The Modern Child and the Flexible Labour Market

Early Childhood Education and Care

  • Anne Trine Kjørholt
  • Jens Qvortrup
Book

Part of the Studies in Childhood and Youth book series (SCY)

Table of contents

  1. Front Matter
    Pages i-xiii
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  2. The Modern Child and the Flexible Labour Market: An Introduction

    1. The Modern Child and the Flexible Labour Market: An Introduction
      Anne Trine Kjørholt
      Pages 1-15

  3. The Labour Market and Institutionalization of Modern Childhood: Historical and Comparative Perspectives

    1. Front Matter
      Pages 17-17
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    2. Dilemmas over Childcare in Norway, Sweden and West Germany after 1945
      Tora Korsvold
      Pages 19-37
    3. Childcare Policies at a Crossroads
      Guðný Björk Eydal
      Pages 38-55
    4. Free Choice or Gentle Force?
      Berit Brandth, Elin Kvande
      Pages 56-70
    5. Flexible Flexibility
      Minna Rantalaiho
      Pages 71-89
    6. Kindergartens in Denmark – Reflections on Continuity and Change
      Eva Gulløv
      Pages 90-107

  4. Flexible Spaces, Flexible Children? Contemporary Policy and Practice

    1. Front Matter
      Pages 109-109
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    2. ‘Child-Centredness’ and ‘the Child’
      Allison James
      Pages 111-127
    3. Governed Markets and Democratic Experimentalism
      Peter Moss
      Pages 128-149
    4. Daycare, Flexible Workers and the Combination of Work and Childcare
      Birgitte Johansen
      Pages 150-167
    5. Kindergarten as a Bazaar
      Anne Trine Kjørholt, Monica Seland
      Pages 168-185
    6. Children’s Sense of Place
      Gunilla Halldén
      Pages 186-202
    7. Flexible Spaces – Flexible Subjects in ‘Nature’
      Randi Dyblie Nilsen
      Pages 203-221
    8. Policies of Early Childhood Education and Care
      Harriet Strandell
      Pages 222-240

  5. Concluding Thoughts

    1. Front Matter
      Pages 241-241
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    2. Users and Interested Parties
      Jens Qvortrup
      Pages 243-261
    3. Childhood and Social Investments
      Anne Trine Kjørholt, Jens Qvortrup
      Pages 262-274
  6. Back Matter
    Pages 275-292
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About this book

Introduction

This book sheds light on new research related to welfare state, child care policies, and small children's everyday lives in institutions in Europe. In uniting recent social childhood research, welfare perspectives and historical and comparative approaches, the book explores institutionalization as a feature of the modern child's life.

Keywords

child care childhood childhood education children early childhood early childhood education education kindergarten labor market Partner

Editors and affiliations

  • Anne Trine Kjørholt
    • 1
  • Jens Qvortrup
    • 1
  1. 1.Norwegian University of Science and TechnologyNorway

Bibliographic information

  • DOI https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230314054
  • Copyright Information Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2012
  • Publisher Name Palgrave Macmillan, London
  • eBook Packages Palgrave Social Sciences Collection
  • Print ISBN 978-1-349-36796-2
  • Online ISBN 978-0-230-31405-4
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