@article{Vallberg Roth_2014, title={Nordic Comparative Analysis of Guidelines for Quality and Content in Early Childhood Education}, volume={8}, url={https://nordiskbarnehageforskning.no/index.php/nbf/article/view/104}, DOI={10.7577/nbf.693}, abstractNote={<span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;"> </span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt 36pt; text-align: justify; tab-stops: 65.2pt 130.4pt 195.6pt 260.8pt 326.0pt 391.2pt;"><span style="line-height: 115%; font-family: "Times New Roman Italic","serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;" lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-family: Batang;"> </span></span></p><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;"> </span><p>The article is based on a project intended to further develop understanding of similarities and differences in Nordic binding guidelines and non-binding guidance for content and quality in early childhood education. The study is of a descriptive and comparative nature and the process is based on a research tradition connected to curriculum studies. Both variation and standardisation emerge in the comparative analysis with regard to content construction. Quality is expressed and may be interpreted as operationalised as both structure and process. In relation to the study results, quality may be interpreted as primarily oriented towards institutions, activities and secondarily towards individuals. Quality is consistently related to learning (lifelong learning) and is more linear and oriented towards goal-rationality than non-linear.</p><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;"> </span><div id="ftn1" style="mso-element: footnote;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;"> </span><p class="footnotetext" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" lang="EN-US"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></span></p></div><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;"> </span>}, journal={Nordisk barnehageforskning}, author={Vallberg Roth, Ann-Christine}, year={2014}, month={sep.} }