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Early Childhood and Compulsory Education
Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 42.95What should be the relationship between early childhood and compulsory education? What can they learn from one another and by working together? The rapid expansion of early childhood education and care means that most children in affluent countries now have several years at pre-school before compulsory education. This raises an important question... more...
Ethics and Politics in Early Childhood Education
Taylor and Francis 2004; US$ 44.95The early childhood services of Reggio Emilia in Northern Italy has gained worldwide interest and admiration. Drawing on the ?Reggio approach?, and others, this book explores the ethical and political dimensions of early childhood services and argues the importance of these dimensions at a time when they are often reduced to technical and managerial... more...
From Children's Services to Children's Spaces
Taylor and Francis 2002; US$ 53.95More than ever before, children are apparently being recognised as social actors and citizens. Yet public policy often involves increased control and surveillance of children. This book explores the contradiction. It shows how different ways of thinking about children produce different childhoods, different public provisions for children (including... more...
Care Work in Europe
Taylor and Francis 2007; US$ 47.95Care Work in Europe provides a cross-national and cross-sectoral study of care work in Europe today, covering policy, provision and practice, as well as exploring how care work is conceptualized and understood. Drawing on a study which looks at care work across the life course in a number of European countries, this book: explores the context... more...
The Politics of Parental Leave Policies
The Policy Press 2009; US$ 99.00The politics of parental leave policies addresses how and why, and by whom, particular policies are created and subsequently developed in particular countries. It examines the factors that bring about variations in leave policy, covering fifteen countries in Europe and beyond, and the European Union. more...
Radical Education and the Common School
Taylor and Francis 2010; US$ 41.95What is education, what is it for and what are its fundamental values? How do we understand knowledge and learning? What is our image of the child and the school? How does the ever more pressing need to develop a more just, creative and sustainable democratic society affect our responses to these questions? Addressing these fundamental issues, Fielding... more...
Spaces to Play
National Children's Bureau 2005; US$ 19.50The ground-breaking mosaic approach is used to explore with young children their understandings and uses of outdoor provision more...
Every Child Matters and the Concept of Education
Institute of Education Press 2012; US$ 9.95This publication aims to stimulate discussion about how the Every Child Matters agenda relates to the concept of education. more...
Beyond Quality in Early Childhood Education and Care
Taylor and Francis 1999; US$ 39.95This book challenges received wisdom and the tendency to reduce philosophical issues of value to purely technical issues of measurement and management. more...
Beyond Quality in Early Childhood Education and Care
Taylor and Francis 2006; US$ 51.95Taking a broad approach, this second edition of Beyond Quality in Early Childhood Education and Care relates issues of early childhood to the sociology of childhood, philosophy, ethics, political science and other fields and to an analysis of the world we live in today. It places these issues in a global context and draws on work from Canada, Sweden... more...









