Books in the Childhood Studies series

The chapters in this book have two goals: One provide the reader with an opportunity to engage with some of the problems that result from putting forward 'quality' as a dominant construct, and second to generate conversations and locations from diverse knowledges and multiple ways of being that could lead to the rethinking of quality.

This second edition of Reconceptualizing Early Childhood Education and Care is a foundational text that presents contemporary theories, debates, and political concerns regarding early education and child care around the globe.

This book offers a powerful, new road map for early childhood teacher preparation through a relational pedagogy that honors students' life experience and that leads to deep reflection and learning.

This book tells the story of activist teachers and the very young together in a play-based curriculum in a public school in Texas.

The pedagogical project discussed in Disrupting Gendered Pedagogies in the Early Childhood Classroom examines the tensions associated with one teacher's attempts to rethink gendered narratives and childhood sexuality in her own classroom.

Voices of Early Childhood Educators presents powerful, living stories of early childhood students and practitioners. Susan Bernheimer clearly shows the importance of their stories for understanding the challenges now facing our field, including valuable insights into new forms of resilience and development.

Inside the "Inclusive" Childhood Classroom: The Power of the "Normal" offers a critique of current practices and alternative view of inclusion.