Social innovation and welfare state retrenchment : a comparative analysis of early childhood education and care in Europe and beyond / edited by Raquel Gallego, Sheila González Motos, Lara Maestripieri.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Gallego, Raquel, editor.

González Motos, Sheila, editor.

Maestripieri, Lara, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Welfare state--Europe.

Welfare state.

Early childhood education--Europe.

Early childhood education.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (273 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Leeds, England : Emerald Publishing Limited, [2025]

Summary:

Since the early 2000s, social innovation has become increasingly relevant in the political and research debates on welfare state transformations. Although most social innovations are citizen-led, some new institution-led initiatives have also emerged. But what are the implications of social innovation for equity and welfare? How does policy learning from social innovation take place in different welfare regime contexts? How can policy be simultaneously responsive to the diversification of needs and to equity and universalisation? Social Innovation and Welfare State Retrenchment examines these questions by focusing on early childhood education and care (ECEC), where the welfare state has not managed to consolidate universal coverage, where social investment is considered crucial for equal opportunities, and where intersectional influences across different dimensions of inequality, such as education and gender-related issues, are central. Offering an original research design for studying the institutionalisation process of social innovation in ECEC across a variety of contexts in Europe and beyond, this collection provides evidence of how the interplay between social innovation and policy deeply affects equity and citizens' welfare in advanced capitalist economies.

Contents:

Section i. Introduction

Chapter 1. Social and policy innovation in early childhood education and care: A comparative perspective / Raquel Gallego, Lara Maestripieri, and Sheila González Motos

Chapter 2. The role of early childhood education and care in current welfare regime transformations / Lara Maestripieri, Sheila González Motos, and Raquel Gallego

Section ii. Early childhood education and care: Institutionalisation and social innovations in Spain and in barcelona

Chapter 3. The institutional design of early childhood education and care in Spain and its impact on equal opportunities / David Palomera, Margarita León, Lucía Martínez-Virto, Daniel Gabaldón-Estevan, and Zyab Ibáñez

Chapter 4. Institutionalising social innovation in early childhood education and care in barcelona, Spain / Lara Maestripieri and Raquel Gallego

Chapter 5. Exploring the pathways: Family decision-making in choosing institutionalised 0-3 education and care in barcelona, Spain / Enric Saurí Saula and Sheila González Motos

Chapter 6. Understanding families' motivations for choosing innovative ecec in barcelona, Spain: Comparing social and policy innovation / Raquel Gallego and Enric Saurí Saula

Section iii. Social innovation in early childhood education and care from a comparative perspective

Chapter 7. Promises and limits of social innovation in the French childcare system / Laurent Fraisse and Francesca Petrella

Chapter 8. Bottom-up cultural dynamics of social innovation in childcare for infants in Israel: A distinction mechanism and educational activism / Rakefet Sela-Sheffy, Netta Avnoon, and Revital Weil Gottshalk

Chapter 9. Institutionalised social innovation: The case of oslo, norway / Trine Monica Myrvold and Ellen Os

Chapter 10. Early childhood education and care and social innovation in venice, Italy: The role of regulation and resources / Maurizio Busacca, Barbara da Roit, and Pamela Pasian

Chapter 11. Social innovation in early childhood education and care in England: The case of portsmouth / Nikki Fairchild and Éva Mikuska

Chapter 12. How the Japanese welfare regime incorporated mothers' social innovations in ecec / Kumiko Hagiwara

Section iv. Conclusions

Chapter 13. Comparing ecec and social innovation across welfare regimes: Key lessons to move towards universalisation / Sheila González Motos, Raquel Gallego, and Lara Maestripieri.

Notes:

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references.

Print version record.

ISBN:

9781837539307

1837539308

9781837539284

1837539286