Disrupting Early Childhood Education Research

Will Parnell is Associate Professor of Education and a pedagogical liaison to the Helen Gordon Child Development Center at Portland State University, USA. He also coordinates the master's in early childhood education for the Graduate School of Education's Curriculum and Instruction Department.Jeanne Marie Iorio is a Senior Lecturer in Early Childhood Education at Victoria University, Melbourne, Australia.

• Series Editor IntroductionNicola YellandForewordPeter MossChapter 1: Reaching Toward the PossibleJeanne Marie Iorio and Will ParnellSection 1: New Theoretical and Methodological ImaginingsChapter 2: Research as an ethic of welcome and relationship: Pedagogical documentation in Reggio Emilia, ItalyStefania GiamminutiChapter 3: Theorizing what it means to be pedagogical in (the) early years (of) teachingSandy Farquhar and Marek TesarChapter 4: Critiquing traditional colonial practices in teacher education: Interpreting normative practices through visual culture analysesRichard T. JohnsonChapter 5: Parents as Producers of Enduring Knowledge Through InquiryPaige M. Bray and Erin M. KenneySection 2: Democratizing the Research ProcessChapter 6: (Re)imagining Participant Observation with Preschool ChildrenAllison Sterling HenwardChapter 7: Words and Bodies: Reimagining Narrative Data in a Toddler ClassroomEmmanuelle N. FinchamChapter 8: "I am writing notes too": Rethinking children’s roles in ethnographic researchYsaaca D. AxelrodSection 3: Critical Issues in Early Childhood Research from New PerspectivesChapter 9: Current Playworld Research in Sweden: Rethinking the Role of Young Children and their Teachers in the Design and Execution of Early Childhood ResearchBeth Ferholt, Monica Nilsson, Anders Jansson and Karin AlnervikChapter 10: Imagining children’s strengths as they start schoolSue Dockett and Bob PerryChapter 11: "To Have or not to Have" at School: Action Research on Early Childhood Education in Galicia (Spain).Concepcion Sánchez-Blanco Chapter 12: One Test is Not Enough: Getting to Really Know Your StudentsSandra L OsorioList of ContributorsIndex

"A timely collection of conceptual and political importance, Disrupting Early Childhood Education Research reconfigures early childhood education methodologies in exciting, astute, and exceptional ways. Its authors show that it is possible to research differently."Veronica Pacini-Ketchabaw, Professor, School of Child and Youth Care, University of Victoria, Canada"This is an urgently needed collection of research and possibilities that asks enduring questions, explores new meanings with its findings, gathers and interprets data, and initiates new lines of inquiry. A study in Aotearoa, New Zealand, for example, is framed by both narrative inquiry and philosophy, opening the door for research that embraces identity and sense of place. Another research project, meanwhile, opens the doors and play yards for children to collaborate as active researchers. Imagine!"Elizabeth P. Quintero, Professor and Coordinator of Early Childhood Studies at California State University Channel Islands, USA