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It aims at a clarification of the interrelationships between political and administrative government, the absence/presence of a pedagogical foundation, and the need for a code of ethics.  \nDesign/Approach/Methods: The overall approach is hermeneutic and combines interpretations of a narrative research project, a review of recent developments in ECEC in Denmark, and the search for a theoretical conceptualization of a pedagogical foundation for ECEC. Findings: ECEC as a pedagogical practice needs a pedagogical foundation. If a foundation is vivid and a clear reference for practice, a separate code of ethical conduct might be superfluous. Nevertheless, such a code can be indispensable if ECEC governance is outcome-oriented and reduces practice to technique.  \nOriginality/Value: The study includes a discussion of the central European tradition for human science pedagogy and argues for the relevance of insights from this tradition in pedagogical foundations for ECEC. The study combines an empirical study of knowledge at play in ECEC and of specific developments in Danish ECEC with original philosophical, pedagogical, and conceptual reflections and results in a more precise indication of the relationship between ECEC government, pedagogy, and ethics.  \nCorresponding author:  \nJan Jaap Rothuizen, VIA UC, Ceresbyen 24, Aarhus 8000, Denmark. Email: [jjr@via.dk](jjr@via.dk)  \nCreative Commons Non Commercial CC BY-NC: This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative  \nCommons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 License ([https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/)) which permits non-commercial use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access page ([https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage](https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage)).  \nKeywords  \nDenmark, ECEC, ethics, governance, human science pedagogy, pedagogical tact  \nDate received: 10 September 2021; revised: 6 December 2021, 13 January 2022, 30 March 2022; accepted: 5 April 2022  \nIntroduction  \nIn Denmark, there is a more than 100-year-old tradition for “Kindergarten.” The German“Kindergarten” is connected to the ideas of Fröbel (1782–1852) and child-centered reform pedagogy in general (Hygum, 2014; Ringsmose & Kragh-Müller, 2017; Rothuizen, 2018) . 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