Chapter 1 Early Childhood Grows Up: Towards a Critical Ecology of the Profession

Chapter 2 Relationships, Reflexivity and Renewal: Professional Practice in Action in an Australian Children’s Centre

Chapter 3 Leading and Managing in an Early Years Setting in England

Chapter 4 Acting as a Professional in a Finnish Early Childhood Education Context

Chapter 6 A Constant Juggle for Balance: A Day in the Life of a New Zealand Kindergarten Teacher

Chapter 7 Working with a Democratic Curriculum: The Swedish Case Study

Chapter 8 Radical Reconstructions? Early Childhood Workforce Profiles in Changing European Early Childhood Education and Care Systems

Chapter 9 Childcare Professionalism in Flanders: An Inside–Outside Perspective

Chapter 10 A Need, a Desire, a Shared Responsibility: Professional Development for a New Public Education

Chapter 11 A Profession Speaking and Thinking for Itself