(Book Review) International Perspectives on the History of Early Childhood Education

During the COVID-19 pandemic, Canada's reliance on early childhood education (ECE 1 ) came into desperate focus.What we saw were families grappling with the challenges of caring for their children in their own homes while simultaneously accommodating their own forty-hour (or more) work weeks.Our own Canadian history of ECE left us starkly facing the disjoint between our idealized family unit and the demand of a capitalist economy.In Kasschke, Franke-Meyer, and Braches-Chyrek's (eds.)new volume in the History of Early Childhood Education series, the team has turned their critical gaze toward international perspectives on the early childhood education profession.The series this volume belongs to takes ECE in Germany as its starting point.Here, the overarching goal of the new work, a collection of eleven chapters, is to extend the central conversation past the German borders to consider how other countries have responded to early childhood education and care.Said differently this is a work that asks: how do ECE responses in countries such as Austria, the United States or Italy, complexify and res-