Thursday, 10 October 2013
13.00 Arrival and welcome
13.30 Kirsten Scheiwe and Harry Willekens, Introduction to the purposes and main questions of the conference
Part 1: Comparative country studies
14.00 Harry Willekens, Comparing the “pioneers” Belgium and France and a supposed laggard, the Netherlands
14.25 Frank Simon, Comment on Willekens
14.35 Discussion
15.00-15.20 Break
15.20 Angelo Gaudio, Preschool in Italy: a national tradition of institutional and ideological pluralism
15.45 Carmen Sanchidrian Blanco, Early childhood education, the State and the Church in Spain: a history of different goals, paths and models
16.10 Eva Hohnerlein, Comment on Gaudio and Sanchidrian Blanco
16.20 Discussion
17.05-17.20 Break
17.20-18.00 Discussion of the publication project
Friday, 11 October 2013
Part 1: Comparative country studies (continued)
9.00 Susanne Wiborg, Different paths of late development in the Scandinavian countries
9.25 Arnlaug Leira, The child care transition in Scandinavia – the changing focus of policy reform: Children, families, care, education and employment
9.50 Annette Borchorst, Comment on Wiborg and Leira
10.00 Discussion
10.45 Break
11.00 Kristen Nawrotzki, Two countries, one movement? Intermediaries, experts and change in early childhood education in England and the USA, 1850-1920
11.25 Larry Prochner, Kindergarten and the New Education Movement in Canada and the United States: a cross-national perspective
11.50 Adrienne Chambon, Canadian early childhood education debates about citizenship education and social work, and transnational influences from the US and the UK (1900-1935)
12.15 Discussion
13.15 Lunch
Part 2: Movements and ideas and their influence upon the kindergarten institution over time
14.15 Jean-Noël Luc, The spread of kindergarten models in Europe in the course of the nineteenth century
14.40 Franz-Michael Konrad, Theories of preschool education and their realisation: the examples of Friedrich Fröbel and Maria Montessori in Germany and Switzerland
15.05 Discussion
15.45 Break
16.00 Meike Baader, The intersection between the German women’s and kindergarten movements in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries
16.25 Chiara Bertone, The claims of the women's movement on preschools in Italy and Denmark
16.50 Arianna Lazzari, Comment on Baader and Bertone
17.00-17.45 Discussion
19.30 Conference dinner
Saturday, 12 October 2013
Part 3: Kindergarten/preschool as part of the welfare state and/or the school system
9.00 Sonya Michel, Preschool, child care and welfare reform in the US
9.25 Annette Henninger, Comment on Michel
9.35 Discussion
10.00 Karen Hagemann, Comparing time policies of childcare and schooling in Eastern and Western Europe, 1945-1989
10.30 Discussion
10.50 Break
11.10 Janneke Plantenga, A welfare economist’s view on differential preschool developments
11.35 Discussion
11.55 Helen Penn, How the private market has been constructed in early education and child care: a comparative perspective
12.20 Discussion
12.40-13.00 Concluding discussion
Scientific directors: Prof. Dr. Kirsten Scheiwe, Prof. Harry Willekens