The Modern Child and the Flexible Labour Market: Early Childhood Education and Care (Studies in Childhood and Youth) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0230579329 ISBN 13: 9780230579323

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011

Synopsis

This 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.

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BERIT 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

About this edition

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0230579329
• ISBN 13: 9780230579323
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 305
• Editor: Kjørholt A., Qvortrup J.