Written in association with the European Early Childhood Education Research Association (EECERA), titles in this series will reflect the latest developments and most current research in early childhood education on a global level. Feeding into and supporting the further development of the discipline as an exciting and urgent field of research and high academic endeavour, the series carries a particular focus on knowledge creation and reflection, which has huge relevance and topicality for those at the front line of decision making and professional practice in early years services.
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By Ute Ward, Bob Perry
May 29, 2019
This book reports initiatives to listen to parents and families, to ascertain what families believe and do as they seek to engage collaboratively with their children’s educators, and what educators and educational systems might do to facilitate and/or establish barriers to such engagement. Parental...
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By Hasina Ebrahim, Auma Okwany, Oumar Barry
September 10, 2018
The importance of early childhood care and education (ECCE) in the lives of very young children is gaining increasing attention around the globe and yet there is a persistent lack of diverse knowledge perspectives on this critical phase. This stems from dominant Eurocentric framings of ...
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By Nikolay Veraksa, Sonja Sheridan
March 01, 2018
Drawing upon in-depth analyses of Lev Vygotsky’s theories of early childhood and investigating the ways in which his ideas are reflected in contemporary educational settings, this book brings into sharp relief the numerous opportunities for preschool learning and development afforded by Vygotskian ...