Susanne Garvis is Professor of Child and Youth Studies at the Department of Education, Communication and Learning, University of Gothenburg, Sweden.Elin Eriksen Ødegaard is Professor of Early Childhood Education at the Center of Educational Research, Western Norway University of Applied Sciences, Norway, and Visiting Professor at UiT The Artic University of Norway.

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• List of contributorsIntroductionChapter 1: The collectivity of family conduct of life and parental self-understanding Chapter 2: Family life in the Nordic countries Chapter 3: Constituting Cultures of Compassion in Early Childhood Educational Settings Chapter 4: Pedagogical leadership and families in Swedish preschool Chapter 5: Early Childhood Education, gender relations and equality between parents and families in Sweden Chapter 6: Divorce, families and children Chapter 7: “We have this family ‘under the microscope’ so to speak”: Schools, child abuse and family support Chapter 8: Economic, social and cultural status (ESCS) and mathematics performance of immigrant students’ in the Finnish metropolitan area in PISA 2012 Chapter 9: Coming and staying or coming and going? Immigrant families in Denmark: Challenges and opportunities for integration Chapter 10: Parental Engagement in Icelandic Preschools Chapter 11: The Importance of Aesthetic Activities in Norwegian Kindergartens