Routledge Research in Early Childhood Education
About the Book Series
This series provides a platform for researchers to present their latest research and discuss key issues in Early Childhood Education.
Please send inquiries or proposals for this series to one of the following:
AnnaMary Goodall: [email protected]– Editor, UK, Europe, Africa, and the Middle East
Kirsty Hardwick: [email protected] – Editor, North & South America
Kanishka Jangir: [email protected] – Editor, Australia, New Zealand & Asia
The Yew Chung Approach to Early Childhood Education: Centering Emergent Curriculum, Child-Led Inquiry, and Multilingualism
1st Edition
By Stephanie C. Sanders-Smith, Sylvia Ya-Hsuan Yang, Kutasha Bryan-Silva
December 30, 2022
This volume details the Yew Chung Approach and the Twelve Values that exemplify the approach as a unique contribution to the field of early childhood education. The Yew Chung Education Foundation (YCEF) in Hong Kong is a nonprofit organization and a high-quality early childhood program that ...
International Perspectives on Digital Media and Early Literacy: The Impact of Digital Devices on Learning, Language Acquisition and Social Interaction
1st Edition
Edited
By Katharina J. Rohlfing, Claudia Müller-Brauers
May 06, 2022
International Perspectives on Digital Media and Early Literacy evaluates the use and impact of digital devices for social interaction, language acquisition, and early literacy. It explores the role of interactive mediation as a tool for using digital media and provides empirical examples of best ...
Collaborative Pathways to Friendship in Early Childhood: A Cultural-historical Perspective
1st Edition
By Megan Adams, Gloria Quinones
May 18, 2020
Early childhood is a time of wonder, excitement, adventure and learning. A time to experience social relations and friendships, and all of the emotions involved. The joy, and the excitement – of creating a common world with friends. A world of ‘what if’ and ‘as if’ moments that are accepted and ...
An Empirical Approach to Preparing Children for Starting School: Exploring the Relationships between Parents, Practitioners and Teachers
1st Edition
By Karen Wickett
August 20, 2019
This book presents an exploration of the beliefs held by parents, Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC) practitioners and teachers and their relationships during children’s transition to school. This exploration was prompted by the author’s observations that the relationships between ECEC ...
Challenging the School Readiness Agenda in Early Childhood Education
1st Edition
By Miriam B. Tager
June 07, 2019
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 ...
Narratives in Early Childhood Education: Communication, Sense Making and Lived Experience
1st Edition
Edited
By Susanne Garvis, Niklas Pramling
September 27, 2018
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 ...
An Interdisciplinary Approach to Early Childhood Education and Care: Perspectives from Australia
1st Edition
By Susanne Garvis, Matthew Manning
July 04, 2018
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 ...
Early Childhood Education for Muslim Children: Rationales and practices in South Africa
1st Edition
By Hasina Ebrahim
June 01, 2018
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 ...
Early Childhood Education Management: Insights into business practice and leadership
1st Edition
By Mary Moloney, Jan Pettersen
January 22, 2018
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 ...
Teaching for Active Citizenship: Moral values and personal epistemology in early years classrooms
1st Edition
By Joanne Lunn Brownlee, Eva Johansson, Susan Walker, Laura Scholes
January 03, 2018
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 ...
Early Years Second Language Education: International perspectives on theory and practice
1st Edition
Edited
By Sandie Mourão, Mónica Lourenço
August 15, 2016
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 ...
iPads in the Early Years: Developing literacy and creativity
1st Edition
By Michael Dezuanni, Karen Dooley, Sandra Gattenhof, Linda Knight
August 15, 2016
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 ...