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Magnus Andersen – Education Inquiry, 2024
This article examines how public welfare institutions in Denmark are reconfigured into knowledge factories. Since the 1990s, Denmark has sought to export "welfare" solutions as a way of extracting knowledge on social practices already happening in institutions of the welfare state for economic purposes. Through a case study of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, International Trade, International Educational Exchange, Child Care
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Edwards, Carolyn Pope; Cotton, Janice N.; Zhao, Wen; Muntaner-Gelabert, Jeronia – Young Children, 2010
In 1998 a group of American adoptive parents led by Jenny Bowen created Half the Sky Foundation (HTS) to provide nurturing care and education for children living in Chinese orphanages (known as children's welfare institutions). Jenny, a former screenwriter and film director, and her husband Richard wanted to ensure that the children still waiting…
Descriptors: Young Children, Foreign Countries, Professional Development, Child Welfare