This book sheds light on new research related to welfare state, child care policies, and small children's everyday lives in institutions in Europe. In uniting recent social childhood research, welfare perspectives and historical and comparative approaches, the book explores institutionalization as a feature of the modern child's life.
Author Biography:
BERIT BRANDTH Professor of Sociology at the Department of Sociology and Political Science, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, NTNU, Trondheim, Norway
GUðNÝ BJÖRK EYDAL Associate Professor at the Faculty of Social Work, University of Iceland, Iceland
EVA GULLOV Associate Professor at the School of Education, University of Aarhus, Denmark
GUNILLA HALDÉN Professor in Child Studies at Linköping University, Sweden
ALLISON JAMES Professor of Sociology and Director of the Centre for the Study of Childhood & Youth at the University of Sheffield, UK
BIRGITTE JOHANSEN PhD student at the Norwegian Centre for Child Research, NTNU, Norway
TORA KORSVOLD Senior Research Fellow at the Norwegian Centre for Child Research, NTNU, Norway
ELIN KVANDE Professor of Sociology at the Department of Sociology and Political Science, NTNU, Norway
PETER MOSS Professor at Thomas Coram Research Unit, Institute of Education, University of London, UK
RANDI DYBLIE NILSEN Professor at the Norwegian Centre for Child Research, NTNU, Norway
MINNA RANTALAIHO Researcher at the Norwegian Centre for Child Research, NTNU, Norway and the Nordic Gender Institute, Finland
MONICA SELAND PhD student at the Norwegian Centre for Child Research, NTNU, Norway
HARRIET STRANDELL Docent and University Lecturer at the Department of Sociology, University of Helsinki, Sweden