Reconceptualizing Quality in Early Childhood Education, Care and Development: Understanding the Child and Community (Hardcover, 2021)

Part 1. Reconceptualising Quality: Perceptions of the Child.- Chapter 1. The child as “Other”: The Duality of the other and the pedagogy of care.- Chapter 2. The role of the critical paradigm and revisiting the image of the child as a social agent.- Part 2. Reconceptualising quality:  Classroom practices.- Chapter 3.  Every Learner Succeeds: Reconceptualising Quality in Early Childhood in the Organisation of the Eastern Caribbean States.- Chapter 4. Towards a balanced early-years curriculum: Awakening to foreign languages illustrated.- Chapter 5. Rethinking an Early Care and Education Program: Responding to Changes in Community Demographics.- Chapter 6. Indigenous children’s ‘ways of knowing’ ? exploring literacy learning for Indigenous preschool children in remote communities in Australia.- Part 3. Reconceptualising Quality: Teacher Education/Teacher training.- Chapter 7: Questioning quality in early childhood teacher education through the lens of culture.- Chapter 8. Knowing differently/Teaching differently: Transforming a Teacher Education Program.- Chapter 9. Management of Early Childhood Education Provision in Tanzania: Structure, Prospects and Challenges.- Part 4. Reconceptualising Quality: Play-based learning.- Chapter 10. An anti-racist perspective of play-based learning.- Chapter 11. The Case of a Self-Developed Community of Learners Outdoors: Benefits and Challenges for Stay-At-Home-Moms and Their Toddlers.