1st Edition
Challenging the Intersection of Policy with Pedagogy
List of illustrations
List of acronyms
Volume editors’ acknowledgements
Series editors’ acknowledgements
Series editors, volume editors and contributors
Preface: Trawling muddy waters – Michael Reed and Alma Fleet
SECTION ONE: Being alongside children
Chapter 1: Pedagogical documentation: the intersection of children’s learning and prescribed systems and policy – Rhonda Livingstone and Catharine Hydon
Chapter 2: Conducting ethical professional inquiry alongside children: children as fellow researchers – Carla Solvason
Chapter 3: Educators experimenting with common world pedagogies – Cory Jobb, Kelly-Ann MacAlpine and Veronica Pacini-Ketchabaw
Editorial provocations: engaging readers and extending thinking – Leanne Gibbs
SECTION TWO: Those who educate
Chapter 4: Navigating complex systems – Angela Hodgkins and Michael Reed with Faraza Anderson, Karen Worrall, Mandy Ajmal and Charlotte Lenton
Chapter 5: A North American perspective on understanding and nurturing professional well-being in the early childhood workplace – Kate McCormick and Mary Benson
Chapter 6: Shaped by policy: the positioning of mentoring within the early years sector in Singapore – Doranna Wong, Fay Hadley and Manjula Waniganayake
Editorial provocations: engaging readers and extending thinking – Leanne Gibbs
SECTION THREE: Embedding families and communities
Chapter 7: Seeing over the wall: growing policy from learning with families in contexts Randa Khattar, Rachel Heydon, Emma Cooper and Karyn Callaghan
Chapter 8: Whose voice? balancing perspectives in children's language development in early childhood – Tim Gluyas and Michael Gasper
Chapter 9: Honoring family diversity: challenges of leading pedagogy in multi-ethnic societies: perspectives from South Africa – Hasina Ebrahim and Manjula Waniganayake
Editorial Provocations: engaging readers and extending thinking – Michael Gasper
SECTION FOUR: Working with systems
Chapter 10: Compliance in a landscape of complexity: regulation and educational leadership – Leanne Gibbs, Frances Press and Sandie Wong
Chapter 11: Exploring intersections between systems, policy and pedagogy: critical reflection on an emerging system in Morocco. – Caroline Jones, Mustapha Aabi and Mohamed Boufous
Chapter 12: Being seen and being changed: problematising the role of ‘quality’ Early childhood education in the global education reform movement – Elise Hunkin
Editorial Provocations: engaging readers and extending thinking – Michael Gasper
Coda: thinking forward – Alma Fleet and Michael Reed
Biography
Leanne Gibbs is a researcher and consultant in early childhood leadership and policy. She is a doctoral candidate at Charles Sturt University, Australia.
Michael Gasper is an early years consultant, trainer, coach, mentor and facilitator and works with the Centre for Research in Early Childhood, Birmingham, UK.
