ABSTRACT

Drawing from an array of international scholars’ practical experiences, Collaborative Cross-Cultural Research Methodologies in Early Care and Education Contexts demonstrates how to conduct collaborative cross-cultural research and investigates the field’s nuances and dilemmas. The book focuses on rich, real-life attempts to negotiate and develop culturally sensitive theoretical and conceptual frameworks, equivalent studies, and systems of relationships across distances, languages, ethics, and practices. The models presented consider the possible political and moral implications for all participants in cross-cultural research endeavors, including issues of race, colonization, immigration, indigenous populations, and more.

chapter 1|12 pages

Introduction

Rethinking Cross-Cultural Research Methodology through a Collaborative Lens

part I|66 pages

Collaborative Cross-Cultural Research as a Situated Activity

chapter 2|19 pages

Fortuitous Invitations, and Possible Ways Forward

Early Childhood Education, Care, and Development (ECD) in the Majority World

chapter 3|14 pages

Two Decades of Collaboration

Decolonizing Cross-Cultural Research

chapter 4|16 pages

Narrative Methodologies

Challenging and Elevating Cross-Cultural Complexities

chapter 5|16 pages

Collaboration as a Healing and Decolonizing Research Tool

The Narratives of Three Early Childhood Researchers

part III|76 pages

Multi-Modal and Multi-Vocal Illuminations of Lived Experience

chapter 9|19 pages

Co-Constructed Research Design

Lessons on Equivalency and Teacher Participation in a US–Italian Professional Development Study

chapter 10|18 pages

Voices of Children

Intercultural Collaborations in Understanding and Documenting the Meaning of Children’s Rights through Dialogue and Video

chapter 11|18 pages

“You, Us and a Bus”

Exploring Analysis as Cross-Cultural Collaboration in Fiji