Child Care and Preschool Development in Europe (eBook)

Institutional Perspectives

K. Scheiwe, H. Willekens (Herausgeber)

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2009 | 2009
XI, 249 Seiten
Palgrave Macmillan UK (Verlag)
978-0-230-23277-8 (ISBN)

Infos

This book explains the differences between European countries in the supply and forms of public child care and preschool provisions by reference to the historical context in which these forms originated and to the institutional constraints underlying their development.

MEIKE SOPHIA BAADER is Professor at the Pedagogical Institute of the University of Hildesheim, Germany, and a member of the Board of the Early Childhood Excellence Centre THOMAS BAHLE teaches Sociology at the University of Mannheim, Germany. At the time of writing his contribution for this book he was Marshall Fellow at the London School of Economics ANETTE BORCHORST is Associate Professor at the Department of History, International and Social Studies, Aalborg University, Denmark EVA MARIA HOHNERLEIN is Senior Researcher at the Max-Planck-Institute for Foreign and Comparative International Law in Munich, Germany BLANCHE LE BIHAN is Researcher at the Laboratory for the Analysis of Social and Health Policies at the School of Studies in Public Health at Rennes, France CLAUDE MARTIN is Senior Researcher at the Centre National de Recherche Scientifique at the University of Rennes, France, and Director of the Laboratory for the Analysis of Social and Health Policies of the School of Studies in Public Health MICHELLE NEUMAN is Senior Program Officer with the Open Society Institute's Early Childhood Program, USA HELEN PENN is Professor of Early Childhood at the University of East London, UK and co-director of its International Centre for the Study of the Mixed Economy of Childcare URSULA RABE-KLEBERG is Professor of Pedagogy and the Sociology of Education and Director of the Institute for Early Childhood Education and Care at the University of Halle-Wittenberg, Germany PIRKKO-LIISA RAUHALA is Reader in Social Work and Social Policy at the University of Helsinki, Finland INGO K. RICHTER is Emeritus Professor of Constitutional and Administrative Law and Honorary Professor at the University of Tübingen, Germany KIRSTEN SCHEIWE is Professor of Law at the University of Hildesheim, Germany MARGARETE SCHULER-HARMS is Professor of Public Law, especially Public Economic Law and Environmental Law at the Helmut-Schmidt-University in Hamburg, Germany CELIA VALIENTE is Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science and Sociology at Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain HARRY WILLEKENS teaches Legal Sociology at the University of Antwerp, Belgium and Law at the University of Hildesheim, Germany

Inhalt

Cover 1
Contents 6
List of Illustrations 8
Notes on Contributors 10
Introduction: Path-dependencies and Change in Child-care and Preschool Institutions in Europe – Historical and Institutional Perspectives 13
1 Public Child Care in Europe: Historical Trajectories and New Directions 35
2 How and Why Belgium Became a Pioneer of Preschool Development 55
3 Public Child Care and Preschools in France: New Policy Paradigm and Path-dependency 69
4 Child Care in Spain after 1975: the Educational Rationale, the Catholic Church, and Women in Civil Society 84
5 The Paradox of Public Preschools in a Familist Welfare Regime: the Italian Case 100
6 Public and Private: the History of Early Education and Care Institutions in the United Kingdom 117
7 Danish Child-Care Policies within Path – Timing, Sequence, Actors and Opportunity Structures 138
8 Child Care as an Issue of Equality and Equity: The Example of the Nordic Countries 154
9 The Politics of (De)centralisation: Early Care and Education in France and Sweden 169
10 Slow Motion – Institutional Factors as Obstacles to the Expansion of Early Childhood Education in the FRG 192
11 Private Family and Institutionalised Public Care for Young Children in Germany and the United States, 1857–1933: An Analysis of Pedagogical Discourses 208
12 Maternalism and Truncated Professionalism – Historical Perspectives on Kindergarten Teachers 222
13 Money Matters – Experiments in Financing Public Child Care 234
14 Basic Legal Principles of Public Responsibility for Children 246
Index 259
A 259
B 259
C 259
D 259
E 259
F 260
G 260
H 260
I 260
J 260
L 260
M 260
N 260
P 260
R 261
S 261
T 261
U 261
V 261

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 15.1.2009
• Zusatzinfo: XI, 249 p. 6 illus.
• Verlagsort: London
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Sozialpädagogik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Vorschulpädagogik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Mikrosoziologie
• Schlagworte: Care • child care • Childhood • Childhood Education • children • early childhood • Early childhood education • Education • Institution • Kindergarten • Politics • Schule
• ISBN-10: 0-230-23277-9 / 0230232779
• ISBN-13: 978-0-230-23277-8 / 9780230232778