Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. International perspectives: themes and issues / Linda Miller and Claire Cameron -- Pt.1. Care, education and notions of intervention -- 2. Seeing early childhood issues through a European lens / Pamerla Oberhuemer -- 3. The relatiionship between early childhood and primary education / Yosbie Kaga -- 4. How to construct a curriculum in an Italian nido / Tullia Musatti, Donatella Giovannini, Susanna Mayer and Group Nido LagoMago -- 5. The French approach to family intervention with families with young children / Anne-Marie Doucet-Dahlgren -- 6. The Roma Early Childhood Inclusion (RECI) research project / John Bennett -- Pt.2. Children's spaces -- 7. Space and place as a source of belonging and participation in ealy years services in Chiapas, Mexico / Margaret Kernana and Kathia Loyzaga -- 8. Place-based learning in ealy years services: approaches and examples from Norway and Scotland / Bronwen Cohen and Wenche Rønning -- 9. Perceptions of using the outdoors in ealy childhood education and care centres in England, Hungary and Denmark: some questions about the recruitment of male workers / Claire Cameron -- 10. Agency and children's well-being / Roger Hancock, Ann Cameron and Aysbe Talay-Ongan -- 11. International perspectives: using the lens of 'other' to consider what we learn / Claire Cameron amd Linda Miller.