Cover; Copyright; Contents; Figures and Tables; Preface and Acknowledgments; Part One: Assessing the Scope of Policy Change in Liberal Welfare States; 1 Constructing Policy Change in Early Childhood Education and Care: Scientific Avenues and Cultural Impediments in Liberal Welfare States; 2 The Idea of Childhood and the Idea of Motherhood in Liberal Welfare States; 3 Explaining the Shift in Norms Surrounding Early Childhood, Motherhood, and the State in the Twenty-First Century; Part Two: The Sources of Policy Change; 4 The Role of Science in the Development of an ECEC Knowledge Regime

5 Transnationalization and Internationalization of ECEC IdeasPart Three: From Ideas to Policy Change; 6 Constructing Early Childhood Education and Care Policy Shifts in the United States; 7 Constructing Early Childhood Education and Care Policy Shifts in Canada; Part Four: Conclusion; 8 Conclusion; Notes; References; Permission Credits; Index