Counter-professionalisation in collective childcare: The case of communities of care in Barcelona
Lara Maestripieri,
Raquel Gallego
Abstract:Post-industrial transformations have significantly reshaped how young children are cared for outside the family home. Among other factors, the labour market participation of young mothers and a concomitant wish for intensive mothering have led to more diversified childcare solutions for the under-threes. Collective childcare projects (CCPs) promote approaches that are based on a home-like care environment and are run by educators and parents who have usually not trained in formal institutions but who become pr… Show more
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