Realities of Education and Care. Quality and Qualification in Flexible Structures of Daycare in Luxembourgian Maisons Relais pour Enfants (EDUQUA-MRE)

The study deals with the practice of education and care for 0-4 year old children in the publicly funded daycare sector of Luxembourg by examining six selected crèches with the methods of ethnographic fieldwork. It describes the realities of care focusing on the question how professionals account for their educational significance in light of heterogeneous and at times also dilemmatic expectations of their services. Thus, the study contributes to debates on the educational quality of daycare facilities. In contrast to most other studies on tis subject, however, it does not presuppose what "education" is or should be. Rather, it understands education as a task that educational practice has to confront in order to assure itself as being educational and to represent itself as such in front of its audience. Empirically, the study is about practices of pedagogicalization. Theoretically, it is about aspects of the institutionalization of non-familial childcare.F3R-INS-PUL-10EDUQ > EDUQUA-MRE Betreuungswirklichkeit und Bildungswirklichkeit > > HONIG Michael-Sebastia