Description
Part 1 Policy and organization: across the spectrum - family day care internationally; home-like? Some unique features of the emerging family day care provision in Hungary; carving out a niche? The work of Tagesmutter in the new Germany; family day care in New Zealand -training, quality and professional status; sharing the caring - the development of childminding networks in Britain; family day care in Israel - policy, quality and the daily experiences of children. Part 2 Understandings of family care: what it means to be a childminder -work or love?; agency and ethics - family day care providers' perspectives on quality; the everyday life of children in family day care as seen by the carers; family day care in France; provider and parent perspectives of family day care for ''children in need'' - a third party inbetween; partnership with providers? Why parents from diverse cultural backgrounds choose family day care; setting child-care standards with respect for cultural differences - who says what is quality?; whither family day care?