The Development of Early Childhood Education in Europe and North America
Historical and Comparative Perspectives
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Beschreibung
The public provision of early childhood education has developed at different rates across individual countries over the past two centuries. This book provides the historical background to explain how these national differences occurred, with particular reference to welfare and educational systems, to highlight how particular influences grew.
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Harry Willekens
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Early childhood education comparative history of early childhood education preschools nursery school day care centers kindergarten public child care infant schools institutional change State-Church conflicts over education Catholicism and early childhood education women's movement and early childhood education legal regulation of early childhood education professional training of early childhood educators early childhood education and welfare policies
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“The volume offers a panoramic view of a complex process, showing a variety of economic, social, pedagogical and sanitary goals, revealing the political tensions and struggles that took part in the reconfiguration of public and private spaces and jurisdictions towards the construction of national states.” (Beatriz Alcubierre Moya, Paedagogica Historica, April 30, 2019)
“Each chapter stands out as a helpful introduction to a particular topic in ECE and public child care, and an introductory chapter creates links between most of them. … It makes a major contribution both to the history of ECE and to the public understanding of social projects as integral instruments of social change. Moreover, it is a rich compendium of ideas that bring us a valuable synthesis of questions that have long required attention but remained untouched … .” (Yordanka Valkanova, History of Education, Vol. 46 (3), 2017)
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