Contemporary perspectives on early childhood education /
edited by Nicola Yelland.
- xvi, 269 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contemporary perspectives on global and policy issues -- Extending possibilities and practices in early childhood education / Rethinking pedagogical practices in early childhood education: A multidimensional approach to learning and inclusion / Between two debts: Child and (inter)national development / Shaping the future: How human capital arguments about investment in early childhood are being (mis)used in poor countries / Reframing rights: Poverty discourses and children's lives in the United States / The displaced early childhood education in the postcolonial era of Hong Kong / National 'treasures': The Aotearoa New Zealand child / Investigating 'Quality' project: Opening possibilities in early childhood care and education policies and practices in Canada / Critical views in practice -- When words are scarce, but success depends on them: Composing in a Navajo kindergarten / Childhoods left behind? Official and unofficial basics of child writing / 'Improper' children / Like a wild thing': Analysing the 'deviant' competence of girls in home-preschool communications / At home with the future: Influences on young children's early experiences with digital technologies / When robots tell a story about culture. and children tell a story about learning / The early years research-policy-practice nexus: Challenges and opportunities / Nicola Yelland -- Hillevi Lenz Taguchi -- Erica Burman -- Helen Penn -- Valerie Polakow -- Gail Yuen -- Judith Duncan -- Alan Pence and Veronica Pacini-Ketchabaw -- Karen Gallas -- Anne Haas Dyson -- Liz Jones, Rachel Holmes, Christina MacRae and Maggie MacLure -- Michele Leiminer -- Joanna McPake and Lydia Plowman -- Marina Umaschi Bers -- Christine Stephen. Part 1. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. Part 2. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15.