The subject of this book is young children s emotional-social learning and development within early childhood care and education settings in Aotearoa-New Zealand. The focus on emotional complexity fills a gap in early childhood care and education research where young children are frequently framed narrowly as learners, ignoring the importance of emotional functioning and the feelings with which children make sense of themselves and the world. This book draws on original data in the form of narrative-like framed events to creatively illustrate the complexities in children s diverse ways of...
The subject of this book is young children s emotional-social learning and development within early childhood care and education settings in Aotearoa-...
This book presents the latest research on educational transitions from a variety of research traditions and practical contexts set in Australia, New Zealand, and several European countries. It examines, critically questions, and reshapes ideas and notions about children s transitions to school. The book is divided into five parts, the first two of which emphasise diversity and inclusion, with Part II focusing solely on the transition to school for children from Indigenous cultures. Part III explores the notion of continuity, which has been widely debated in terms of its role in the...
This book presents the latest research on educational transitions from a variety of research traditions and practical contexts set in Australia, Ne...
This edited collection provides an in-depth exploration of different aspects of contemporary early childhood literacy research and the implications for educational practice.
This edited collection provides an in-depth exploration of different aspects of contemporary early childhood literacy research and the implications fo...
This book offers a perspective on Education for Sustainable Development in Early Childhood (ESDEC) that is far removed from the `business as usual' notion of an extended, predominantly environmental, educational curriculum for preschools.
This book offers a perspective on Education for Sustainable Development in Early Childhood (ESDEC) that is far removed from the `business as usual' no...
This book studies the major characteristics of the social pedagogical approach to early childhood education and care. The Nordic tradition applies a social learning approach that emphasizes play, relationships and outdoor life, and presumes that learning takes place through children's participation in social interaction and processes.
This book studies the major characteristics of the social pedagogical approach to early childhood education and care. The Nordic tradition applies a s...
This book conceptualizes the lived spaces of infant and toddler early education and care settings by bringing together international authors researching within diverse theoretical frameworks. It highlights diverse ways of understanding the experiences of very young children by exposing the ways that the authors are grappling with the unknown. The work explores broadly the construct and meanings of lived spaces as relational spaces, interactional spaces, transitional spaces, curriculum spaces or pedagogical spaces operating within the social, physical and temporal environment of...
This book conceptualizes the lived spaces of infant and toddler early education and care settings by bringing together international authors resear...
This book makes an original contribution to researching child-community development so that those with specific interests in early childhood education have new theoretical tools to guide their research practices. The book explicitly theorises the use of digital visual tools from a cultural-historical perspective. It also draws upon a range of post-structuralist concepts for moving research and scholarship forward. Examples of visual technologies from research in different cultural communities are foregrounded.
In particular this book introduces contemporary methodologies for...
This book makes an original contribution to researching child-community development so that those with specific interests in early childhood educat...
This book provides an important compilation and synthesis of current work in transition to school research. The book focuses strongly on the theoretical underpinnings of research in transition to school. It outlines key theoretical positions and connects those to the implications for policy and practice, thereby challenging readers to re-conceptualize their understandings, expectations and perceptions of transition to school. The exploration of this range of theoretical perspectives and the application of these to a wide range of research and research contexts makes this book an important...
This book provides an important compilation and synthesis of current work in transition to school research. The book focuses strongly on the theore...
This book provides an up-to-date account of relevant early childhood policy and practice in five Chinese societies: the People's Republic of China or Mainland China, Hong Kong, Macao, Singapore, and Taiwan. It analyses how traditional Chinese values, Eastern and Western curricular approaches, and socio-political, economic, cultural and demographic changes influence current policies, services and practice. It addresses responses to global concerns about the excluded and disadvantaged, and about quality, and explains lessons from and for Chinese early childhood education. This book is the...
This book provides an up-to-date account of relevant early childhood policy and practice in five Chinese societies: the People's Republic of China or ...
