The Development of Early Childhood Education in Europe and North America

Chapter 1 Introduction: The Longue Durée — Early Childhood Institutions and Ideas in Flux

Chapter 2 The Spread of Infant School Models in Europe during the First Half of the Nineteenth Century

Chapter 3 Religious Cleavages, the School Struggle and the Development of Early Childhood Education in Belgium, France and the Netherlands

Chapter 4 Development and Diffusion of Early Childhood Education in Italy: Reflections on the Role of the Church from a Historical Perspective (1830–2010)

Chapter 5 The Role of the State and the Church in the Development of Early Childhood Education in Spain (1874–1975)

Chapter 6 From Poverty Relief to Universal Provision: The Changing Grounds for Childcare Policy Reforms in Norway

Chapter 7 Common Traditions, Split Paths: Early Childhood Education and Care in the Federal Republic of Germany and the German Democratic Republic (1949–1990)

Chapter 8 Saving Money or Saving Children? Nursery Schools in England and the United States

Chapter 9 Towards Early Childhood Education as a Social Right: A Historical and Comparative Perspective

Chapter 10 Professional Profiles in Early Childhood Education and Care: Continuity and Change in Europe

Chapter 11 Modernizing Early Childhood Education: The Role of German Women’s Movements after 1848 and 1968

Chapter 12 Women’s Activism on Childcare in Italy and Denmark: The 1960s and 1970s

Chapter 13 Early Education and the Unloved Market of Commercial Childcare in Luxembourg

Chapter 14 Preschool, Childcare and Welfare Reform in the United States

Chapter 15 The History of Kindergarten as New Education: Examples from the United States and Canada, 1890–1920