Comparative Early Childhood Education Services

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xxxi

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2. Early Childhood Education Services: The Heart and Hearth of Communities; International Perspectives

   • Judith Duncan, Sarah Te One

   Pages 1-12

3. Mapping Parents’ Movements and Interaction: Reconceptualizing Parent Support

   • Judith Duncan, Sarah Te One, Maureen Thomas

   Pages 13-31

4. Theorizing Integrated Service Provision in Australia: Policies, Philosophies, Practices

   • Jennifer Sumsion, Frances Press, Sandie M. Wong

   Pages 33-55

5. Building Strengths in Families and Communities

   • Robyn Munford, Jackie Sanders, Bruce Maden

   Pages 57-77

6. Building Communities: Begins in the Early Years

   • Judith Duncan

   Pages 79-100

7. Family and Community Perspectives: Voices from a Qualitative Statewide Study in the Southwest United States

   • Jamie Patrice Joanou, Dawna Holiday, Beth Blue Swadener

   Pages 101-123

8. Beyond Heteronormativity: Hospitality as Curriculum

   • Debora Lee

   Pages 125-145

9. Creating Community through Connections in SPACE

   • Sarah Te One

   Pages 147-169

10. Disturbing Cultures of Incarceration: The Struggle for Normality and the Imprisoned Family

    • Liz Jones, Rachel Holmes, Maggie MacLure

    Pages 171-186

11. Collaborative Play as New Methodology: Co-constructing Knowledge of Early Child Development in the CHILD Project in British Columbia, Canada

    • Hillel Goelman, Jayne Pivik

    Pages 187-212

12. Conclusion: Reconceptualizing Early Education; Crossing Borders to Build Community

    • Sarah Te One, Judith Duncan

    Pages 213-224

13. Back Matter

    Pages 225-240

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This reconceptualizes the place of early childhood education within communities. It presents a shift in the lens of the teachers and management within early childhood services to incorporate new ways of working with, alongside, and in collaboration with family and the wider community.

• childhood
• childhood education
• children
• community
• education
• Familie
• methodology
• Nation
• participation
• service

"This book challenges an image of early childhood services that has come to dominate much of the international literature. That challenge is both welcome and necessary." - Alan Pence, UNESCO Chair for Early Childhood Education, Care, and Development; Professor, School of Child and Youth Care, University of Victoria; Director, Early Childhood Development Virtual University (ECDVU)

"Te One and Duncan's pedigree in kindergarten teaching, political advocacy, community development, research, and early childhood teacher education provides an impeccable background for inspiring a similar group of activist writers to question, challenge, critique, and trouble our beliefs, our policies, and our practices that currently form the pedagogies of early childhood education centres (ECEC) in the early twenty-first century. During the twentieth century early childhood education moved beyond its radical experiments into the mainstream of education provision by the state. But there are some troubling aspects of this shift. Te One and Duncan, editors of this volume, provide a case for a radical re-conceptualizing and rethinking of the place and role of ECEC in our society." - Helen May, professor, College of Education, University of Otago

• School of Māori, Social and Cultural Studies in Education, University of Canterbury College of Education, Christchurch, New Zealand

  Judith Duncan

• Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand

  Sarah Te One

Judith Duncan is an Associate Professor of Education at the University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand.

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