CONTENTS
List of tables = ⅶ
List of figures = ⅷ
List of abbreviations = ⅸ
Preface = xi
PART Ⅰ Changing concepts and methods in early years education research = 1
1 Researching early childhood education = 3
2 Constructing childhoods = 20
3 Research paradigms : ways of seeing = 29
4 Forms of observation : measurement and analysis = 43
PART Ⅱ Early childhood education : changing research practice = 63
5 Early childhood research prior to 1985 = 65
6 Early childhood education research in a time of change = 80
PART Ⅲ Early childhood education research in action = 97
7 Multilevel modelling : a case study on mathematics performance = 99
8 Ethnography for early childhood settings = 111
PART Ⅳ Current policy, perspectives and practice in the field = 141
9 Roles, responsibilities and relationships = 143
10 Ethical issues = 156
11 A Canterbury table : the researcher's inside story = 169
12 Policy and practice : the hand that rocks the cradle = 182
13 Current theoretical perspectives : directions for the future? = 197
Appendix 1 = 210
Appendix 2 = 216
Appendix 3 = 217
Appendix 4 = 218
References = 219
Index = 237
