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Challenges for early childhood education and care across Europe
| Bennett, John In: Sachverständigenkommission 14. Kinder- und Jugendbericht (Hrsg.) (2013): Challenges for early childhood education and care across Europe. Deutsches Jugendinstitut Download[1] | |
| Its main focus is to examine early childhood access and quality issues in Germany as compared with other selected European countries – in principle but not exclusively: France, Italy, Norway, Sweden, the United Kingdom and other EU countries. The main sources of information for the paper are the European Com-mission and the Education, Audiovisual and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA); the EUROSTAT data base and its country profiles; the OECD, in particular its Child and Family data base; the Starting Strong volumes I and II and information on Starting Strong III on the OECD education website; Education at a Glance, PISA, and other data bases in the organisation dealing with human services; profiles of selected European countries prepared by Moss and Bennett (2010), Oberhuemer et al. (2010) and a wide selection of articles and reports on ECEC in Germany. Certain themes emerged from these rich sources, in particular: - Public and private responsibilities for the care, upbringing and education of young children, including strategies of welfare production between state, market, third sector and households; - Issues of ECEC governance, funding and access, in particular, the access of disadvantaged children; - Prevailing philosophies of child welfare and family and their impact on achieving important externalities such as the labour market participation of women; - The reconciliation of work with family responsibilities but within a context of greater gender equality. | |