ABSTRACT

Provision of education for children under five has recently become a political concern. At the same time, this relatively small field has been attracting increased research attention, with many early years practitioners seeking routes to initial and higher degrees. This book offers essential guidance for researchers and newcomers to the field, outlining opportunities in research as well as useful, sensitive and appropriate methods for researching childhood education.

part |2 pages

PART I Changing concepts and methods in early years education research

chapter 1|17 pages

Researching early childhood education

chapter 2|9 pages

Constructing childhoods

chapter 3|14 pages

Research paradigms: ways of seeing

part |2 pages

PART II Early childhood education: changing research practice

part |2 pages

PART III Early childhood education research in action

part |2 pages

PART IV Current policy, perspectives and practice in the field