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 …

Policy tools have become widespread in education, which indicates efforts to standardise
content and professional practices. However, such standardisation might be in contrast to …

How parents spend time with their children, what they teach their children and how they
raise them in the early years have again become topics of policymaking and public debate …

This book presents new ethnographic research carried out with five children between one
and five years old. It explores children's agency in relation to daily transitions across …

Denmark has a long tradition of public provision of early childhood education and care
(ECEC) as part of what is known internationally as the Nordic welfare model. Both traditions …

In this article, we show how the daily collaboration between pedagogues and parents is
characterised by increasing institutionalisation of parental responsibility, and that the …

Our contribution argues for some differentiations in the recurring debates about pedagogical
tact. To this end, we will proceed in three steps. First we will refer to classical aspects of …

In this chapter, we examine how the states and municipalities govern the non-economic
aspects of the ECEC sector in the five Nordic countries. We study the use of hard …

Med afhandlingen Lege-og børnekulturer i praksis. Studier af leg, samvær og betingelser
har Fina Lewenhaupt Vilholm afrundet sit spændende og relevante forskningsprojekt og ph …

I denne artikel viser vi, hvordan det daglige samarbejde mellem pædagogisk personale og
forældre præges af stigende institutionalisering af forældreansvar, og af at arbejdsdelingen …