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Parents’ and caregivers’ perspectives on the benefits of a high-risk outdoor play space
Adult values, attitudes, behaviours, and beliefs are factors that shape childhood exposure to risk-taking experiences. This study examined the role...
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Exploring Caregiver Perceptions of a One-to-One Tablet Program for Kindergartners
The adoption of one-to-one device programs in early childhood classrooms is a relatively new phenomenon that is quickly becoming widespread. While...
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Teenage Play and Peer Interactions: Virtual, Social and Emotional Geographies
This chapter locates young people’s online and offline play within their virtual, social and emotional geographies. In an era of parent anxiety and...
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Development, Construct Validation, and Normalization of a New Early Childhood Self-Regulation Assessment Scale
Although there are many tools for assessing young children’s self-regulation according to varied conceptual definitions and purposes, the purpose of...
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Lifeworlds of 9 and 10-Year-Old Children Living and Learning in Singapore
The previous chapters of this book have provided detailed descriptions and analyses of various aspects of the lifeworlds of 9 and 10-year-old...
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Tiered Approach to Audience Development: Programming at The Artground
This chapter sets out to examine strategies and approaches to audience development that are employed by The Artground (TAG). Since its establishment...
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Early Childhood Education in the Philippines
Early childhood education initiatives in the Philippines aim to address the SDG 4 Education goals for inclusive and equitable quality education for...
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The Honeycomb of Early Childhood Development (ECD): A Big Picture Approach for Supporting Development and Education for Early Years
The power of education is far-reaching and universal, impacting people’s capacity for adaptation in our world today. Singapore’s dearth of natural...
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The Impact of COVID-19 on Families’ Home Literacy Practices with Young Children
The practice of shared book reading is a nurturing support for early language, literacy, and socio-emotional development within young children’s...
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The Influence of Nature on a Child’s Development: Connecting the Outcomes of Human Attachment and Place Attachment
Amidst a growing social movement to connect children to nature, little is understood about how children actually attach to place or the role of...
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Ensuring Child-Friendly Learning Environments in Nigerian Early Childhood Centers
All children have the right to a safe environment and the right to access quality education. A safe environment is the platform for all children to...
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Early Childhood Parental Philosophies and Practices in Urban India: Education, Care, and Well-Being of Young Children in a Society Shaped by Traditional and Global Forces
This chapter provides a description of the sociocultural background against which concepts such as childhood, motherhood, and adult–child continuity...
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Ensuring Child-Friendly Learning Environments in Nigerian Early Childhood Centers
All children have the right to a safe environment and the right to access quality education. A safe environment is the platform for all children to...
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Discourses/1, Australia: Whose Rights? The Child’s Right to Be Heard in the Context of the Family and the Early Childhood Service: An Australian Early Childhood Perspective
This chapter unpacks how children’s rights are positioned in Australian early childhood education services and asks readers to consider the...
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Learning Stories as an Assessment: A Case Study Exploring Its Local Application in China
Learning stories have been adopted as a form of assessment in early childhood education worldwide to assess children’s learning processes, learning...
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One Child, Only Hope? No More: The Evolution of China’s Population Control Policy and Its Impact on Parenting and Childcare
This chapter begins with a historical overview of China’s family planning policies, including the One-Child Policy, and the Universal Two-Child...
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Early Childhood Development in South Africa: Inequality and Opportunity
In South Africa the majority of young children are adversely impacted by a range of social and economic inequalities. Apartheid, along with the...
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The Influence of Nature on a Child’s Development: Connecting the Outcomes of Human Attachment and Place Attachment
Amidst a growing social movement to connect children to nature, little is understood about how children actually attach to place or the role of...
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‘For the Little Ones, the Best’: Australian Early Childhood Service and Policy Histories
Over time ideas about what is best for young children in Australia have changed significantly, but also not very much. The quotation in this chapter...
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‘An Audit on Self’—Positioning Ourselves for Researching with Young Families
The researcher and the researched are unavoidably situated in a complex mix of paradigms, and framed by discourse that shifts and morphs, depending...