Peter Moss
Biographic Data
| ID | 5689128 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Peter Moss |
| GIVEN NAMES | Peter |
| FAMILY NAME | Moss |
| SIGNATURE | MOSS P |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of London |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7881-726X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 48 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 138 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 41 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 7 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1984 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Managing Mothers
Neoliberalism and Early Childhood Education
"Neoliberalism, with its worldview of competition, choice and calculation, its economisation of everything, and its will to govern has 'sunk its roots deep' into Early Childhood Education and Care. This book considers its deeply detrimental impacts upon young children, families, settings and the workforce. Through an exploration of possibilities for resistance and refusal, and reflection on the significance of the Coronavirus pandemic, Roberts-Ho…
Parental Leave and beyond
A social right? Access to leave and its relation to parents’ labour market position
There is limited knowledge about eligibility for leave in general, and about leave rights of parents less securely attached to the labour market in particular. Consequently, social inequalities in access to leave rights remain hidden, which may be particularly pronounced in countries where stable employment is a principal condition to exercise leave rights. In this chapter, we develop an innovative conceptual framework based on the social rights …
Parental Leave and Beyond
This volume provides an international perspective on parental leave policies in different countries, goes beyond this to examine a range of issues in depth, and aims to stimulate thinking about possible futures and how policy might underpin them.
Parental Leave and Beyond
Time for more storytelling
We believe that the roots of [the converging crises of our times] lie in the stories we have been telling ourselves. ... We will reassert the role of story-telling as more than mere entertainment. It
Transformative Change and Real Utopias in Early Childhood Education
Early childhood education and care is a major policy issue for national governments and international organisations. This book contests two stories, both infused by neoliberal thinking, that dominate early childhood policy making today - ‘the story of quality and high returns’ and ‘the story of markets’, stories that promise high returns on investment if only the right technologies are applied to children and the perfection of a system based on c…
Beyond Quality in Early Childhood Education and Care
Taking a broad approach, Beyond Quality in Early Childhood Education and Care relates issues of early childhood to the sociology of childhood, philosophy, ethics, political science and other fields and to an analysis of the world we live in today. It places these issues in a global context and draws on work from Canada, Sweden and Italy, including the world famous nurseries in Reggio Emilia.Working with postmodern ideas, this book questions the s…
Politiques de congés pour les enfants en Europe
Cet article examine la position émergente des pères dans les congés parentaux en Europe. Il tente de répondre à deux questions. Est-ce que ces congés modifient le comportement des pères dans les soins à court terme ? Dans quelle mesure les politiques de congés répondent-elles à la problématique, beaucoup plus vaste, de la relation entre aide aux proches, emploi et genre tout au long de l’existence ? Cette relation condamne aujourd’hui les femmes …
Re‐Forming the School
In the context of government decentralisation and integration of services, over the last 15 years Sweden has been developing an all‐day school based on inter‐professional teamworking and adopting a holistic approach to working with children. The article describes these recent educational reforms in Sweden, which have sought to re‐structure the school and develop new ways of working, offers some evaluative comments on this process and considers po…
Response to Eduardo M. Duarte’s Review of Radical Education and the Common School
Parental leaves and early childhood education and care
The politics of parental leave policiesChildren, parenting, gender and the labour market
Introduction ~ Peter Moss and Sheila B. Kamerman Australia: the difficult birth of paid maternity leave ~ Deborah Brennan Canada and Quebec: two policies, one country ~ Andrea Doucet, Lindsey McKay and Diane-Gabrielle Tremblay Czech Republic: normative or choice-oriented system? ~ Ji?ina Kocourkova Estonia: halfway from the Soviet Union to the Nordic countries ~ Marre Karu and Katre Pall Finland: negotiating tripartite compromises ~ Johanna Lammi…
Radical Education and the Common School
What is education, what is it for and what are its fundamental values? How do we understand knowledge and learning? What is our image of the child and the school? How does the ever more pressing need to develop a more just, creative and sustainable democratic society affect our responses to these questions? Addressing these fundamental issues, Fielding and Moss contest the current mainstream dominated by markets and competition, instrumentality a…
The politics of parental leave policies
Beyond Quality in Early Childhood Education and Care
Taking a broad approach, this second edition of Beyond Quality in Early Childhood Education and Care relates issues of early childhood to the sociology of childhood, philosophy, ethics, political science and other fields and to an analysis of the world we live in today. It places these issues in a global context and draws on work from Canada, Sweden and Italy, including the world famous nurseries in Reggio Emilia. Working with postmodern ideas, t…
Bokomtaler
La atención a personas dependientes en Europa
Ante la constatacin de importantes cambios demogrficos, econmicos y sociales en Europa que afectan a la provisin de servicios de apoyo a las personas dependientes, la Comisin Europea financi la investigacin "La atencin a personas dependientes en Europa (conceptos actuales y perspectivas futuras)" que a continuacin se presenta. Entre los seis pases que conforman la muestra se encuentran importantes diferencias conceptuales y estructurales en la at…
From a Childcare to a Pedagogical Discourse – Or Putting Care in its Place
The book explores the implications of changes to the welfare state for children in a range of countries. Children, Changing Families and Welfare States: examines the implications of social policies for children; sets the discussion in the broader context of both family change and welfare state change, exploring the nature of the policy debate that has allowed the welfare of the child to come to the fore; tackles policies to do with both the care …
Leave Policies and Research
Leave policies for working parents are today widespread among affluent countries, and are required by law in the member states of the European Union. This article reviews leave policies (maternity, paternity, and parental leaves as well as leave to care for sick children) in a wide range of countries, both within and outside the EU, highlighting the main similarities and differences and identifying directions discernible in recent policy developm…
Beyond listening
More young children than ever before are spending their time in some form of early childhood service. But how do we know what they think about it? While there has been a move to take children's views into account more generally, very little attention has been given to listening to young children below the age of six or seven. This book is the first of its kind to focus on listening to young children, both from an international perspective and thr…
Beyond Listening
Spaces to Play
Following on from `Listening to Young Children: The Mosaic approach' (NCB, 2001), this book reports on a pilot study that used the Mosaic approach to explore with young children their understandings and uses of outdoor provision, in order to inform future plans
Care Work
Introduction Part 1: Thematic Critique 1. Nineteenth Century Understandings of Care Work 2. Who are Today's Care Workers? 3. Gender Issues and Care Workers 4. Knowledge and Education for Care Workers: What is Good Enough 5. Location, Location, Location: The Importance of Where Care Work Takes Place Part 2: Changing Care Work Organisations 6. The Changing Face of Care Work 7. The Professional Care Worker: The Social Pedagogue in Northern Europe 8.…
Feminist Fallacies
Les AA. s'efforcent de repondre aux affirmations de C. Hakim selon lesquelles la sociologie feministe en repliquant aux analyses patriarcales a cree de nouveaux mythes concernant l'emploi des femmes et s'est ecartee de l'evidence. Ils estiment que ces theses sont provocantes. Ils presentent une refutation de chacune d'entre elles. Ils affirment que Hakim a mesinterprete les donnees concernant les attitudes des femmes envers le travail et montrent…
Managing Mothers
Radical Education and the Common School
What is education, what is it for and what are its fundamental values? How do we understand knowledge and learning? What is our image of the child and the school? How does the ever more pressing need to develop a more just, creative and sustainable democratic society affect our responses to these questions? Addressing these fundamental issues, Fielding and Moss contest the current mainstream dominated by markets and competition, instrumentality a…
The child care workforce
At a time of major expansion in `child care' services, the workforce becomes a major issue. Drawing on a number of linked studies of the child care workforce, the article first provides an analysis of the situation of the current workforce, including the highly gendered nature of the work, low pay and high job satisfaction, and how the work is understood. It then considers whether, at a time of increasing demand for workers in both child care and…
The ‘child in need’ and ‘the rich child’
Drawing on two principal theoretical perspectives—social constructionism and Foucault's ideas about power—and data from a study of sponsored day care for children in need, the article problematizes the concept of ‘the child in need’—which plays a major part in current discourse, policy and practice in British social work—and explores how the concept is both produced from dominant discourses about childhood, and is in turn productive of a particul…
Leave Policies and Research
Leave policies for working parents are today widespread among affluent countries, and are required by law in the member states of the European Union. This article reviews leave policies (maternity, paternity, and parental leaves as well as leave to care for sick children) in a wide range of countries, both within and outside the EU, highlighting the main similarities and differences and identifying directions discernible in recent policy developm…
Patterns of preschool provision in English local authorities 1
It is estimated that in 1986 40‐50% of children in England aged 3 and 4 were attending pre‐school playgroups. Another 20% were receiving education in nursery schools and classes, mostly part time, whilst a further 20% were in the reception classes of infant schools, mostly full time. Using data on the provision of these services within each local authority in England it is shown that the numbers of nursery education and of playgroup places are st…
Parental leaves and early childhood education and care
Sure start
This paper outlines what is involved in Sure Start, one of New Labour's key social policy interventions. It is argued that there are policy continuities with older redemptive policies which focus on young children. It is also argued that Sure Start could provide a bridgehead for a more socially democratic orientation into early childhood policy. Notes * Thomas Coram Research Unit, 27–28 Woburn Square, London WC1H QAA, UK. Email: [email protected]…
Poor relations in the preschool family
Playgroups provide for more children under five than any other preschool service, and now regard themselves as an alternative to, rather than a substitute for, nursery education. Based on research in 45 playgroups in three areas (rural, inner city, and suburban), the paper looks in more detail at the consequences for playgroups of their current funding position and, more specifically, at the impact on various aspects of playgroups ‐ including pre…
The indirect costs of parenthood
Radio voices
Radio voices
The indirect costs of parenthood
Use of pre‐school daycare and education 1979–86
Using General Household Survey data, this paper considers attendance by children under five at public and private services providing non‐parental daycare and education in 1986 and compares it with 1979. Attendance of children under five rose from 32 per cent in 1979 to 42 per cent in 1986. The services included are primary schools, nursery schools and classes, playgroups, day nurseries and child minders. Playgroups are most used for two and three…
Patterns of preschool provision in English local authorities 1
It is estimated that in 1986 40‐50% of children in England aged 3 and 4 were attending pre‐school playgroups. Another 20% were receiving education in nursery schools and classes, mostly part time, whilst a further 20% were in the reception classes of infant schools, mostly full time. Using data on the provision of these services within each local authority in England it is shown that the numbers of nursery education and of playgroup places are st…
Work, family and the care of children
The current growth in women's employment, particularly among women with young children, gives new prominence to an issue of major political, economic and social importance, involving men as well as women and children: the relationship between paid work and family responsibilities and how to reconcile these demands without creating inequalities or stress for children or parents, especially mothers. The paper considers the Government's response to …
Parental Involvement in Playgroups
This paper reports results from a study of playgroups in three areas of England. It describes the extent and nature of parent involvement in the study playgroups, and how far this involvement included fathers as well as mothers; examines the relationship between involvement and various socio‐economic characteristics of the parents, to see whether certain groups were more or less likely to be involved in their children's playgroups; and considers …
Poor relations in the preschool family
Playgroups provide for more children under five than any other preschool service, and now regard themselves as an alternative to, rather than a substitute for, nursery education. Based on research in 45 playgroups in three areas (rural, inner city, and suburban), the paper looks in more detail at the consequences for playgroups of their current funding position and, more specifically, at the impact on various aspects of playgroups ‐ including pre…
The children Act 1989 and early childhood services
This paper considers the implications of including general and non-welfare day care services for children under 8 years in the Children Act, a mainly welfare measure. Day care services do not benefit from becoming subject to any broad principles contained within the Act. With respect to these particular services, the Act is essentially conservative in its approach and modest in its scope. It perpetuates the status quo, in particular the division …
Reconciling Employment and Family Responsibilities
Feminist Fallacies
Les AA. s'efforcent de repondre aux affirmations de C. Hakim selon lesquelles la sociologie feministe en repliquant aux analyses patriarcales a cree de nouveaux mythes concernant l'emploi des femmes et s'est ecartee de l'evidence. Ils estiment que ces theses sont provocantes. Ils presentent une refutation de chacune d'entre elles. Ils affirment que Hakim a mesinterprete les donnees concernant les attitudes des femmes envers le travail et montrent…
Informing ourselves about early childhood services
Using a range of examples, the paper argues that there is an information deficit concerning early childhood services; even on the most basic issues, there is either no information or such information as does exists is unreliable, limited or outdated. This matters because information is a necessary condition for good policy, for open and democratic decision making and for giving visibility to young children. The article concludes by considering ho…
Informing ourselves about early childhood services
Using a range of examples, the paper argues that there is an information deficit concerning early childhood services; even on the most basic issues, there is either no information or such information as does exists is unreliable, limited or outdated. This matters because information is a necessary condition for good policy, for open and democratic decision making and for giving visibility to young children. The article concludes by considering ho…
Informing ourselves about early childhood services
Men in the Nursery
Men in the Nursery is an examination of the issues surrounding gender and childcare. 99% of childcare workers are women. This text considers the case for employing more men and what steps might be taken to achieve this
Sponsored day care in a changing world
Sponsored day care is the term generally used to describe the purchase of places by local authorities in independent day care services (such as childminders, nurseries and playgroups) for children in need. This paper considers the development and operation of sponsored day care services in 12 English local authorities, in the context of current policy developments within early childhood services. It suggests that provision for children in need is…
Sponsored day care in a changing world
Sponsored day care is the term generally used to describe the purchase of places by local authorities in independent day care services (such as childminders, nurseries and playgroups) for children in need. This paper considers the development and operation of sponsored day care services in 12 English local authorities, in the context of current policy developments within early childhood services. It suggests that provision for children in need is…
The ‘child in need’ and ‘the rich child’
Drawing on two principal theoretical perspectives—social constructionism and Foucault's ideas about power—and data from a study of sponsored day care for children in need, the article problematizes the concept of ‘the child in need’—which plays a major part in current discourse, policy and practice in British social work—and explores how the concept is both produced from dominant discourses about childhood, and is in turn productive of a particul…
A profile of childminding
After friends and relatives, childminders are the most common form of child care. This paper reports the results from a postal survey of a nationally representative sample of over 1,000 childminders. Results are reported concerning childminders' training and employment histories, working conditions, motivation, commitment and satisfaction with their work. Two groups of childminders emerge; a group where childminding may be a passing phase in thei…
The Role of the Private Market in Day‐care Provision for Children in Need
This article examines the role that the private day‐care market plays within the range of day‐care services offered by 12 local authorities for children in need. It examines how local authorities have developed their use of private day‐care services generally, and goes on to discuss three models of sponsored childminding practice which were identified in the study. Although authorities have generally been innovative in developing their work with …
The child care workforce
At a time of major expansion in `child care' services, the workforce becomes a major issue. Drawing on a number of linked studies of the child care workforce, the article first provides an analysis of the situation of the current workforce, including the highly gendered nature of the work, low pay and high job satisfaction, and how the work is understood. It then considers whether, at a time of increasing demand for workers in both child care and…
Working and Caring over the Twentieth Century
Increased longevity and better health are changing the nature of family life. In the context of changes in the world of work, increased divorce and a declining welfare state, multi-generation or 'bean
Ethics and Politics in Early Childhood Education
The early childhood services of Reggio Emilia in Northern Italy has gained worldwide interest and admiration. Drawing on the ‘Reggio approach’, and others, this book explores the ethical and political dimensions of early childhood services and argues the importance of these dimensions at a time when they are often reduced to technical and managerial projects, without informed consideration for what is best for the child. Extending and developing …
Sure start
This paper outlines what is involved in Sure Start, one of New Labour's key social policy interventions. It is argued that there are policy continuities with older redemptive policies which focus on young children. It is also argued that Sure Start could provide a bridgehead for a more socially democratic orientation into early childhood policy. Notes * Thomas Coram Research Unit, 27–28 Woburn Square, London WC1H QAA, UK. Email: [email protected]…
Beyond listening
More young children than ever before are spending their time in some form of early childhood service. But how do we know what they think about it? While there has been a move to take children's views into account more generally, very little attention has been given to listening to young children below the age of six or seven. This book is the first of its kind to focus on listening to young children, both from an international perspective and thr…
Beyond Listening
Political science (31 works) · Psychology (27 works) · Sociology (27 works) · Early Childhood Education and Development (16 works) · Law (16 works) · Economics (14 works) · Developmental psychology (11 works) · Social Policy and Reform Studies (11 works) · Medicine (10 works) · Public relations (10 works)