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Zusatztext This book is timely! challenging and critical in its conceptualization of early childhood education in global contexts [...] Each of the chapters promotes the skills of inter-disciplinary critique! deconstruction! and disruption that are needed to think and see early childhood education in new and different ways [...] This book is informative! critical and inspiring for researchers in early childhood education. Informationen zum Autor Rosie Flewitt is Reader in Early Communication and Literacy in the Department of Learning and Leadership at the IOE, UCL’s Faculty of Education and Society, University College London, UK. Lynn Ang is Reader in Early Childhood in the Department of Learning and Leadership at the IOE, UCL’s Faculty of Education and Society, University College London, UK.A critical and reflective approach to research methods in early childhood education, linking diverse methodologies to theory and to examples of research in practice around the globe. Zusammenfassung Research Methods for Early Childhood Education takes an international perspective on research design and illustrates how research methods are inextricably linked to cultural and theoretical understandings of early childhood, young children’s competences and the purposes of education. The book offers a critical and reflective approach to established and innovative research methods in early childhood education, making links between diverse methodologies, methods and theory, with illustrative examples of research in practice. Each chapter addresses a specific methodological approach, linking the methodology to early childhood education with vignettes as examples of research practice in the global north, south, east and west, and offering practical examples and critical thinking around new theoretical understandings of early childhood across geographical and cultural contexts.The book critically examines:- the role of the researcher- conceptualisations of how research is undertaken; - how early childhood education is understood;- the often sensitive nature of conducting research with young children;- how young children can be included as active research participants. Throughout, the book emphasises ethical and methodological issues that arise from undertaking research in diverse social and cultural contexts. Further reading lists provide a selection of seminal and recent studies that have adopted each methodological approach. Inhaltsverzeichnis AcknowledgementsAbout the AuthorsList of Figures Glossary of Research Methods and ApproachesSeries Editor’s ForewordIntroduction Part I: Cross-Cutting Themes 1. Conceptualizing Early Education in a Global Context2. Ethics and Early Childhood Research3. Reviewing Literature as a Methodology Part II: Early Childhood Education Research Methods in Context 4. Participatory Research with Young Children5. Participatory Research with Adults6. Ethnographic Research in Early Childhood Education7. Multimodal Perspectives on Early Childhood Education8. Mixed Methods in Early Childhood Education Research9. Experimental Research and Randomized Control TestsConclusionReferencesIndex...
