List of contributors List of figures List of tables Preface 1. Introduction to policification of early childhood education (Susanne Garvis and Sivanes Phillipson) 2. Facebook mentoring of beginning teachers: Implications for ECEC teacher training in Australia (Sharryn Clarke & Sivanes Phillipson) 3. Citizen engagement in childcare policy: Examining childcare problematisations in Canadian newspaper articles from 2008 to 2015 (Brooke Richardson & Rachel Langford) 4. Current research on early childhood education in Chile: The quality of the services and early literacy (Rodrigo A. Cárcamo & Alicia A. Garcia) 5. From caring to learning: The transformation of Danish day care institutions in the twenty-first century (Sine Penthin Grumlose) 6.
Early childhood education policy, teachers' professionalism and family practices in Estonia (Tiina Peterson, Tiia Õun & Aino Ugaste) 7. Playing to learn in Finland: Early childhood curricular and operational contexts (Jonna Kangas, Heidi Harju-Luukkainen, Annu Brotherus, Arniika Kuusisto & Liam Gearon) 8. Beyond transformations and transnational reform movements in educational policy and practice: 'Culture' as a framework for critical reflections (Dagmar Kasüschke & Stefan Faas) 9. Early childhood teacher education in Greece: Challenges and opportunities in centralised education system (Maria Birbili & Melpomeni Tsitouridou) 10. The policification and post-colonisation of early childhood in Iceland (Kristín Dýrfjörð) 11. Unlocking the pandora's box: Rethinking the cost, quality, and outcomes of ECEC systems in Korea (Sojung Seo) 12. Aotearoa/ New Zealand early childhood education: Moving forward with intention (Gaye Tyler-Merrick, Sue Cherrington, Tara McLaughlin, Claire McLachlan, Karyn Aspden & Joanna Phillips) 13. Contested quality: The struggle over quality, play and pre-schooling in Norwegian ECEC (Svein Erik Tuastad, Elisabeth Bjornestad & Marit Alvestad) 14.
Pre-school quality research in Russia: Assessment for improving the quality (Igor Shiyan, Olga Shiyan, Aleksander Veraksa & Nikolay Veraksa) 15. Early childhood workforce in Serbia as a policy issue (Tijana Bogovac & Lidija MiÅ¡keljin) 16. In-service early childhood teachers' perceptions of professionalism and professionalisation in Singapore: Shifting sands in a political and policy landscape (Hilary Monk & Sivanes Phillipson) 17. Critical aspects for the preschool quality in Sweden (Sonja Sheridan, Susanne Garvis, Pia Williams and Elisabeth Mellgren) 18. Turning the tide of ECEC in Taiwan (Yi-Hui Lin, Yvonne Yu-Feng Liu) 19. Early childhood education in the Netherlands: Parental engagement as a policy view (Elisabeth Duursma) 20. A critical review of early childhood education and social policies in Turkey (Åenil Ünlü Çetin) 21. Policy and Childhood: Making sense of systems (Sivanes Phillipson and Susanne Garvis) Index.