Research Methods for Early Childhood Education

Ang, Lynn, Flewitt, Rosie

ISBN 10: 1350015415 / ISBN 13: 9781350015418

Published by Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2020

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Research Methods for Early Childhood Education
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
• Publication Date: 2020
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1350015415
• ISBN 13: 9781350015418
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: Very Good
• Weight: 0.789 pounds

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Synopsis

Research Methods for Early Childhood Education takes an international perspective on research design, and illustrates how research methods are inextricably linked to cultural and theoretical understandings of early childhood, young children's competences and the purposes of education.

The book offers a critical and reflective approach to established and innovative research methods in early childhood education, making links between diverse methodologies, methods and theory, with illustrative examples of research in practice. Each chapter addresses a specific methodological approach, linking the methodology to early childhood education with vignettes as examples of research practice in the global north, south, east and west, offering practical examples and critical thinking around new theoretical understandings of early childhood across geographical and cultural contexts.
The book critically examines:
- the role of the researcher
- conceptualisations of how research is undertaken;
- the often sensitive nature of conducting research with young children;
- how early childhood education is understood;
- how young children can be included as active research participants.

Throughout, the book emphasises ethical and methodological issues that arise from undertaking research in mono-cultural and cross-cultural contexts. Annotated further reading lists provide a selection of seminal and recent studies that have adopted each methodological approach.

About the Authors

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.

Melanie Nind is Professor of Education at the University of Southampton, UK. She is Co-Director of ESRC National Centre for Research Methods and Co-Editor of the International Journal of Research & Method in Education.