Chapter 1 The Key Characteristics of Danish/Nordic Child Care Culture

Chapter 2 Values in Danish Early Childhood Education and Care

Chapter 3 The History of Children’s Engagements in Danish Child Care

Chapter 4 Opportunities and Challenges in Icelandic Early Childhood Education

Chapter 5 Comparative Perspectives on Early Childhood: Choices and Values

Chapter 6 The Role of Play in Danish Child Care

Chapter 7 Outdoor Education in the Nordic Region

Chapter 8 Children’s Perspectives on Their Everyday Lives in Child Care in Two Cultures: Denmark and the United States

Chapter 9 Increasing Pedagogical Attentiveness Towards Children’s Perspectives and Participation in Toddler Child Care

Chapter 10 Children and Pedagogues as Partners in Communication: Focus on Spacious and Narrow Interactional Patterns

Chapter 11 How Positive Childhood Experiences Promote Children’s Development of Democratic Skills in Denmark

Chapter 12 Re-metaphorizing Teaching and Learning in Early Childhood Education Beyond the Instruction – Social Fostering Divide

Chapter 13 Collaboration Between Child Care and Parents: Dilemmas and Contradictory Condititions in the Institutional Arrangement of Child Care

Chapter 14 The Professional Identity of the Danish Pedagogue: Historical Root in an Education with Focus on Democracy, Creativity, Dannelse and a ‘Childhood Logic’

Chapter 15 Leading Pedagogical Quality in the Context of Finnish Child Care