Child Care and Preschool Development in Europe (PDF)

MEIKE SOPHIA BAADER is Professor at the Pedagogical Institute of the University of Hildesheim, Germany, and a member of the Board of the Early Childhood Excellence Centre
THOMAS BAHLE teaches Sociology at the University of Mannheim, Germany. At the time of writing his contribution for this book he was Marshall Fellow at the London School of Economics
ANETTE BORCHORST is Associate Professor at the Department of History, International and Social Studies, Aalborg University, Denmark
EVA MARIA HOHNERLEIN is Senior Researcher at the Max-Planck-Institute for Foreign and Comparative International Law in Munich, Germany
BLANCHE LE BIHAN is Researcher at the Laboratory for the Analysis of Social and Health Policies at the School of Studies in Public Health at Rennes, France
CLAUDE MARTIN is Senior Researcher at the Centre National de Recherche Scientifique at the University of Rennes, France, and Director of the Laboratory for the Analysis of Social and Health Policies of the School of Studies in Public Health
MICHELLE NEUMAN is Senior Program Officer with the Open Society Institute's Early Childhood Program, USA
HELEN PENN is Professor of Early Childhood at the University of East London, UK and co-director of its International Centre for the Study of the Mixed Economy of Childcare
URSULA RABE-KLEBERG is Professor of Pedagogy and the Sociology of Education and Director of the Institute for Early Childhood Education and Care at the University of Halle-Wittenberg, Germany
PIRKKO-LIISA RAUHALA is Reader in Social Work and Social Policy at the University of Helsinki, Finland
INGO K. RICHTER is Emeritus Professor of Constitutional and Administrative Law and Honorary Professor at the University of Tübingen, Germany
KIRSTEN SCHEIWE is Professor of Law at the University of Hildesheim, Germany
MARGARETE SCHULER-HARMS is Professor of Public Law, especially Public Economic Law and Environmental Law at the Helmut-Schmidt-University in Hamburg, Germany
CELIA VALIENTE

'This book is a welcome addition to the literature on Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC)...The historical perspective and the depth of analysis will extend the shelf-life considerably...Chapters are informative and useful on their own. However, reading the whole collection has great benefits...The book is an inspiration to explore these themes further against the backdrop of the useful perspectives and theoretical framework it introduces.' - Social Policy