy and Policy in Canada
Children's Interest/Mothers' Rights: The Shaping of America's Child Care Policy
Why is the United States one of the few advanced democratic market societies that do not offer child care as a universal public benefit or entitlement? This book--a comprehensive history of child care policy and practices in the United States from the colonial period to the present--shows why the current child care system evolved as it has and places its history within a broad comparative context. Drawing on a full range of archival material, Son…
Investigating People’s Rapport Building and Hindering Behaviors When Working with a Collaborative Robot
Modern industrial robots are increasingly moving toward collaborating with people on complex tasks as team members, and away from working in isolated cages that are separated from people. Collaborative robots are programmed to use social communication techniques with people, enabling human team members to use their existing inter-personal skills to work with robots, such as speech, gestures, or gaze. Research is increasingly investigating how rob…
Caring about care: Reasserting care as integral to early childhood education and care practice, politics and policies in Canada
Care and education have deep historical divisions in the Canadian policy landscape: care is traditionally situated as a private, gendered, and a welfare problem, whereas education is seen as a universal public good. Since the early 2000s, the entrenched divide between private care and public education has been challenged by academic, applied and political settings mainly through human capital investment arguments. This perspective allocates scarc…
The evidence base for early childhood education and care programme investment: What we know, what we don’t know
An expanding body of research demonstrates that high quality early childhood education and care (ECEC) programmes generate positive outcomes for children; in response, policy makers in a number of countries are making significant programme investments. No research consensus, however, has emerged around the specific types of policy intervention that are most effective. Much remains to be clarified in terms of specific policy interventions that flo…
Ten Years After: Sex and Salaries at a Canadian University
This paper examines salaries at the University of Manitoba to determine whether a 1994 remedy, paid in response to a 1993 salary study that demonstrated a gap between the salaries of males and females, has eliminated these differences. We use 1993 and 2003 data to approximate the earlier analysis, and apply a Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition to examine the evolution in the wage gap between time periods. Our results indicate that the gap remains large…
Teaching Family? Care/Work Policy in Selected Family Courses in Canada’s Research-Intensive Universities
To what degree is explicit care/work policy taught in family courses in Canada’s leading research-intensive universities? We analyze family courses in sociology departments and in political studies and women’s/gender studies programs in Canada’s 15 R1 universities to make a contribution to the scholarship of teaching and learning. This national scan marks a methodological innovation from curriculum studies that generally adopt a single-program or…
O Desafio Do Atendimento À Criança Rural No Canadá
No Canadá, o atendimento à infância é pouco desenvolvido, apesar de o país ser uma federação rica. Ao contrário de muitas políticas sociais bem desenvolvidas, os serviços de atendimento à infância são principalmente ofertados por meio de mercados voluntários, comerciais ou sem fins lucrativos, em vez de iniciativas governamentais. Essa estrutura política desfavorece todas as crianças e famílias e tem consequências severas, particularmente para ca…
Early childhood education and care reform in Canadian provinces: Understanding the role of experts and evidence in policy change
In over half of Canada's provinces, a recent commission has recommended major reform of ECEC systems; in response, provincial governments in nearly all cases have chosen to implement full‐day kindergarten funded by the province and delivered through public schools. We analyze the commission processes that led to changes to investigate the relationship between experts, policy makers, and policy outcomes. Our analysis of processes in BC, Alberta, O…
Beg, Borrow or Buy: Developing a Chinese Periodical Collection at the Australian National University
Workers, Mothers, Reds: Toronto’s Postwar Daycare Fight
The 'common-sense' history of organized feminism in Canada assumes a black hole of inactivity in the long stretch of decades between the early suffragettes and the recent 'second wave.' Yet a closer reading of history reveals a continuous struggle by and for Canadian women to improve their economic, political and social condition
Pushing the frontiers of the internet in a cooperative Chinese database
This paper describes the history, development and features of a cooperative project between the Australian National University Library and the National Library of China to create a searchable database of tables of contents of selected Chinese serials accessible via the Internet. Utilising the National Library of China's rich collections and the Australian National University Library's technological expertise, the database will provide access to s…
“Less, Worse and More Expensive: Childcare in an Era of Deficit Reduction”
Despite the enormous need of children, mothers, families and employers for childcare, its provision is worsening in Canada in the 1990s. Although more is known about the positive impacts of high quality early childhood care and education on child development than ever before, few children have access to high quality early childhood care. Although women's increasing participation in paid work means there is a greater need for non-family care, chil…
The Conceptual Politics of Chilly Climate Controversies
Across Canadian campuses, ‘chilly climate’ reports are produced by feminists and other equity-seekers, and are opposed by those who dispute both the diagnosis and the prescription for action contained in them. This article explores the conceptual debate which underlies chilly climate clashes, examining the contested meaning and practice of equality, responsibility, and the proving and remedying of discrimination. An analysis of the discursive deb…
Children's Interest/Mothers' Rights: The Shaping of America's Child Care Policy
Why is the United States one of the few advanced democratic market societies that do not offer child care as a universal public benefit or entitlement? This book--a comprehensive history of child care policy and practices in the United States from the colonial period to the present--shows why the current child care system evolved as it has and places its history within a broad comparative context. Drawing on a full range of archival material, Son…
Manitoba's Childcare Regime: Social Liberalism in Flux
This article assesses the "social liberalism" of Manitoba's childcare system, drawing on welfare state regime theory. Childcare in Manitoba is characterized by more social solidarity than in other English provinces. Longstanding design features have created a distinctly progressive Manitoba tradition in childcare, in place since the establishment of provincially regulated childcare. Recently, under the NDP, restructuring has occurred in childcare…
Manitoba's Childcare Regime: Social Liberalism in Flux
Susan Prentice, Manitoba's Childcare Regime: Social Liberalism in Flux, The Canadian Journal of Sociology / Cahiers canadiens de sociologie, Vol. 29, No. 2, Special Issue on Social Policy: Canadian and International Perspectives (Spring, 2004), pp. 193-207
Changing Child Care: Five Decades of Child Care Advocacy and Policy in Canada
High Stakes: The 'Investable' Child and the Economic Reframing of Childcare
Ten Years After: Sex and Salaries at a Canadian University
This paper examines salaries at the University of Manitoba to determine whether a 1994 remedy, paid in response to a 1993 salary study that demonstrated a gap between the salaries of males and females, has eliminated these differences. We use 1993 and 2003 data to approximate the earlier analysis, and apply a Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition to examine the evolution in the wage gap between time periods. Our results indicate that the gap remains large…
Regional Economic Development and Child Care: Toward Social Rights
Economic arguments are now at the center of child care policy discussions in the United States and Canada. We review the main economic logics applied to child care, namely long-term studies of child development on school readiness and future workforce, and short-term analyses of impacts on the regional economy. We analyze a sample of economic development–focused child care studies to demonstrate how they draw on a new discursive frame, authorize …
The evidence base for early childhood education and care programme investment: What we know, what we don’t know
An expanding body of research demonstrates that high quality early childhood education and care (ECEC) programmes generate positive outcomes for children; in response, policy makers in a number of countries are making significant programme investments. No research consensus, however, has emerged around the specific types of policy intervention that are most effective. Much remains to be clarified in terms of specific policy interventions that flo…
Early childhood education and care reform in Canadian provinces: Understanding the role of experts and evidence in policy change
In over half of Canada's provinces, a recent commission has recommended major reform of ECEC systems; in response, provincial governments in nearly all cases have chosen to implement full‐day kindergarten funded by the province and delivered through public schools. We analyze the commission processes that led to changes to investigate the relationship between experts, policy makers, and policy outcomes. Our analysis of processes in BC, Alberta, O…
Caring about care: Reasserting care as integral to early childhood education and care practice, politics and policies in Canada
Care and education have deep historical divisions in the Canadian policy landscape: care is traditionally situated as a private, gendered, and a welfare problem, whereas education is seen as a universal public good. Since the early 2000s, the entrenched divide between private care and public education has been challenged by academic, applied and political settings mainly through human capital investment arguments. This perspective allocates scarc…
Investigating People’s Rapport Building and Hindering Behaviors When Working with a Collaborative Robot
Modern industrial robots are increasingly moving toward collaborating with people on complex tasks as team members, and away from working in isolated cages that are separated from people. Collaborative robots are programmed to use social communication techniques with people, enabling human team members to use their existing inter-personal skills to work with robots, such as speech, gestures, or gaze. Research is increasingly investigating how rob…
O Desafio Do Atendimento À Criança Rural No Canadá
No Canadá, o atendimento à infância é pouco desenvolvido, apesar de o país ser uma federação rica. Ao contrário de muitas políticas sociais bem desenvolvidas, os serviços de atendimento à infância são principalmente ofertados por meio de mercados voluntários, comerciais ou sem fins lucrativos, em vez de iniciativas governamentais. Essa estrutura política desfavorece todas as crianças e famílias e tem consequências severas, particularmente para ca…
Childcare deserts and distributional disadvantages: The legacies of split childcare policies and programmes in Canada
Early childhood education and care (ECEC) policies and services in Canada exhibit marked gaps in access, creating ‘childcare deserts’ and distributional disadvantages. Cognate family policies that support children and families, such as parental leave and child benefits, are also underdeveloped. This article examines the current state of ECEC services in Canada and the reasons behind the uncoordinated array of services and policy, namely, a libera…
Who cares for carers? How discursive constructions of care work marginalized early childhood educators in Ontario’s 2018 provincial election
In the Canadian province of Ontario, the early childhood education and care workforce continues to be undervalued, underpaid and burdened with challenging working conditions. Drawing on Fairclough and Lazar, this study employed a feminist critical discourse analysis to explore the discourses of care work present in the 2018 childcare platforms of three major parties: the Liberal Party, the New Democratic Party and the Progressive Conservative Par…
Early Childhood Education in Canada During a Pandemic
In Fall 2020, we circulated a call for papers for a special issue, "COVID and Beyond: Reconfiguring Early Childhood Education in Canada for the 21 st Century. " In seeking submissions, we noticed that the COVID virus had thrown the issue of childcare, as well as the fragility of the early childhood education system, into sharp relief. We sought theoretical and/or empirical papers that reflected on the current moment and imagined a reconfigured fu…
Face to Face with a Sexist Robot: Investigating How Women React to Sexist Robot Behaviors
Please help us: Canadian childcare providers’ calls for aid during the Covid-19 pandemic
COVID-19 poses serious challenges to the health and safety of childcare providers, and these challenges were particularly acute in early 2022 during the first Omicron wave when vaccines were not available for children. Childcare providers work in environments where the recommended methods to minimize COVID-19 infection were often not possible to implement: children could not wear masks for extended periods and were not able to maintain physical d…
I'm kind of in a dilemma: The Challenges of Non-Standard Work Schedules and Childcare
Canada has long been criticized for its patchwork of childcare policies and programmes. In this context, parents who work non-standard hours face additional challenges finding, affording, and maintaining stable childcare. Drawing on a purposive sample of twenty Canadian parents of young children who have non-standard work schedules, we explore the challenges these parents face, the strategies they use, and the impacts of current childcare policie…
Teaching Family? Care/Work Policy in Selected Family Courses in Canada’s Research-Intensive Universities
To what degree is explicit care/work policy taught in family courses in Canada’s leading research-intensive universities? We analyze family courses in sociology departments and in political studies and women’s/gender studies programs in Canada’s 15 R1 universities to make a contribution to the scholarship of teaching and learning. This national scan marks a methodological innovation from curriculum studies that generally adopt a single-program or…
Political science (20 works) · Sociology (15 works) · Law (10 works) · Psychology (10 works) · Politics (9 works) · Medicine (8 works) · Economics (7 works) · Nursing (7 works) · Public Administration (7 works) · Early childhood education (6 works)