About the Editors and Contributors
Preface: Learning through many voices, Michael Reed and Alma Fleet
Introduction: Wondering and Wandering, Alan Pence and Janet Harvell
Section 1: Being Alongside Children
Chapter 1: Precocious children: Cultural priming by parents and others, Robert LeVine and Sarah LeVine
Chapter 2: Jenaplan and pedagogical tact: an alternative approach to engaging children, Jeannette Broer
Chapter 3: ‘A rising tide lifts all boats’ - A reflection on inclusive practice when working alongside visually impaired children, Leighton Reed.
Editorial provocations: Engaging readers and extending thinking, Janet Harvell and Alan Pence
Section 2: Those Who Educate
Chapter 4: Te Wai a Rona: The well-spring that never dries up: Whānau pedagogies and curriculum, Mere Skerrett and Jenny Ritchie
Chapter 5: It’s a new dawn, it’s a new day … developing an Early Years workforce for a 21st century China, Janet Harvell and Lixin Ren.
Chapter 6: ‘We’re still being dragged to be white’: Learning from Yolŋu ‘growing up’ their children in two worlds, Lyn Fasoli, Läwurrpa Maypilama, Anne Lowell, Yalŋarra Guyula, Rosemary Gundjarranbuy, Megan Yunupiŋu & Rebekah Farmer
Editorial provocations: Engaging readers and extending thinking, Alan Pence and Janet Harvell
Section 3: Embedding Families and Communities
Chapter 7: Indigenous Children in the Context of Family and Nationhood, Margo Greenwood, Roseann Larstone and Nicole Lyndsay.
Chapter 8: Cultural practices in child rearing in Tanzania and their potential in supporting responsive caregiving to young children, Josephine Pascal Ferla.
Chapter 9: The impact of policy, culture and family on early education provision in Sri Lanka: challenges and opportunities, Shanthi Wijesinghe.
Editorial provocations: Engaging readers and extending thinking, Janet Harvell and Alan Pence
Section 4: Working with Systems
Chapter 10: Systemic challenges for integration of ECDCE programmes with African cultures of early childhood socialization, Robert Serpell and Reuben Mashebe Mukela.
Chapter 11: Viewing the child holistically: The Experience of the National Policy for Early Childhood Development in Colombia, Constanza Liliana Alarcon Parraga, Adrianna Castro and Andrés Motta.
Chapter 12: Working from within to help educational systems evolve: An experience with Indigenous Education in Mexico, Robert G. Myers and Jose Francisco Martinez.
Editorial provocations: Engaging readers and extending thinking, Alan Pence and Janet Harvell.
Coda: Thinking Forward – Diversity and Context, Michael Reed and Alma Fleet
Biography
Alan Pence is UNESCO Co-Chair for Early Childhood Education, Care and Development (ECD) and Professor Emeritus, University of Victoria, Canada.
Janet Harvell is Course Leader of the Foundation Degree in Early Years and Senior Lecturer at the Department for Children and Families, School of Education, University of Worcester, UK
