1. European research on preschool education and care

   • Edward C. Melhuish

   BriefCommunication Pages: 115 - 117

2. New educational provision for young children in Italy

   • Susanna Mantovani
   • Tullia Musatti

   OriginalPaper Pages: 119 - 128

3. The Norwegian perspective on issues of quality in day care

   • Anne I. H. Borge
   • Ellen Hartmann
   • Steinar Strøm

   OriginalPaper Pages: 129 - 137

4. Education under five in Spain: A study of preschool classes in Seville

   • María-José Lera

   OriginalPaper Pages: 139 - 150

5. Two measures of the quality of group care for infants and toddlers

   • Emanuel Kuno Beller
   • Marita Stahnke
   • Holger Wessels

   OriginalPaper Pages: 151 - 167

6. On the ecological validity of measuring the sensitivity of professional caregivers: The laboratory versus the nursery

   • Frits Goossens
   • Edward C. Melhuish

   OriginalPaper Pages: 169 - 176

7. Aspects of quality in Greek day care centres

   • Konstantinos Petrogiannis
   • Edward C. Melhuish

   OriginalPaper Pages: 177 - 191

8. The relationship between infant day care and socio-emotional development with French children aged 3–4 years

   • Geneviève Balleyguier
   • Edward C. Melhuish

   OriginalPaper Pages: 193 - 199

9. Child care in the preschool years: Attachment, behaviour problems and cognitive development

   • Blaise Pierrehumbert
   • Tatjana Ramstein
   • Olivier Halfon

   OriginalPaper Pages: 201 - 214

10. Sensitive periods in the development of attachment and the age of entry into day care

    • Dario Varin
    • Cristina Riva Crugnola
    • Chiara Ripamonti

    OriginalPaper Pages: 215 - 229

11. Cause and causality in daycare research: An investigation of group differences in Swedish child care

    • Holger Wessels
    • Michael E. Lamb
    • Carl-Philip Hwang

    OriginalPaper Pages: 231 - 245