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Early childhood policy by country

"This is the second and final volume summarising the findings of the ECCE (European Child Care and Education) project. The overall project had two interrelated goals: 1. To better understand the nature and quality of care received by 4 year-old Austrian, German, Portuguese, and Spanish children, and how it affects the children's developmental outcomes. 2. To better understand, [...]

Early childhood care and education (ECCE) generally embodies two different traditions: care and education. The former was often developed as welfare measures for working-class children who needed care while their parents were at work; the latter as kindergarten or pre-primary education, providing middle-class or all children with enriched educational activities prior to formal [...]