Abstract
Since the 1970s, there has been a growing interest in the comparative study of what today is most often referred to as “early childhood education and care” (ECEC), services providing non-parental care and education for children under compulsory school age; these services include nurseries, nursery schools, kindergartens, various types of “age-integrated” centres for children under and over 3 years, and family day care provided by home-based workers. Some of this work has been initiated by academics, interested in better understanding political, social and cultural differences in policy, provision and practice; it is here that Al Kahn and Sheila Kamerman have played a leading role (I first met them in the 1970s, as a junior researcher knowing nothing of ECEC beyond my own shores, when they called on me in London during one of their regular swings through Europe to keep themselves informed about policies).
This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.
Access this chapter
Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout
Purchases are for personal use only
Preview
Unable to display preview. Download preview PDF.
References
Bennett, J. (2006, 10 May). ‘Schoolifying’ early childhood education and care: Accompanying pre-school into education. Public lecture given at the Institute of Education University of London.
Broadhead, P., Meleady, C., & Delgado, M. A. (2008). Children, families and communities: Creating and sustaining integrated services. Maidenhead: Open University Press.
Children in Europe. (2008). Young children and their services: Developing a European approach. Children in Europe Policy Paper. http://www.childrenineurope.org/docs/PolicyDocument_001.pdf. Accessed 5 December 2008.
Dahlberg, G., Moss, P., & Pence, A. (2007). Beyond quality in early childhood education and care: Languages of evaluation (2nd ed.). London: Routledge.
European Commission. (2008). Childcare services in the EU (Memo/08/592, Brussels, 3 October 2008). http://europa.eu/rapid/pressReleasesAction.do?reference=MEMO/08/592&type=HTML. Accessed 5 December 2008.
Flyvbjerg, B. (2001). Making social science matter: Why social inquiry fails and how it can succeed again. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Kahn, A. J., & Kamerman, S. B. (1976). Child care programs in nine countries: A report prepared for the OECD working party on the role of women in the economy. Paris: Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development.
Kamerman, S., & Moss, P. (forthcoming, 2009). The politics of parental leave policies: Children, parenting, gender and the labour market. Bristol: Policy Press.
Lather, P. (2006). Foucauldian scientificity: Rethinking the nexus of qualitative research and educational policy analysis. International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education, 19(6), 783–791.
Lorenz, W. (1999). The ECSPRESS approach – Guiding the social professions between national and global perspectives. In O. Chytil & F. W. Seibel (Eds.), European dimensions in training and practice of social professions (pp.13–28). Boskovice: Verlag Albert.
Mahon, R. (2009). The OECD’s discourse on the reconciliation of work and family life. Global Social Policy, 9(2): 183–204 .
Moss, P. (2007). Bringing politics into the nursery: Early childhood education as a democratic practice. European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, 15(1), 5–20.
Moss, P., & Petrie, P. (2002). From children’s services to children’s spaces: Public policy, children and childhood. London: Routledge.
OECD (Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development). (2001). Starting strong I: Early childhood education and care. Paris: Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development.
OECD (Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development). (2006). Starting strong II: Early childhood education and care. Paris: Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development.
OECD (Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development). (2007). Babies and bosses: reconciling work and family life. Paris: Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development.
Petrie, P., Boddy, J., Cameron, C., Wigfall, V., & Simon, A. (2006). Working with children in care: European perspectives. Maidenhead: Open University Press.
Rinaldi, C. (2005). In dialogue with Reggio Emilia: Listening, researching and learning. London: Routledge.
Rose, N. (1999). Powers of freedom: Reframing political thought. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Swedish Ministry of Education and Science. (1998). Curriculum for preschool (English translation). Stockholm: Swedish Ministry of Education and Science.
Tobin, J., Wu, D., & Davidson, D. (1989). Preschool in three cultures: Japan, China and the United States. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press.
Unger, R. (2005). What should the left propose? London: Verso.
UNICEF. (2008). The child care transition: A league table of early childhood education and care in economically advanced countries (Innocenti Report Card 8). Florence: UNICEF Innocenti Research Centre.
Wagner, J. T. (2006). An outsider’s perspective: Childhoods and early education in the Nordic countries. In J. Einarsdottir & J. T. Wagner (Eds.), Nordic childhoods and early education: Philosophy, research, policy and practice in Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden (pp.289–306). Greenwich, CT: Information Age Publishing.
Woodhead, M. (2007). Early childhood and primary education. In M. Woodhead & P. Moss (Eds.), Early childhood and primary education: Transitions in the lives of young children (Early childhood in focus 2, p.8). Milton Keynes: Open University.
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Corresponding author
Editor information
Editors and Affiliations
Rights and permissions
Copyright information
© 2010 Springer Science+Business Media B.V.
About this chapter
Cite this chapter
Moss, P. (2010). Early Childhood Education and Care. In: Kamerman, S.B., Phipps, S., Ben-Arieh, A. (eds) From Child Welfare to Child Well-Being. Children’s Well-Being: Indicators and Research, vol 1. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-3377-2_20
Download citation
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-3377-2_20
Publisher Name: Springer, Dordrecht
Print ISBN: 978-90-481-3376-5
Online ISBN: 978-90-481-3377-2
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and LawSocial Sciences (R0)