The modern child and the flexible labour market
Subtitle: early childhood education and care
By: edited by Anne-Trine Kjorholt, Jens Qvortrup
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Houndmills, Basingstoke Hampshire; New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780230579323
Subjects: Government policy; Family policy; Early childhood education; Child care; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Children's Studies; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Social Work; Labor market; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Services
Description: "This book sheds light on new research related to welfare state, child care policies, and small children's everyday lives in instuitutions in a variety of countries. In uniting recent social childhood research, welfare perspectives and historical and comparative approaches, the book explores institutionalization as a feature of modern child life"--
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note:; title: PART I: Introduction; A.T. Kjrholt * PART II: The Labour Market and Institutionalisation of the Modern Childhood: A Historical and Comparative Perspective; title: Labour Market and Particular Care Arrangement for Small Children in Norway, Sweden and West Germany after 1945; T. Korsvold * Labour Market and Particular Care Arrangement for Small Children: Free Choice or Gentle Force? How can Parental Leave Change Gender Practices?; B. Brandth &; title: E. Kvande * Child Care Policies in Nordic Countries: Parents, Children and Politics in Iceland and Norway; G.B. Eydal * Flexible Flexibility: For Whom and What for?; M. Rantalaiho *; title: PART III: Flexible Spaces, Flexible Children? Contemporary Policy and Practice * 'Child-centredness' and 'The Child': The Cultural Politics of Nursery Schooling in England; A. James * Policies of Early Childhood Education and Care: Partnership, Individualisation and 'Guided Spontaneity'; H. Strandell * Children's Sense of Place in a Preschool Context; G. Hallden *; title: Flexible Spaces in 'The Nature': Transcending the 'Fenced' Childhood in Day Care Centres?; R.D. Nilsen * The Kindergarten as a Bazaar: Freedom of Choice and Social Life Among Children; A.T. Kjrholt &; title: M. Seland * Kindergartens in Denmark: Reflections on Continuity and Change; E. Gullv; title: * Caringscapes of the Flexible Labour Market: Modern Day Care and Creative Knowledge Workers; B. Johansen * PART IV: Conclusion - Institutionalisation: A Secular Trend; J. Qvortrup.