Who cares for the children? Denmark's unique public child-care model

Phi Delta Kappan

Volumn 78, Issue 8, 1997, Pages 604-610

  Polakow, Valerie ^a  

^a EASTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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References (25)

1. Social Policy in Denmark: Child and Family Policies (Copenhagen: Danish Ministry of Social Affairs, 1995), p. 4.
2. Sheila B. Kamerman and Alfred J. Kahn, eds., Child Care, Parental Leave, and the Under 3's: Policy Innovation in Europe (New York: Auburn House, 1991);
3. idem. Starting Right: How America Neglects Its Youngest Children and What We Can Do About It (New York: Oxford University Press, 1995);
4. and Valerie Polakow, Lives on the Edge: Single Mothers and Their Children in the Other America (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1993).
5. Nancy Ebb, Child Care Tradeoffs: States Make Painful Choices (Washington, D.C.: Children's Defense Fund, 1994);
6. U.S. General Accounting Office, Review of Health and Safety Standards at Child Care Facilities (Washington, D.C.: Department of Health and Human Services, 1993);
7. and Suzanne Helburn, ed., Cost, Quality, and Child Outcomes in Child Care Centers (ERIC ED 386 297, 1995).
8. Marsden Wagner and Mary Wagner, The Danish National Child-Care System (Boulder, Colo.: Westview Press, 1976);
9. David A. Corsini, "Family Day Care in Denmark: A Model for the United States?," Young Children, July 1991, pp. 10-15;
10. and Employment Equality and Caring for Children: Annual Report (Brussels: European Commission Network on Child Care, 1993).
11. Jacob Vedel-Petersen, Day Care for Children Under School Age in Denmark (Copenhagen: Danish National Institute of Social Research, 1992), p. 18.
12. Teacher certification for pædagoger is a unique and separate 3 1/2-year training program for early childhood teachers, special needs teachers, and recreation specialists offered at 32 colleges of social education in Denmark.
13. Vedel-Petersen, p. 17.
14. Ibid.
15. Jytte Juul Jensen, "Age-Integrated Centres in Denmark," in Employment Equality and Caring for Children: Annual Report (European Commission Network on Child Care, 1992), pp. 35-38.
16. Social Policy in Denmark.
17. All names have been changed to protect confidentiality.
18. Martin Haberman, "Gentle Teaching in a Violent Society," Educational Horizons, vol. 72, 1994, pp. 131-35;
19. and Stacie G. Goffin, "How Well Do We Respect the Children in Our Care?" Childhood Education, vol. 66, 1989, pp. 68-74.
20. The State of America's Children 1996 (Washington, D.C.: Children's Defense Fund, 1996).
21. U.S. General Accounting Office, op. cit.
22. Ebb, The State of America's Children 1996. op. cit.
23. Helburn, The State of America's Children 1996. op. cit.
24. The State of America's Children, p. 93.
25. Bodil Stenvig, John Andersen, and Lisbeth Laursen, "Statistics for Work and the Family in Denmark and the EC," in Søren Carlsen and Joørgen E. Larsen, eds., The Equality Dilemma: Reconciling Working Life and Family Life, Viewed in an Equality Perspective (Copenhagen: Danish Equal Status Council, 1994).