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:
Manon Berset: [email protected] – Editor, UK, Europe, Africa, and the Middle East
Kirsty Murray: [email protected] – Editor, North & South America
Kanishka Jangir: [email protected] – Editor, Australia, New Zealand & Asia
Local Literacies in Early Childhood: Inequalities in Place, Policy and Pedagogy
1st Edition
By Helen Victoria Smith
May 31, 2023
This book contributes to current debates about the importance of early literacy and the different ways that literacy resources offer support to parents with young children. It sheds light on the impact of policy discourse and austerity measures on community resources designed to support children’s ...
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
April 29, 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 ...
Fröbel’s Pedagogy of Kindergarten and Play: Modifications in Germany and the United States
1st Edition
By Helge Wasmuth
December 13, 2021
This text provides a comprehensive analysis of historical archives, letters, and primary sources to offer unique insight into how Fröbel’s pedagogy of kindergarten and play has been understood, interpreted, and modified throughout history and in particular, as a consequence of it’s adoption in the ...
Multiliteracies and Early Years Innovation: Perspectives from Finland and Beyond
1st Edition
Edited
By Kristiina Kumpulainen, Julian Sefton-Green
June 30, 2021
Multiliteracies and Early Years Innovation: Perspectives from Finland and Beyond brings together internationally renowned scholars to investigate and reflect upon the significance of introducing multiliteracies in the education of children (0–8 years old) and the challenge of enhancing professional...
Early Childhood Curriculum in Chinese Societies: Policies, Practices, and Prospects
1st Edition
By Weipeng Yang, Hui Li
September 30, 2020
Although Chinese societies have generally become striking as the classic over-achievers in international measures of academic performance, there has been no specialised publication exploring early childhood curriculum in Chinese contexts. Through this book, readers will learn more about how the ...
Attainment and Executive Functioning in the Early Years: Research for Inclusive Practice and Lifelong Learning
1st Edition
By Hazel G. Whitters
June 30, 2020
Attainment and Executive Functioning in the Early Years combines knowledge and understanding from research with operational skills from practice in the early years. It presents the development of a sense of self which occurs between birth and five years, the effect of adverse childhood experiences,...
Collaborative Pathways to Friendship in Early Childhood: A Cultural-historical Perspective
1st Edition
By Megan Adams, Gloria Quinones
May 20, 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 ...
Facebook Mentoring and Early Childhood Teachers: The Controversy in Virtual Professional Identity
1st Edition
By Sharryn Clarke
April 28, 2020
This volume explores concepts of mentoring, leadership and issues faced by early childhood teachers. Foregrounded against inadequate leadership and mentoring training in this sector, this book looks at how mentoring is exercised through Facebook. Mentoring through Facebook provokes a strong sense ...
Dance-Play and Drawing-Telling as Semiotic Tools for Young Children’s Learning
1st Edition
By Jan Deans, Susan Wright
September 27, 2019
Investigating children’s learning through dance and drawing-telling, Dance-Play and Drawing-Telling 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 ...
An Empirical Approach to Preparing Children for Starting School: Exploring the Relationships between Parents, Practitioners and Teachers
1st Edition
By Karen Wickett
August 21, 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 10, 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 ...