Collaborative Cross-Cultural Research Methodologies in Early Care and Education Contexts

ISBN-13: 9781138207912 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 216 str.

Opis

Drawing from an array of international scholars’ practical experiences, Collaborative Cross-Cultural Research Methodologies in Early Care and Education Contexts demonstrates how to conduct collaborative cross-cultural research and investigates the field’s nuances and dilemmas.

Spis treści

Foreword (Amita Gupta) Chapter 1: Introduction: Rethinking cross-cultural research methodology through a collaborative lens (Samara Madrid Akpovo, Mary Jane Moran, and Robyn Brookshire) Chapter 2: Fortuitous invitations, and possible ways forward: Early childhood education, care, and development (ECD) in the Majority World (Alan Pence) Chapter 3: Two decades of collaboration: Decolonizing cross-cultural research (Kagendo Mutua and Beth Blue Swadener) Chapter 4: Narrative methodologies: Challenging and elevating cross-cultural complexities (Sonja Arndt and Marek Tesar) Chapter 5: Collaboration as a healing and decolonizing research tool: The narratives of three early childhood researchers (Sapna Thapa, Samara Madrid Akpovo, and Debbie Young) Chapter 6: Critical reflections on the positionality of human rights educators working in diverse contexts
(Shabnam Koirala-Azad, Katie Zanoni, and Amy Argenal) Chapter 7: Complexities of insider-outsider positioning in a comparative study of early childhood teacher education programs (Anna Kirova, Christine Massing, Ailie Cleghorn, and Larry Prochner) Chapter 8: Researcher reflections on early childhood partnerships with immigrant and refugee communities (Rebecca Georgis, Rebecca Gokiert, and Anna Kirova) Chapter 9: Co-Constructed research design: Lessons on equivalency and teacher participation in a US-Italian professional development study (Mary Jane Moran, Robyn Brookshire, Chiara Bove, Piera Braga, and Susanna Mantovani) Chapter 10: Voices of children: Intercultural collaborations in understanding and documenting the meaning of children’s rights through dialogue and video (John Nimmo, Ana Marcilio, Angela Fowler, and Vashima Goyal) Chapter 11: "You, us and a bus" – Exploring analysis as cross-cultural collaboration in Fiji (Pauline Harris, Cynthia Brock, Alexandra Diamond, Elspeth McInnes, Bec Neill, Ufemia Camaitoga, and Mere Krishna) Chapter 12: Understanding intergenerational experiences of young children and older adults through cross-cultural and cross-disciplinary construction of knowledge (Simone DeVore, Jobita Anguisaca Muñoz, Anja Leoa, and Taylor McDarison)