Part 1: Global Childhoods
Editor¿s Introduction - Nicola J. Yelland, Lacey Peters, Nikki Fairchild, Marek Tesar, & Michelle S. Pérez
Part 1 Introduction - Michelle S. Pérez
Chapter 1: The Descendants of the Gods: Maori Indigenous Childhoods - Mere Skerrett
Chapter 2: [Re]Imagining Childhoods in the Global South: South African Experiences - Bekisizwe S. Ndimande
Chapter 3: Globalization and (Un)shifting Notions of Childhood: Middle-Class Parents in and from Urban India Conceptualize Childhood in a Climate of Globalization - Amita Gupta
Chapter 4: Childhoods and Politics in (Post)socialist Societies - Zsuzsa Millei, Nikolai Jeffs, Petar Odak, Iveta Silova, Anikó Varga Nagy, & Anel Kulahmetova
Chapter 5: Postcolonial Childhoods: Historical and Contemporary Notions - Radhika Viruru & Nazneen Askari
Chapter 6: A Study of 'Learning through Play' in Mainland China, Hong Kong and Singapore Kindergartens Using Asia as Method - Luting Zhou, Erica Burman, & Susie Miles
Chapter 7: Children¿s Geographies Beyond ¿Agency¿ - Peter Kraftl, Sarada Balagopalan, & Gabriela Tebet
Chapter 8: Relational Mapping and Global Childhoods - Iris Duhn, Karen Malone, & Linda Knight
Chapter 9: Pláticas on Early Childhood and Bilingual Education: Reckoning with the Past to Envision the Future - Paty Abril-Gonzalez & Michelle Salazar Pérez
Part 2: Researching Global Childhoods
Part 2 Introduction - Marek Tesar
Chapter 10: The Historical Emergence of Modern Childhood - Jonas Qvarsebo
Chapter 11: Philosophy of Childhood: Style, Philosophy, and the 'Post-It' of Global Childhoods - Andrew Gibbons & Marek Tesar
Chapter 12: Rethinking Global Sociology of Childhoods - Sonja Arndt
Chapter 13: Posthumanism/New Materialism: the Child, Childhood and Education - Hillevi Lenz Taguchi & Christine Eriksson
Chapter 14: Research Methodologies with Young Children: Muddling in the Middle - Kylie Smith
Chapter 15: Black Geographies in Early Childhood Studies - Fikile Nxumalo, Nnenna Odim, & Alison Smith
Chapter 16: Figuring Gender in Early Childhood with Animal Figurines: Pursuing Tentacular Stories about Global Childhoods in the Anthropocene - Jayne Osgood & Sid Mohandas
Chapter 17: Krishnamurti's Insights for Global Childhood Education and Research - Marina Basu
Chapter 18: Ni niño, ni ruiseñor/Not a child, nor a mockingbird: Decolonisation of Childhoods in Abya Yala - ximena galdames castillo
Chapter 19: Architecting Process-Oriented Research Methodologies in Early Childhood Education - Nikki Rotas
Part 3: Contemporary Childhoods
Part 3 Introduction - Nicola J. Yelland
Chapter 20: Childhoods for the Common Good: The Educational Project of Reggio Emilia - Stefania Giamminuti
Chapter 21: (R)existence in the Borderlands: Immigrant Children in the United States - Angeles Maldonado & Beth Blue Swadener
Chapter 22: Homeless and Street Connected Childhoods: Contemporary Challenges within International Convention Frameworks - Dimitrina Kaneva & Su Corcoran
Chapter 23: Multimodal Childhoods: Lifeworlds and Lived Experiences of Young Children in Pedagogic Cultures - Lorna Arnott & Nicola Yelland
Chapter 24: Learning with Place: Innovative Pedagogies for Climate Action - Jeanne Marie Iorio & Catherine Hamm
Chapter 25: The Every/day Materialities of Children¿s School Lives - Casey Meyers
Chapter 26: Children After the Animal Turn: Child-animal Relations and Multispecies Scholarship - Pauliina Rautio, Tuure Tammi, & Riikka Hohti
Chapter 27: Play, Popular Culture and the Aesthetics of Play: Children as Cultural Critics - Haeny S. Yoon
Chapter 28: Minds Nested in Nature - Jay Griffiths
Part 4: Pedagogies and Practice
Part 4 Introduction - Nikki Fairchild
Chapter 29: The Importance of Early Childhood Education and Care for Hungarian Ethnic Minority Groups in Romania, Slovak Republic and Serbia - Eva Mikuska
Chapter 30: Untidying Child Development with a Picturebook: Disrupting Colonising Binary Logic in Teacher Education - Karin Murris, Rose-Anne Reynolds, Heloisa da Silva, & Luzia Aparecida de Souza
Chapter 31: Seeing Beyond: Perspectives of Black and Minority Ethnic Children in English ECEC - Nikki Fairchild & Vini Lander
Chapter 32: On Being Led (astray) by (feral) Materials: Posthuman Research Practice in an outdoor ECEC Atelier - Lucy Hill
Chapter 33: Construction of children's cultural identity in Chinese context: Understanding young children's perspectives via popular picture books - Fengling Tang, Pan Yue-Juan, & Niwen Wu
Chapter 34: The Norwegian #barnehageopprør2016 (the 2016 kindergarten riots): Renewed acts of political and professional minor gestures - Ann Merete Otterstad & Constanse Elmenhorst
Chapter 35: From Policy to Pedagogy: Image of the Singapore Child - Wu Pinhui Sandra
Chapter 36: Social Inequality in the Early Childhood Care and Education Practice in Nigeria - Hannah Olubunmi Ajayi
Chapter 37: Quality Early Childhood Care and Education (ECCE) in India: Where do we stand? - Reetu Chandra
Part 5: Creating Communities for Global Children
Part 5 Introduction - Lacey Peters
Chapter 38: Unpacking Children and Childhood in Indonesian Preschool Policy Documents - Ali Formen, Hani Yulindrasari, & Vina Adriany
Chapter 39: Infants and Young Children in Alternative Care - Eunice Lumsden
Chapter 40: Pedagogic Resistance: Children's Play as Political Agency - Maria Persons
Chapter 41: Children Walking Diverse Worlds: Facing the Trouble of a Settler Colonial Past and Present - Claudia Diaz-Diaz
Chapter 42: Fostering Community and Environmental Sustainability in Early Childhood: A Project on Living Things in a Preschool Classroom - Lacey Peters, Eloah Decat, Victoria Damjanovic, Meaghan Mosher, Cassidy Dickson, & Janette Habashi
Chapter 43: Becoming ADHD in U.S. Public Early Childhood Classrooms: Childhood Amidst Accountability Policies - Kyunghwa Lee
Chapter 44: What deaf Children Think about deaf Education - Jennifer Scarboro
Chapter 45: Constructing an Inclusive Understanding of Rights from the Ground Up: Listening to Young Children Through an International Documentary Film Adventure - John Nimmo & Maria Thereza Oliva Marcilio
Chapter 46: Justice, Dignity and Respect: Love as an Organizing Principle in Global Childhoods - Chelsea Bailey, Janeth Christian Malela & Frank Mbele, Michell Naidoo, Michele Reich, Diego Pérez, Julie Nicholson, Anonymous & Lisette Garcia