This article sheds light on governance mechanisms at work when decentralised
implementation of national educational and welfare policies encounters a heterogeneous …

This article analyses the privatization of Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC)
provision in Norway between 1987 and 2020. My analytical framework combines theories of …

This paper investigates the regulation of publicly organized early childhood education and
care (ECEC) in Denmark and Sweden, through the regulatory welfare state (RWS) …

In 2014, the Proposal for key principles of a Quality Framework for Early Childhood
Education and Care 1 (European Commission, 2014), hereafter referred to in this chapter as …

Privatization and marketization have been introduced in early childhood education and care
(ECEC) in many countries in the past decades. In the same time window, cultural and …

This special issue focuses on important facets of market-oriented reforms in Nordic Early
Childhood Education and Care (ECEC). It aims to promote discussion on interlinked …

This study examines policy developments throughout Europe on the issue of early childhood
education and care (ECEC). Recent EU policy developments are developed to offer a …

Norway's early childhood education and care (ECEC) system has experienced a significant
expansion during the last decade. The ECEC sector in Norway has undergone various …

This paper presents and discusses the findings of a collaborative investigation into Nordic
approaches to evaluation and assessment in early childhood education and care. The …

This article argues that Early Childhood Education & Care (ECEC) is being redesigned
based on quality reform discourse with references to global knowledge economy across the …