Progress, Change and Development in Early Childhood Education and Care : International Perspectives (Paperback)

Introduction: International Perspectives on Progress, Change and Development in Early Childhood Education and Care, 1993 to 2013 Elizabeth A. Coates and Dorothy Faulkner

1. A participatory process of developing a recommendation for the government about the education of children from birth to three years: the case of Portugal Teresa Vasconcelos

2. A review and analysis of the current policy on early childhood education in mainland China Yan Liu and Yue-Juan Pan

3. Early childhood development in South Africa ? progress since the end of apartheid Eric Atmore

4. Trends and tensions: Australian and international research about starting school Sue Dockett and Bob Perry

5. Educational innovation between freedom and fixation: the cultural-political construction of innovations in early childhood education in the Netherlands Bert van Oers

6. Promoting critical awareness in the initial training of preschool teachers in Greece: resistance and perspectives Evangelia Kourti and Alexandra Androussou

7. Preschool a source for young children’s learning and well-being Sonja Sheridan and Ingrid Pramling Samuelsson

8. Mothers’ experiences with a mother-child education programme in five countries Sevda Bekman and Aylin Atmaca Kocak

9. Early childhood policy and practice in England: twenty years of change Dorothy Faulkner and Elizabeth A. Coates