Early Childhood Grows Up

1. Early Childhood Grows Up: Towards a Critical Ecology of the Profession
Carmen Dalli, Linda Miller, Mathias Urban

2. Relationships, Reflexivity and Renewal: Professional Practice in Action in an Australian Children’s Centre
Christine Woodrow

3. Leading and Managing in an Early Years Setting in England
Linda Miller, Carrie Cable, Gill Goodliff

4. Acting as a Professional in a Finnish Early Childhood Education Context
Kirsti Karila, Jarmo Kinos

5. The Uncertain Expert: A Case Study from Germany
Mathias Urban

6. A Constant Juggle for Balance: A Day in the Life of a New Zealand Kindergarten Teacher
Carmen Dalli

7. Working with a Democratic Curriculum: The Swedish Case Study
Marja Kuisma, Anette Sandberg

8. Radical Reconstructions? Early Childhood Workforce Profiles in Changing European Early Childhood Education and Care Systems
Pamela Oberhuemer

9. Childcare Professionalism in Flanders: An Inside–Outside Perspective
Jan Peeters

10. A Need, a Desire, a Shared Responsibility: Professional Development for a New Public Education
Irene Balaguer Felip

11. A Profession Speaking and Thinking for Itself
Mathias Urban, Carmen Dalli

Nyckelord: Education, Childhood Education, Teaching and Teacher Education, International and Comparative Education, Professional & Vocational Education