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This unique comparison of early childhood education and care services, and parenting leave, across seven high-income Anglophone countries reveals widespread failings, both in systems and the thinking behind them. The book plots a path towards a transformed early childhood system - public, universal, education-based and meeting many needs.

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'This book is a useful contribution to the field because of its attention to detail. We know already the main arguments that it makes, but in engaging with the richness of this book - its philosophical clarity, and its detailed analysis of early childhood across time and place - we can start to feel the possibilities for transformation in the system.' British Journal of Educational Studies

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Peter Moss is Emeritus Professor of Early Childhood Provision at the Thomas Coram Research Unit, UCL, having joined the Unit in 1973. He co-founded the International Network on Leave Policies and for 10 years co-edited the book series Contesting Early Childhood. Much of his work has been cross-national and his interests include early childhood education, democracy in education and the relationship between employment, care and gender. Linda Mitchell is Professor of Early Childhood Education in the Division of Education, University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand. Her current research is in early childhood education policy; teachers’ work; refugee and immigrant families in early childhood education; and democracy in education. She is working with Timorese collaborators to support play-based pedagogy in preschools in Timor Leste. She has a Leverhulme grant for a visiting professorship to Manchester Metropolitan University in 2021 and 2022 where she will facilitate a robust theorisation of democratic education and its practices that will be applicable to all education settings from birth through lifelong learning.

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