TY - BOOK AU - Yelland,Nicola TI - Contemporary perspectives on early childhood education SN - 033523786X AV - LB1139.23 .C66 2010 U1 - 372.21 22 PY - 2010/// CY - Maidenhead, Berkshire PB - Open University Press KW - Early childhood education N1 - 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 ER -