Bücher der Reihe Changing Images of Early Childhood

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.

Featuring the work of leading scholar-practitioners, Visual Arts with Young Children raises critical questions about the situated nature of the visual arts and its education in early childhood.

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.

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.

"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.

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.

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.