List of illustrations
Series editors, volume editors and contributors
Preface: entering contested waters by ALMA FLEET AND MICHAEL REED
Volume editors’ acknowledgements
Series editors’ acknowledgements
SECTION ONE: Being alongside children
Chapter 1: Playing with digital drawing – Janet Robertson
Chapter 2: Preschool teachers being people alongside young children: The development of adults' relational competence in playworlds – Beth Ferholt, Monica Nilsson and Robert. Lecusay
Chapter 3: Playing in and through the musical worlds of children – Margaret S. Barrett
Editorial Provocations: Engaging readers and extending thinking – Sophie Alcock
SECTION TWO: Those who educate
Chapter 4: Observing and interpreting young children playing: reflecting on feelings – Sophie Alcock
Chapter 5: Growing playful pedagogy: a case study of educational change – Alma Fleet and Mel Kemenyvary
Chapter 6: The role of context within Early Childhood Education in Ireland – Margaret O’DonoghueEditorial Provocations: Engaging readers and extending thinking – Sophie Alcock
SECTION THREE: Embedding families and communities
Chapter 7: Recognising and responding to family funds of knowledge - Helen Hedges, Maria Cooper, Tamar Weisz-Koves
Chapter 8: Opening the school gates: facilitating after-school play in school grounds – Marianne Mannello, Mark Connolly, Sandra Dumitrescu, Cheryl Ellis, Chantelle Haughton, Sian Sarwar, Jacky Tyrie
Chapter 9: Pedagogical documentation as ‘agora’: why it may be viewed as a form of citizenship for children, parents, and communities – Elisabetta Biffi
Editorial Provocations: Engaging readers and extending thinking – Sophie Alcock
SECTION FOUR: Working with systems
Chapter 10: Spinning the kaleidoscope: A conversation around play, learning, policies, and systems – Alma Fleet and Michael Reed
Chapter 11: Influences of macrosystems in children’s spaces; Regaining the paradigm – Mandy Andrews
Chapter 12: Micro-policies of adult-child joint play in the context of the Finnish ECEC system – Maiju Paananen and Anna Pauliina Rainio
Editorial Provocations: Engaging readers and extending thinking – Nicola Stobbs
Coda: Thinking forward – Michael Reed and Alma Fleet
Biography
Sophie Alcock is senior lecturer in Education at the University of Wellington, New Zealand.
Nicola Stobbs is a senior lecturer at the Department for Children & Families, University of Worcester, UK.
