The Handbook of Early Childhood Research will provide a landmark overview of the field of early childhood research and will set an agenda for early childhood research into the future.

Table of Contents

• List of Figures
• List of Tables
• Notes on the Editors and Contributors
• 1 Early Childhood Research: An Expanding Field - Ann Farrell, Sharon Lynn Kagan and E. Kay M. Tisdall
• Part I Situating Early Childhood Research
• 2 Parenting and the Home Environment - Marisa Morin, Jennifer Glickman and Jeanne Brooks-Gunn
• 3 Group-Based Early Childhood Education and Care for Under-2-Year-Olds: Quality Debates, Pedagogy and Lived Experience - Carmen Dalli, E. Jayne White
• 4 Young Children in Their Local Communities - Bronwen Cohen, Marta Korintus
• Part II Theorizing Early Childhood Research
• 5 Participation, Rights and ‘Participatory’ Methods - E. Kay M. Tisdall
• 6 Where Am I? Position and Perspective in Researching Early Childhood Education - Peter Moss
• 7 Theorizing Identities in Early Childhood - Katrien De Graeve
• 8 Theorizing Young Children's Spaces - Lesley Anne Gallacher
• 9 Converting the Science of Early Human Development into Action: Closing the Gap Between What We Know and What We Do - Mary E. Young
• 10 Theoretical Insights from Neuroscience in Early Childhood Research - Mike Anderson, Corinne Reid
• 11 Understanding Systems Theory and Thinking: Early Childhood Education in Latin America and the Caribbean - Sharon Lynn Kagan, Maria Caridad Araujo and Analía Jaimovich, Yyannú Cruz Aguayo
• Part III Conducting Early Childhood Research
• 12 Ethics in Early Childhood Research - Ann Farrell
• 13 Longitudinal Research: Applications for the Design, Conduct and Dissemination of Early Childhood Research - Stephen R. Zubrick
• 14 Conducting Ethnographic Research in Early Childhood Research: Questions of Participation - Kristina Konstantoni, Marlies Kustatscher
• 15 Narrative Inquiry: Conducting Research in Early Childhood - D. Jean Clandinin, Janice Huber, Jinny Menon, M. Shaun Murphy and Cindy Swanson
• 16 A Conversation Analytic Approach to Research on Early Childhood - Jack Sidnell
• 17 Documentation in Early Childhood Research: Practice and Research Informing Each Other - Margaret Carr, Bronwen Cowie and Linda Mitchell
• 18 Understanding Complexity in Play Through Interpretivist Research - Elizabeth Wood
• 19 Econometrics and the Study of Early Childhood: A Guide for Consumers - Gordon Cleveland
• Part IV Applying Early Childhood Research
• 20 Contexts of Risk and Exploitation - Sibnath Deb, Anjali Gireesan
• 21 Children in Conflict Situations: Applying Childhood Research with a Focus on the Early Years - Claire O'Kane
• 22 Dual Language Learners - Eugene E. Garcia
• 23 Early Childhood Research in Africa: The Need for a Chorus of Voices - Alan Pence, Emily Ashton
• 24 Early Learning and Healthy Development in a Digital Age - Jason C. Yip, Michael H. Levine and Alexis R. Lauricella, Ellen Wartella
• 25 Using Early Childhood Research to Inform and Influence Public Policy: An Example from Brazil - Irene Rizzini, Malcolm Bush
• 26 Rethinking Epistemology and Methodology in Early Childhood Research in Africa - Auma Okwany, Hasina Banu Ebrahim
• 27 Cognitive Research in Developing Countries - Nirmala Rao, Jin Sun and Ying Wang
• Part V Considering the Future of Early Childhood Research
• 28 Social and Political Landscapes of Childhood - Helen Penn
• 29 Researching Technologies in Children's Worlds and Futures - Jackie Marsh
• 30 What Is the Future of Sustainability in Early Childhood? - Ingrid Pramling Samuelsson
• 31 Future Directions in Early Childhood Research: Addressing Next-Step Imperatives - Sharon Lynn Kagan, E. Kay M. Tisdall and Ann Farrell