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Studying Babies and Toddlers

Relationships in Cultural Contexts

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  • © 2017

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Editors:
  1. Liang Li

    1. Faculty of Education, Monash University, Frankston, Australia

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  2. Gloria Quiñones

    1. Faculty of Education, Monash University, Frankston, Australia

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  3. Avis Ridgway

    1. Faculty of Education, Monash University, Frankston, Australia

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  • Presents original, contemporary research from early childhood academics
  • Employs Visual Narrative Methodology to bring to life and capture babies’ and toddlers’ relations
  • Offers fascinating insights into babies’ and toddlers’ lives across national and cultural boundaries

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Table of contents (14 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvi
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  2. A Wholeness Approach to Babies’ and Toddlers’ Learning and Development

    • Liang Li, Gloria Quiñones, Avis Ridgway
    Pages 1-12

  3. Toddler’s Relationships: A Matter of Sharing Worlds

    • Eva Johansson
    Pages 13-27

  4. The Babies’ Perspective: Emotional Experience of Their Creative Acts

    • Liang Li, Avis Ridgway, Gloria Quiñones
    Pages 29-48

  5. Spatial Perspective on Everyday Transitions Within a Toddler Group Care Setting

    • Niina Rutanen
    Pages 49-62

  6. New Mothers Transitioning to Employment: Impact on Infant Feeding Practices

    • Hilary Monk, Helen Hall
    Pages 63-80

  7. Well-Being of Mothers and Young Children in Contexts of Special Health Care

    • Julie Dillon-Wallace
    Pages 81-93

  8. Family Child/Day Care Homes as a Cultural Context or World for Babies and Toddlers

    • Holli Tonyan, Elena Paredes
    Pages 95-105

  9. Intergenerational Conflicts and Transmission of Values in Raising 0–2-Year-Old Chinese Babies

    • Yue-Juan Pan, Lina Sun, Sha-Sha Dong, Yue Tu
    Pages 107-122

  10. The ‘Work of the Eye’ in Infant Research: A Visual Encounter

    • E. Jayne White
    Pages 123-136

  11. Examining the Dynamics of Infant Reciprocity and Affective Fatherhood

    • Avis Ridgway, Gloria Quiñones, Liang Li
    Pages 137-156

  12. Applying the Tavistock Method of Observation and Group Reflection to the Study of Babies and Toddlers in Centre-Based Childcare

    • Linda J. Harrison, Belinda Friezer, Robyn Dolby
    Pages 157-173

  13. Transitory Moments as “Affective Moments of Action” in Toddler Play

    • Gloria Quiñones, Liang Li, Avis Ridgway
    Pages 175-192

  14. Relations of Dynamic Aspects of Motives in Infant-Toddler’s Play: Enhance Small Science Learning Experience

    • Shukla Sikder
    Pages 193-206

  15. Emotional Security and Play Engagement of Young Children in Dutch Child Centres: A Story of Explorative Research, Experiments and Educators Testing Hypotheses

    • Elly Singer
    Pages 207-223

  16. Back Matter

    Pages 225-226
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About this book

The editors of this book have brought together contributors from many parts of the world. As such, the book offers a truly diverse, international flavour reflecting a broad range of research on babies and toddlers. Examining examples from both Eastern and Western cultures, the book’s overarching focus is on relationships, yielding a coherence beneficial to early childhood researchers and educators alike. 
Employing visual methodologies to help bring the chapters to life, the varied research studies presented concern babies’ and toddlers’ relationships and cultural contexts. Taken together, they offer a unique opportunity to conceptualise the use of a wholeness approach for studying babies and toddlers – our youngest citizens. 

Editors and Affiliations

  • Faculty of Education, Monash University, Frankston, Australia

    Liang Li, Gloria Quiñones, Avis Ridgway

About the editors

Dr Liang Li is a senior lecturer at the Faculty of Education, Monash University, Australia. Research interests: family studies, cultural-historical studies, visual methodology, play and pedagogy, babies and toddlers development and education, teacher education, and children’s heritage language development. Contract: liang.li@monash.edu


Dr Gloria Quiñones is a lecturer at the Faculty of Education, Monash University, Australia. Research interests: cultural-historical, post-human perspectives and visual methodologies to understand baby and toddler education, teacher education, play and pedagogy, affect, place and space. Contact:  Gloria.quinones@monash.edu


Dr. Avis Ridgway is an adjunct research fellow at the Faculty of Education, Monash University, Australia.
Research interests: visual methodology; early childhood social, cultural and historical influences on learning; infant-toddler learning and play; teacher education. Contact: avis.ridgway@monash.edu


The co-authors Ridgway, Li and Quiñones recently published Early Childhood Pedagogical Play. A cultural – historical interpretation using visual methodology (2015). Springer Science Series.

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