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OverviewThis 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. Full Product DetailsAuthor: A. Kjørholt , J. QvortrupPublisher: Palgrave Macmillan Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan Edition: 1st ed. 2012 Weight: 0.394kg ISBN: 9781349367962ISBN 10: 1349367966 Pages: 292 Publication Date: 01 January 2012 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand  We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of ContentsThe Modern Child and the Flexible Labour Market: An Intorduction; A.T.Kjørholt PART I:THE LABOUR MARKET AND INSTITUTIONALISATION OF THE MODERN CHILDHOOD: A HISTORICAL AND COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVE Dilemmas over Childcare inNorway, Sweden and West Germany after 1945; T.Korsvold Child Care Policies at a Crossroads: The Case of Iceland; G.B.Eydal Free Choice or Gentle Force? How can Parental Leave Change Gender Practices?; B.Brandth & E.Kvande 'Flexible Flexibility': Norwegian Politics of Daycar; M.Rantalaiho Kindergartens in Denmark - Reflections on Continuity and Change; E.Gulløv PART II: FLEXIBLE SPACES, FLEXIBLE CHILDREN? CONTEMPORARY POLICY AND PRACTICE 'Child-Centredness' and 'The Child': The Cultural Politics of Nursery Schooling in England; A.James Governed Markets and Democratic Experimentalism: Two Possibilites for Early Childhood Education and Care; P. Moss Daycare, Flexible Workers and the Combination of Work and Childcare; B.Johansen The Kindergarten as a Bazaar: Freedom of Choice and New Forms of Regulation; A.T.Kjørholt & M.Seland Children's Sense of Place: Aspects of Individualization, Flexibility and Free Choice within Preschool COtnext; G.Hallden Flexible Spaces - Flexible subjects in 'Nature': Transcending the 'Fenced' Childhood in Day Care Centres?; R.D.Nilsen Policies of Early Childhood Education and Care: Partnership, Individualisation; H.Strandell PART III: CONCLUDING THOUGHTS Users and Interested Parties: A Concluding Essay on Children's Insitutionalization; J. Qvortrup Childhood and Social Investments: Concluding Thoughts; A.T.Kjørholt and J.Qvortrup IndexReviewsAuthor InformationBERIT BRANDTH Professor of Sociology at the Department of Sociology and Political Science, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, NTNU, Trondheim, Norway GUðNÝ BJÖRK EYDAL Associate Professor at the Faculty of Social Work, University of Iceland, Iceland EVA GULLOV Associate Professor at the School of Education, University of Aarhus, Denmark GUNILLA HALDÉN Professor in Child Studies at Linköping University, Sweden ALLISON JAMES Professor of Sociology and Director of the Centre for the Study of Childhood & Youth at the University of Sheffield, UK BIRGITTE JOHANSEN PhD student at the Norwegian Centre for Child Research, NTNU, Norway TORA KORSVOLD Senior Research Fellow at the Norwegian Centre for Child Research, NTNU, Norway ELIN KVANDE Professor of Sociology at the Department of Sociology and Political Science, NTNU, Norway PETER MOSS Professor at Thomas Coram Research Unit, Institute of Education, University of London, UK RANDI DYBLIE NILSEN Professor at the Norwegian Centre for Child Research, NTNU, Norway MINNA RANTALAIHO Researcher at the Norwegian Centre for Child Research, NTNU, Norway and the Nordic Gender Institute, Finland MONICA SELAND PhD student at the Norwegian Centre for Child Research, NTNU, Norway HARRIET STRANDELL Docent and University Lecturer at the Department of Sociology, University of Helsinki, Sweden Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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