Due to the demand for flexible working hours and employees who are available around the clock, the time patterns of childcare and schooling have increasingly become a political issue. Comparing the development of different 'time policies' of half-day and all-day provisions in a variety of Eastern and Western European countries since the end of World War II, this innovative volume brings together internationally known experts from the fields of comparative education, history, and the social and political sciences, and makes a significant contribution to this new interdisciplinary field of comparative study.

Due to the demand for flexible working hours and employees who are available around the clock, the time patterns of childcare and schooling have increasingly become a political issue. Comparing the development of different "time policies" of half-day and all-day provisions in a variety of Eastern and Western European countries since the end of World War II, this innovative volume brings together internationally known experts from the fields of comparative education, history, and the social and political sciences, and makes a significant contribution to this new interdisciplinary field of comparative study.

Diese Textsammlung prasentiert sich als Beitrag zu einer interdisziplinaren und international vergleichenden Klarung des heute inflationar gebrauchten Begriffs Diversitat. Vorgestellt werden theoretische Ansatze und Ergebnisse empirischer Untersuchungen zur Wahrnehmung und zu Strategien des "Management" von Diversitat im urbanen und im institutionellen Rahmen sowie in der virtuellen Welt der Medien."