| Description |
1 online resource (xi, 249 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Public child care in Europe: historical trajectories and new directions / Thomas Bahle -- How and why Belgium became a pioneer of preschool development / Harry Willekens -- Public child care and preschools in France: new policy paradigm and path-dependency / Claude Martin and Blanche Le Bihan -- Child care in Spain after 1975: the educational rationale, the Catholic Church, and women in civil society / Celia Valiente -- The paradox of public preschools in a familist welfare regime: the Italian case / Eva Maria Hognerlein -- Public and private: the history of early education and care institutions in the United Kingdom / Helen Penn -- Danish child-care policies within path-timing, sequence, actors and opportunity structures / Anette Borchorst -- Child care as an issue of equality and equity: the example of the Nordic countries / Pirkko-Liisa Rauhala -- The politics of (de)centralisation: early care and education in France and Sweden / Michelle J. Neuman -- Slow-motion-institutional factors as obstacles to the expansion of early childhood education in the FRG / Kristen Scheiwe -- Private family and institutionalised public care for young children in German and the United States, 1857-1933: an analysis of pedagogical discourses / Meike Sophia Baader -- Maternalism and truncated professionalism-historical perspectives on kindergarten teachers / Ursula Rabe-Kleberg -- Money matters-experiments in financing public child care / Margarete Schuler-Harms -- Basic legal principles of public responsibility for children / Ingo Richter |
| Summary |
With numbers of women in the workforce increasing, public provision for care for children below school age has becoming a pressing policy issue. & nbsp; Countries across Europe differ radically in their approach to childcare and two different approaches compete with each other: one focuses on facilitating women's paid work and involvement in the workforce, the other focuses on the educational needs of young children. In this book the differences of approach across Europe are explored from comparative, historical and institutional perspectives. The historical development of child care systems is shown to be fundamental to the forms they take today, and vital in determining how reform can occur. Early childhood education is a key subject in terms of pedagogical concerns, but the development of childcare or preschool institutions has hardly ever been investigated using the approach used in this book. Focusing on an analysis of factors helping or hindering the development of preschool institutions in different countries, and on comparing path dependencies, and events that disrupt these accepted norms, this book sets out key policymaking issues in this field |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
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Child care -- Europe
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Nursery schools -- Europe
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Early childhood education -- Europe
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Child welfare.
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Pre-school & kindergarten.
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Age groups: children.
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Laws of Specific jurisdictions.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Social Services & Welfare.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Social Security.
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Society.
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Child care
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Early childhood education
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Nursery schools
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Society.
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Europe
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Scheiwe, Kirsten.
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Willekens, Harry.
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| ISBN |
9780230232778 |
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0230232779 |
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