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Reconceptualizing Quality in Early Childhood Education, Care and Development

Understanding the Child and Community

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Editors:
  1. Zoyah Kinkead-Clark

    1. Early Childhood Education, The University of the West Indies, Mona, Kingston, Jamaica

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  2. Kerry-Ann Escayg

    1. Early Childhood Education, University of Nebraska-Omaha, Omaha, USA

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  • Challenges interpretations of best practice in early childhood education

  • Draws from global research to offer unique perspectives

  • Opens up new intellectual pathways for theoretical and cultural knowledge

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Table of contents (13 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxv
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  2. Reconceptualizing Quality: Perceptions of the Child

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. The Child as “Other”: The Duality of the Other and the Pedagogy of Care

      • Elena Nitecki, Helge Wasmuth
      Pages 3-23

    3. Paradigmatic Discourses: Reconceptualizing the Role of the Critical Paradigm and Revisiting the Image of the Child as a Social Agent

      • Darya (Dasha) Shalimo, John P. Portelli
      Pages 25-61

  6. Correction to: Reconceptualizing Quality in Early Childhood Education, Care and Development

    • Zoyah Kinkead-Clark, Kerry-Ann Escayg
    Pages C1-C1

  7. Back Matter

    Pages 289-300
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About this book

Recognizing the various ecological contexts that support children’s development while amplifying voices from across the globe, this book challenges narrow interpretations of quality and best practice.  Each author offers a unique perspective on issues germane to the field of early childhood education: perceptions of children, curriculum, teacher education, and play-based learning. An innovative, timely, and much-needed contribution, this book represents an inclusive collection of theoretical and cultural knowledge, as well as research. Such a diverse multicentric lens opens new intellectual pathways for authentic, reciprocal knowledge exchange, while ensuring that a reimagining of early childhood education remains at the core of our teaching practice, scholarship, and activism.  This book invites everyone to imagine, to dare to believe, to hope, and to act—in the interests of children, in the interests of communities and families, and in the moral precepts of equity, inclusion and justice.



Editors and Affiliations

  • Early Childhood Education, The University of the West Indies, Mona, Kingston, Jamaica

    Zoyah Kinkead-Clark

  • Early Childhood Education, University of Nebraska-Omaha, Omaha, USA

    Kerry-Ann Escayg

About the editors

Zoyah Kinkead-Clark is Senior Lecturer and coordinator of early childhood programmes at The University of the West Indies, Jamaica. As a researcher, she is particularly interested in understanding how young children are shaped by their ecological experiences within the home and wider community with the view to explore how educators can build on these in early years settings.

Kerry-Ann Escayg is an Assistant Professor of Early Childhood Education at the University of Nebraska-Omaha, USA. Dr. Escayg’s research interests are children and race, anti-racism in early childhood education, racial socialization, and qualitative research with children.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Reconceptualizing Quality in Early Childhood Education, Care and Development

  • Book Subtitle: Understanding the Child and Community

  • Editors: Zoyah Kinkead-Clark, Kerry-Ann Escayg

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-69013-7

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham

  • eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-69012-0Published: 10 June 2021

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-69015-1Published: 11 June 2022

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-69013-7Published: 09 June 2021

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XXV, 300

  • Number of Illustrations: 4 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Early Childhood Education, International and Comparative Education, Infancy and Early Childhood Development

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