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The Modern Child and the Flexible Labour Market

Early Childhood Education and Care

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  • © 2012

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Editors:
  1. Anne Trine Kjørholt

    1. Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway

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  2. Jens Qvortrup

    1. Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway

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Part of the book series: Studies in Childhood and Youth (SCY)

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Table of contents (15 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiii
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  2. The Modern Child and the Flexible Labour Market: An Introduction

    1. The Modern Child and the Flexible Labour Market: An Introduction

      • Anne Trine Kjørholt
      Pages 1-15

  3. The Labour Market and Institutionalization of Modern Childhood: Historical and Comparative Perspectives

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 17-17
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    2. Dilemmas over Childcare in Norway, Sweden and West Germany after 1945

      • Tora Korsvold
      Pages 19-37

    3. Childcare Policies at a Crossroads

      • Guðný Björk Eydal
      Pages 38-55

    4. Free Choice or Gentle Force?

      • Berit Brandth, Elin Kvande
      Pages 56-70

    5. Flexible Flexibility

      • Minna Rantalaiho
      Pages 71-89

    6. Kindergartens in Denmark – Reflections on Continuity and Change

      • Eva Gulløv
      Pages 90-107

  4. Flexible Spaces, Flexible Children? Contemporary Policy and Practice

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 109-109
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    2. ‘Child-Centredness’ and ‘the Child’

      • Allison James
      Pages 111-127

    3. Governed Markets and Democratic Experimentalism

      • Peter Moss
      Pages 128-149

    4. Daycare, Flexible Workers and the Combination of Work and Childcare

      • Birgitte Johansen
      Pages 150-167

    5. Kindergarten as a Bazaar

      • Anne Trine Kjørholt, Monica Seland
      Pages 168-185

    6. Children’s Sense of Place

      • Gunilla Halldén
      Pages 186-202

    7. Flexible Spaces – Flexible Subjects in ‘Nature’

      • Randi Dyblie Nilsen
      Pages 203-221

    8. Policies of Early Childhood Education and Care

      • Harriet Strandell
      Pages 222-240

  5. Concluding Thoughts

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 241-241
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    2. Users and Interested Parties

      • Jens Qvortrup
      Pages 243-261

    3. Childhood and Social Investments

      • Anne Trine Kjørholt, Jens Qvortrup
      Pages 262-274

  6. Back Matter

    Pages 275-292
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About this book

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.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway

    Anne Trine Kjørholt, Jens Qvortrup

About the editors

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

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