Childcare and Preschool Development in Europe: Institutional Perspectives

Contents......Page 6
List of Illustrations......Page 8
Notes on Contributors......Page 10
Introduction: Path-dependencies and Change in Child-care and Preschool Institutions in Europe – Historical and Institutional Perspectives......Page 14
1 Public Child Care in Europe: Historical Trajectories and New Directions......Page 36
2 How and Why Belgium Became a Pioneer of Preschool Development......Page 56
3 Public Child Care and Preschools in France: New Policy Paradigm and Path-dependency......Page 70
4 Child Care in Spain after 1975: the Educational Rationale, the Catholic Church, and Women in Civil Society......Page 85
5 The Paradox of Public Preschools in a Familist Welfare Regime: the Italian Case......Page 101
6 Public and Private: the History of Early Education and Care Institutions in the United Kingdom......Page 118
7 Danish Child-Care Policies within Path – Timing, Sequence, Actors and Opportunity Structures......Page 139
8 Child Care as an Issue of Equality and Equity: The Example of the Nordic Countries......Page 155
9 The Politics of (De)centralisation: Early Care and Education in France and Sweden......Page 170
10 Slow Motion – Institutional Factors as Obstacles to the Expansion of Early Childhood Education in the FRG......Page 193
11 Private Family and Institutionalised Public Care for Young Children in Germany and the United States, 1857–1933: An Analysis of Pedagogical Discourses......Page 209
12 Maternalism and Truncated Professionalism – Historical Perspectives on Kindergarten Teachers......Page 223
13 Money Matters – Experiments in Financing Public Child Care......Page 235
14 Basic Legal Principles of Public Responsibility for Children......Page 247
E......Page 260
P......Page 261
V......Page 262