Table of Contents

Acknowledgements
About the Authors
List of Figures
Glossary of Research Methods and Approaches
Series Editor’s Foreword
Introduction
Part I: Cross-Cutting Themes
1. Conceptualizing Early Education in a Global Context
2. Ethics and Early Childhood Research
3. Reviewing Literature as a Methodology
Part II: Early Childhood Education Research Methods in Context
4. Participatory Research with Young Children
5. Participatory Research with Adults
6. Ethnographic Research in Early Childhood Education
7. Multimodal Perspectives on Early Childhood Education
8. Mixed Methods in Early Childhood Education Research
9. Experimental Research and Randomized Control Tests
Conclusion
References
Index

Promotional Information

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.

About the Author

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.

Reviews

This book is novel. Written at a time when we need innovative approaches to the study of young children's lives, and during a period with a welcome and increased focus on childhoods in not just rich but also low and middle income countries. The book reflects critically on ECEC research methods of the past and likely future avenues connecting conceptualisations of childhood and young children with a wide range of research methodologies in ECEC. One of the book’s strengths is the fascinating vignettes of research in small and large-scale studies of diverse childhoods in the global north and south.
*Iram Siraj, Professor of Child Development and Education, University of Oxford, UK*