InhaltsangabeForeword; Peter Moss.- SECTION 1: Professionalism in Local and Cross National Contexts: towards a Critical Ecology of the Profession.- 1. Early Childhood Grows up: towards a Critical Ecology of the Profession; Carmen Dalli, Linda Miller and Mathias Urban.- 2. Relationships, Reflexivity and Renewal: Professional Practice in Action in an Australian Children's Centre; Christine Woodrow.- 3. Leading and Managing in an Early Years Setting in England; Linda Miller, Carrie Cable and Gill Goodliff.- 4. Acting as a Professional in a Finnish Early Childhood Education Context; Kirsti Karila and Jarmo Kinos.- 5. The Uncertain Expert: a Case Study from Germany; Mathias Urban.- 6. A Constant Juggle for Balance: a Day in the Life of a New Zealand Kindergarten Teacher; Carmen Dalli.- 7. Working with a Democratic Curriculum: the Swedish Case Study; Marja Kuisma and Anette Sandberg.- SECTION 2 International Perspectives on Professionalism.- 8. Radical Reconstructions? Early Childhood Workforce Profiles in Changing European ECEC Systems; Pamela Oberhuemer.- 9. Childcare Professionalism in Flanders: an inside-outside Perspective; Jan Peeters.- 10. A Need, a Desire, a Shared Responsibility: Professional Development for a New Public Education; Irene Balaguer with an introduction by Mathias Urban.- 11. A Profession Speaking - and Thinking - for Itself; Mathias Urban and Carmen Dalli.- Index.

Foreword; Peter Moss.- SECTION 1: Professionalism in Local and Cross National Contexts: towards a Critical Ecology of the Profession.- 1. Early Childhood Grows up: towards a Critical Ecology of the Profession; Carmen Dalli, Linda Miller and Mathias Urban.- 2. Relationships, Reflexivity and Renewal: Professional Practice in Action in an Australian Children¿s Centre; Christine Woodrow.- 3. Leading and Managing in an Early Years Setting in England; Linda Miller, Carrie Cable and Gill Goodliff.- 4. Acting as a Professional in a Finnish Early Childhood Education Context; Kirsti Karila and Jarmo Kinos.- 5. The Uncertain Expert: a Case Study from Germany; Mathias Urban.- 6. A Constant Juggle for Balance: a Day in the Life of a New Zealand Kindergarten Teacher; Carmen Dalli.- 7. Working with a Democratic Curriculum: the Swedish Case Study; Marja Kuisma and Anette Sandberg.- SECTION 2 International Perspectives on Professionalism.- 8. Radical Reconstructions? Early Childhood Workforce Profiles in Changing European ECEC Systems; Pamela Oberhuemer.- 9. Childcare Professionalism in Flanders: an inside-outside Perspective; Jan Peeters.- 10. A Need, a Desire, a Shared Responsibility: Professional Development for a New Public Education; Irene Balaguer with an introduction by Mathias Urban.- 11. A Profession Speaking - and Thinking - for Itself; Mathias Urban and Carmen Dalli.- Index.