Dagmar Kasüschke is professor of elementary education and its didactics at the University of Education Schwäbisch GmündDiana Franke-Meyer is professor of Educational Science specialising in elementary education at the Protestant University of Applied Sciences in Bochum Rita Braches-Chyrek is professor of Social Pedagogy at the University of Bamberg

• Introduction (Dagmar Kasüschke, Diana Franke-Meyer & Rita Braches-Chyrek)I. Institutions and Families in Early Childhood Education and CareThe Influence of the Bourgeois Family Norm on the Organisation of Extra-Familial Child Day Care in the 19th Century in Germany (Diana Franke-Meyer)Historical Aspects of the Austrian Kindergarten to Consider the Current Field of Tension Between Upbringing, Education, Care and Institutionalisation (Katharina Röser)History of ECE Institutions in Relation to the Evolution of the Family in the Postwar Italy Until the 1970s (Dorena Caroli)“Changing Notions of Family and Early Childhood Settings in Australia: An Auto-Ethnographic Reflection (Susanne Garvis and Anne Keary)Relationships Between the Family and Czech Pre-school Institutions during the 20th Century: A Historical Perspective (Jana Uhliřova & Barbora Loudová Stralczynská)"No Longer Just Onlookers" – Parents and Kindergarten Teachers Work Together in the Kindergarten (Katrin Macha)II. Institution and Profession in Early Childhood Education and CareDevelopmentally Appropriate Practice and its Impact on the Field of Early Child Education and Care in the United States (Roseanne Vallice Levy & Helge Wasmuth)Preschool Education and Family Involvement in Turkey (Sena Öz, Müdriye Yıldız Bıçakçı, Esra Beker, Figen Gürsoy & Neriman Aral)Exploring the Development of Early Childhood Education in Hungary: A Focus on Family Collaboration (Angela Bajzáth & Nóra Rapos)The History of the Research Field of Child Protection (Rita Braches-Chyrek)List of AuthorsIndex

Dagmar Kasüschke is professor of elementary education and its didactics at the University of Education Schwäbisch GmündDiana Franke-Meyer is professor of Educational Science specialising in elementary education at the Protestant University of Applied Sciences in Bochum Rita Braches-Chyrek is professor of Social Pedagogy at the University of Bamberg

• Introduction (Dagmar Kasüschke, Diana Franke-Meyer & Rita Braches-Chyrek)I. Institutions and Families in Early Childhood Education and CareThe Influence of the Bourgeois Family Norm on the Organisation of Extra-Familial Child Day Care in the 19th Century in Germany (Diana Franke-Meyer)Historical Aspects of the Austrian Kindergarten to Consider the Current Field of Tension Between Upbringing, Education, Care and Institutionalisation (Katharina Röser)History of ECE Institutions in Relation to the Evolution of the Family in the Postwar Italy Until the 1970s (Dorena Caroli)“Changing Notions of Family and Early Childhood Settings in Australia: An Auto-Ethnographic Reflection (Susanne Garvis and Anne Keary)Relationships Between the Family and Czech Pre-school Institutions during the 20th Century: A Historical Perspective (Jana Uhliřova & Barbora Loudová Stralczynská)"No Longer Just Onlookers" – Parents and Kindergarten Teachers Work Together in the Kindergarten (Katrin Macha)II. Institution and Profession in Early Childhood Education and CareDevelopmentally Appropriate Practice and its Impact on the Field of Early Child Education and Care in the United States (Roseanne Vallice Levy & Helge Wasmuth)Preschool Education and Family Involvement in Turkey (Sena Öz, Müdriye Yıldız Bıçakçı, Esra Beker, Figen Gürsoy & Neriman Aral)Exploring the Development of Early Childhood Education in Hungary: A Focus on Family Collaboration (Angela Bajzáth & Nóra Rapos)The History of the Research Field of Child Protection (Rita Braches-Chyrek)List of AuthorsIndex

Dagmar Kasüschke is professor of elementary education and its didactics at the University of Education Schwäbisch GmündDiana Franke-Meyer is professor of Educational Science specialising in elementary education at the Protestant University of Applied Sciences in Bochum Rita Braches-Chyrek is professor of Social Pedagogy at the University of Bamberg

• Introduction (Dagmar Kasüschke, Diana Franke-Meyer & Rita Braches-Chyrek)I. Institutions and Families in Early Childhood Education and CareThe Influence of the Bourgeois Family Norm on the Organisation of Extra-Familial Child Day Care in the 19th Century in Germany (Diana Franke-Meyer)Historical Aspects of the Austrian Kindergarten to Consider the Current Field of Tension Between Upbringing, Education, Care and Institutionalisation (Katharina Röser)History of ECE Institutions in Relation to the Evolution of the Family in the Postwar Italy Until the 1970s (Dorena Caroli)“Changing Notions of Family and Early Childhood Settings in Australia: An Auto-Ethnographic Reflection (Susanne Garvis and Anne Keary)Relationships Between the Family and Czech Pre-school Institutions during the 20th Century: A Historical Perspective (Jana Uhliřova & Barbora Loudová Stralczynská)"No Longer Just Onlookers" – Parents and Kindergarten Teachers Work Together in the Kindergarten (Katrin Macha)II. Institution and Profession in Early Childhood Education and CareDevelopmentally Appropriate Practice and its Impact on the Field of Early Child Education and Care in the United States (Roseanne Vallice Levy & Helge Wasmuth)Preschool Education and Family Involvement in Turkey (Sena Öz, Müdriye Yıldız Bıçakçı, Esra Beker, Figen Gürsoy & Neriman Aral)Exploring the Development of Early Childhood Education in Hungary: A Focus on Family Collaboration (Angela Bajzáth & Nóra Rapos)The History of the Research Field of Child Protection (Rita Braches-Chyrek)List of AuthorsIndex