Policies of Childcare and Early Childhood Education

Edited by Katja Repo, Tampere Centre for Childhood, Youth and Family Research, Tampere University, Maarit Alasuutari, Professor, University of Jyväskylä, Kirsti Karila, Professor, Tampere University and Johanna Lammi-Taskula, Research Manager, Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare, Helsinki, Finland

• Contents:1 Introduction 1Katja Repo, Maarit Alasuutari, Kirsti Karila and Johanna Lammi-Taskula2 Governable spaces of early childhood education and care: the Canadian case 6Rianne Mahon3 For all, for free! Why do parents have to pay for early childhood education but not for primary education? 22Jorma Sipilä4 The paradox of universal access: alleviating or perpetuating inequity for children in New South Wales, Australia 40Zsuzsa Millei and Jannelle Gallagher5 The long-term effects of full-time childcare on family lives in Japan 60Takayuki Sasaki6 Childcare, education, protection and prevention: the transformation of early childhood policies in Germany since 2000 73Helga Kelle and Johanna Mierendorff7 Parents as objects of interventions: what they have to say about early childhood education and schoolification 92Michel Vandenbroeck and Katrien Van Laere8 Early childhood education and care in times of transition: the role of policy reforms and advocacy processes in improving the accessibility of services for young children and their families 108Arianna Lazzari and Lucia Balduzzi9 Home care and early childhood education in Finland: policies and practices of childcare 133Johanna Närvi, Minna Salmi and Johanna Lammi-Taskula10 Rationalizing early childhood education and care in the local context: a case study of Finnish municipalities 152Petteri Eerola, Maarit Alasuutari, Kirsti Karila, Anu Kuukka and Anna Siippainen11 Epilogue: contradictory equal access 172Maarit Alasuutari, Kirsti Karila, Johanna Lammi-Taskula and Katja RepoIndex 177