Early Childhood Education and Care in a Global Pandemic : How the Sector Responded, Spoke Back and Generated Knowledge (Hardcover)

1. Preschool children’s ideas about the COVID-19 pandemic 2. Dora´s Doll got Sick - Preschool Children’s Wellbeing and Play during the COVID-19 Crisis. 3. Back to day one: the impact of COVID-19 lockdowns on the return to kindergarten in Australia. 4. Children’s transition between home and ECEC services: Innovative practices during the COVID-19 pandemic. 5. Children’s participation in education during COVID-19. 6. COVID-19 pandemic and centre-based services for children under-three: Pieces of evidence and insights from the Portuguese context. 7. Predictors for caregiver involvement in childcare, education and early learning in urban informal settlements during COVID-19. 8. Drop-off at the gate - challenges to parent-staff collaboration in Danish childcare in the era of COVID-19. 9. Education and Care: Expanding Traditional Pedagogies With(in) a Pandemic. 10. What does it mean to educate and care for children in Brazil in times of COVID-19 ? 11. Struggles at the frontline in pandemic times: Time to reimagine Early Childhood Care and Education in South Africa. 12. Distance Learning in Cameroon: Case Study of Private Nursery School Teachers' Experiences and Challenges Amidst COVID-19 Lockdown 13. Politics and Practices of the New Normal: What are Preschool Teachers’ Experiences during the COVID-19 Pandemic in Turkey? 14. The role of the Australian Education Union - Victoria in supporting early childhood educators during a global pandemic: Tensions, challenges and opportunities for the profession. 15. A ‘Quint-Essential(ised)’ ECE workforce: COVID-19 and the Exploitation of Labour. Afterword