EECERA Collection of Research in Early Childhood Education
About the Book Series
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.
Innovative Approaches in Early Childhood Mathematics
1st Edition
Edited
By Oliver Thiel, Bob Perry
June 30, 2021
The chapters in this book investigate and reflect on many of the issues and challenges raised by the current trends and tensions in early childhood mathematics education. They emanate from seven countries – Australia, Northern Ireland, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, and Switzerland.Ever since ...
Working with Parents and Families in Early Childhood Education
1st Edition
Edited
By Ute Ward, Bob Perry
December 18, 2020
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 ...
Perspectives from Young Children on the Margins
1st Edition
Edited
By Jane Murray, Colette Gray
September 30, 2020
In spite of our apparently connected global environment, people are becoming less connected. Digital communication leads to fewer face-to-face engagements, and many young children are separated from their parents for extended periods. The post-truth phenomenon has resulted in mistrust between ...
Early Childhood Care and Education at the Margins: African Perspectives on Birth to Three
1st Edition
Edited
By Hasina Ebrahim, Auma Okwany, Oumar Barry
October 02, 2019
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 ...
Early Childhood Education and Change in Diverse Cultural Contexts
1st Edition
Edited
By Chris Pascal, Tony Bertram, Marika Veisson
October 02, 2019
Change is now a dominant feature of early childhood systems around the globe and many countries are currently facing significant economic, social and political developments that bring additional challenges that teaching and learning practices need to be able to respond to in a positive and ...
Vygotsky’s Theory in Early Childhood Education and Research: Russian and Western Values
1st Edition
Edited
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 ...






