Child Care and Preschool Development in Europe: Institutional Perspectives

Introduction; K.Scheiwe& H.Willekens Public Child Care in Europe: Historical Trajectories and New Directions; T.Bahle How and Why Belgium Became a Pioneer of Preschool Development; H.Willekens Public Child Care and Preschools in France: New Policy Paradigm and Path Dependency; C.Martin & B.Le Bihan Child Care in Spain After 1975: The Educational Rationale, the Catholic Church, and Women in Civil Society; C.Valiente The Paradox of Public Preschools in a Familist Welfare Regime: The Italian Case; E.Hohnerlein Public and Private: The History of Early Education and Care Institutions in the UK; H.Penn Danish Child-Care Policies within Path-Timing, Sequence, Actors and Opportunity Structures; A.Borchorst Child Care as an Issue of Equality and Equity: The Example of the Nordic Countries; P.Rauhala The Politics of (De)centralisation: Early Care and Education in France and Sweden; M.Neuman Slow Motion: Institutional Factors as Obstacles to the Expansion of Early Childhood Education in the FRG; K.Scheiwe Private Family and Institutionalised Public Care for Young Children in Germany and the U.S., 1857-1933; M.Baader Maternalism and Truncated Professionalism: Historical Perspectives on Kindergarten Teachers; U.Rabe-Kleberg Money Matters: Experiments in Financing Public Child Care; M.Schuler-Harms Basic Legal Principles of Public Responsibility for Children; I.Richter