This book explains the differences between European countries in the supply and forms of public child care and preschool provisions by reference to the historical context in which these forms originated and to the institutional constraints underlying their development.

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Introduction: Path-dependencies and Change in Child-care and Preschool Institutions in Europe – Historical and Institutional Perspectives
1 Public Child Care in Europe: Historical Trajectories and New Directions
2 How and Why Belgium Became a Pioneer of Preschool Development
3 Public Child Care and Preschools in France: New Policy Paradigm and Path-dependency
4 Child Care in Spain after 1975: the Educational Rationale, the Catholic Church, and Women in Civil Society
5 The Paradox of Public Preschools in a Familist Welfare Regime: the Italian Case
6 Public and Private: the History of Early Education and Care Institutions in the United Kingdom
7 Danish Child-Care Policies within Path – Timing, Sequence, Actors and Opportunity Structures
8 Child Care as an Issue of Equality and Equity: The Example of the Nordic Countries
9 The Politics of (De)centralisation: Early Care and Education in France and Sweden
10 Slow Motion – Institutional Factors as Obstacles to the Expansion of Early Childhood Education in the FRG
11 Private Family and Institutionalised Public Care for Young Children in Germany and the United States, 1857–1933: An Analysis of Pedagogical Discourses
12 Maternalism and Truncated Professionalism – Historical Perspectives on Kindergarten Teachers
13 Money Matters – Experiments in Financing Public Child Care
14 Basic Legal Principles of Public Responsibility for Children
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