List of Figures
List of Tables
Preface and Acknowledgements
Part I: Assessing the Scope of Policy Change in Liberal Welfare States
1. Constructing Policy Change in Early Childhood Education and Care: Scientific Avenues and Cultural Impediments in Liberal Welfare States
2. The Idea of Childhood and the Idea of Motherhood in Liberal Welfare State
3. Explaining the Shift in Norms Surrounding Early Childhood, Motherhood, and the State in the 21st Century
Part II: The Sources of Policy Change
4. The Role of Science and the Development of an ECEC Knowledge Regime
5. Transnationalization and Internationalization of ECEC Ideas
Part III: From Ideas to Policy Change
6. Constructing Early Childhood Education and Care Policy Shifts in the USA
7. Constructing Early Childhood Education and Care Policy Shifts in in Canada
Part IV
8. Conclusion
List of References