This series provides a platform for researchers to present their latest research and discuss key issues in Early Childhood Education.
This book is a research-based text about animals in early childhood education for researchers, academics and postgraduate students. It includes philosophical, historical and socio-political ideas about animals in early childhood education. Written from a pragmatic perspective, the author outlines…
Hardback – 2018-04-01
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Routledge Research in Early Childhood Education
Investigating children’s learning through dance and drawing telling, Dance-Play and Drawing as Semiotic Tools for Young Children’s Learning provides a unique insight into how these activities can help children to critically reflect on their own learning. Promoting the concept of dance and drawing…
Hardback – 2018-02-22
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Routledge Research in Early Childhood Education
Over the past few decades, a growing body of literature has developed which examines children’s perspectives of their own lives, viewing them as social actors and experts in their understanding of the world. Focusing specifically on narratives, this unique and timely book provides an analysis of…
Hardback – 2017-05-11
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Routledge Research in Early Childhood Education
Challenging the normative paradigm that school readiness is a positive and necessary objective for all young children, this book asserts that the concept is a deficit-based practice that fosters the continuation of discriminatory classifications. Tager draws on findings of a qualitative study to…
Hardback – 2017-03-24
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Routledge Research in Early Childhood Education
An Interdisciplinary Approach to Early Childhood Education and Care explores early childhood education and care in Australia from a variety of perspectives, highlighting the complexity of working within the field and the need for a truly interdisciplinary approach. It argues that only a holistic…
Hardback – 2017-02-02
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Routledge Research in Early Childhood Education
Early Childhood Education for Muslim Children foregrounds the marginalised perspective of Muslim children aged three to five and examines how they are cared for and educated in centre-based provision in two provinces in post-apartheid South Africa. Both theological and social science perspectives…
Hardback – 2016-12-07
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Routledge Research in Early Childhood Education
The Early Childhood Education sector around the world is constantly changing, whether because of the unprecedented demand for ECE services globally, accelerated social change, or the introduction of pedagogical and regulatory practices. Based upon empirical inquiry, Early Childhood Education…
Hardback – 2016-08-23
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Routledge Research in Early Childhood Education
Digital devices, such as smart phones and tablet computers, are becoming commonplace in young children’s lives for play, entertainment, learning and communication. Recently, there has been a great deal of focus on the educational potential of these devices in both formal and informal educational…
Paperback – 2016-08-16
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Routledge Research in Early Childhood Education
The age for early language learning has dropped dramatically in the past decade to include children under 6 years old, yet very little published research exists to support the implementation of such programmes. Drawing on a synthesis of theory, research and practice, this edited volume makes an…
Paperback – 2016-08-16
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Routledge Research in Early Childhood Education
There is strong social and political interest in active citizenship and values in education internationally. Active citizenship requires children to experience and internalize moral values for human rights, developing their own opinions and moral responsibility. While investment in young children…
Hardback – 2016-06-28
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Routledge Research in Early Childhood Education
This book discusses how consultations with young children could signal a change of thinking about how children might influence policy and shape the development of a child-friendly state. While the consultations in this study were germane to political decisions, they took place as multi-modal…
Paperback – 2016-03-03
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Routledge Research in Early Childhood Education