Books in the Changing Images of Early Childhood series

Bringing together scholarship and examples from practice, this book explores ways in which early childhood curriculum ¿ including classroom practices and community contexts ¿ can more actively engage with a range of social justice issues, democratic principles, and anti-oppressive practices.

Bringing together scholarship and examples from practice, this book explores ways in which early childhood curriculum - including classroom practices and community contexts - can more actively engage with a range of social justice issues, democratic principles, and anti-oppressive practices.

Found in Translation: Connecting Reconceptualist Thinking with Early Childhood Education Practices highlights the relationships between reconceptualist theory and classroom practice.

Meaning Making in Early Childhood Research asks readers to rethink research in early childhood education through qualitative research practices reflective of arts-based pedagogies.

Unsettling the Colonial Places and Spaces of Early Childhood Education uncovers and interrogates some of the inherent colonialist tensions that are rarely acknowledged and often unwittingly rehearsed within contemporary early childhood education.

Disrupting Early Childhood Education Research critically interrogates the traditional foundations of early childhood research practices to disrupt the status quo through imaginative, cutting-edge research in diverse U.S. and international contexts.

Disrupting Early Childhood Education Research critically interrogates the traditional foundations of early childhood research practices to disrupt the status quo through imaginative, cutting-edge research in diverse U.S. and international contexts.

Unsettling the Colonial Places and Spaces of Early Childhood Education uncovers and interrogates some of the inherent colonialist tensions that are rarely acknowledged and often unwittingly rehearsed within contemporary early childhood education.

Meaning Making in Early Childhood Research asks readers to rethink research in early childhood education through qualitative research practices reflective of arts-based pedagogies.

"Early Childhood Qualitative Research" presents a collection of studies and essays that represent the work being done in early childhood qualitative studies.

Young Children, Pedagogy and the Arts is an innovative text that describes practices and research that cross all five strands of the arts¿visual, drama, music, dance, and mediäand illuminates ways of understanding children and their arts practices that go beyond the common traditions.

Young Children, Pedagogy and the Arts is an innovative text that describes practices and research that cross all five strands of the arts¿visual, drama, music, dance, and mediäand illuminates ways of understanding children and their arts practices that go beyond the common traditions.

Drawing from Foucault's notion of power-knowledge-resistance and feminist poststructuralism to offer a re-theorisation of parent-child conflict that takes into account relationships between the individual and society, this text considers how race, class, gender and age interact with daily domestic practice to produce parent-child conflict.

To care and educate our young children we must understand and listen to them. Childhood and (Post) Colonization opens the door to the effects of intellectual, education, and economic colonization of young children throughout the world.

Drawing from the literature on ability, class, culture, ethnicity, gender, languages, race, and sexual orientation, this book presents a forward-looking account of how diversity could improve the educational experience of children from birth to age three.

Drawing from the literature on ability, class, culture, ethnicity, gender, languages, race, and sexual orientation, this book presents a forward-looking account of how diversity could improve the educational experience of children from birth to age three. It is aimed at those studying and working with young children.

"Early Childhood Qualitative Research" presents a collection of studies and essays that represent the work being done in early childhood qualitative studies.

Technologies are dramatically changing early childhood education in the twenty-first century, as well as the face of childhood itself. This book provides young children with a myriad of possible activities and explorations. It looks at how we can explain and understand the nature of these differences and explore their implication for education.

Presents an appraisal of child development, exploring how young children make sense of the politics of feminine and masculine, and how they interpret and perform gender every day. This study challenges the usefulness of existing parameters for assessing and describing the development of children in early education settings.