ABSTRACT
Relationships with Families in Early Childhood Education and Care radically challenges the role assigned to parents in neoliberal discussions of early childhood education and care, and presents new ways of thinking about relationships with families.
With contributions from international early childhood scholars and practitioners, this book includes outlooks of practitioners, families and children, particularly about the meanings they assign to relationships. Bringing together key understandings about how parent-partnerships can be understood, this book provides innovative examples of how to enact democratic partnerships with parents in diverse contexts.
Relationships with Families in Early Childhood Education and Care is an ideal text for ECEC practitioners and policy makers, trainers, graduate students and researchers.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter |13 pages
Introduction
part I|53 pages
Disrupting partnerships
chapter 1|12 pages
Parent-centred partnerships
part II|42 pages
Parent perspectives
chapter 6|11 pages
What early childhood educators need to know about fostering Black children's positive identification with Blackness
chapter 8|10 pages
Wait, watch and learn
chapter 9|11 pages
Centre partnerships through a Singaporean lens
part III|85 pages
Innovative enactment of partnerships