Contemporary perspectives on early childhood education / edited by Nicola Yelland.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Part 1. Contemporary perspectives on global and policy issues -- 1. Extending possibilities and practices in early childhood education / Nicola Yelland -- 2. Rethinking pedagogical practices in early childhood education: A multidimensional approach to learning and inclusion / Hillevi Lenz Taguchi -- 3. Between two debts: Child and (inter)national development / Erica Burman -- 4. Shaping the future: How human capital arguments about investment in early childhood are being (mis)used in poor countries / Helen Penn -- 5. Reframing rights: Poverty discourses and children's lives in the United States / Valerie Polakow -- 6. The displaced early childhood education in the postcolonial era of Hong Kong / Gail Yuen -- 7. National 'treasures': The Aotearoa New Zealand child / Judith Duncan -- 8. Investigating 'Quality' project: Opening possibilities in early childhood care and education policies and practices in Canada / Alan Pence and Veronica Pacini-Ketchabaw -- Part 2. Critical views in practice -- 9. When words are scarce, but success depends on them: Composing in a Navajo kindergarten / Karen Gallas -- 10. Childhoods left behind? Official and unofficial basics of child writing / Anne Haas Dyson -- 11. 'Improper' children / Liz Jones, Rachel Holmes, Christina MacRae and Maggie MacLure -- 12. Like a wild thing': Analysing the 'deviant' competence of girls in home-preschool communications / Michele Leiminer -- 13. At home with the future: Influences on young children's early experiences with digital technologies / Joanna McPake and Lydia Plowman -- 14. When robots tell a story about culture. and children tell a story about learning / Marina Umaschi Bers -- 15. The early years research-policy-practice nexus: Challenges and opportunities / Christine Stephen.

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