Kindergarten and preschool development in Europe and North America - a historical and comparative approach to institutional change

There are considerable international differences in the timing of the historical development of kindergartens and preschools as well as in the ways such systems of public child care for the three- to six-year-olds have been conceptualised and organised. Why is this so? The theme of this conference is an analysis of the spread of kindergartens and preschools in Western Europe and the USA from an historical-institutional and comparative perspective, with the purpose of discovering commonalities and differences in paths of development and of explaining why some countries came to be pioneers and others remained laggards in this field.

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