Can young children’s own photographs be a useful means of listening to their views and experiences? This is one of the questions explored in a series of research studies with 3–5-year-olds in England, which led to the development of a participatory methodology called the Mosaic approach. 

The authors explore the notion of pedagogy in early childhood education, particularly the way it has become synonymous with provision of play-based programmes.

This article highlights some concerns about the effect of excessive noise levels on children with special needs in early childhood centres.

In Doing Educational Research, Carol Mutch provides a very clear map for professionals new to educational research, be they practitioner-researchers or new researchers in tertiary institutions.

An investigation of adult–child and child–child interactions in relation to children's schema interests, within the domain of early literacy.  The authors explore continuity between sessions and between playcentre and home.

This article draws on research that was carried out in a kindergarten and two junior classes in one community. It presents findings about the understandings that mothers have of what and how their young children should be learning in kindergarten, the first year of primary school, and at home.

Centre-based models of early childhood care and education provision dominate the early childhood landscape, and “taken-for-granted” practices tend to reflect centre-based discourse. Home-based early childhood care and education settings challenge many of these common practices. This research documented the lived experiences of children in two exemplary home-based settings in urban New Zealand over 5 ...

How do early childhood teachers describe and enact their ideas about the curriculum? Two researchers, one from each side of the Tasman, describe how they have separately attempted to address this question. Despite the differing contexts of their research, the findings of their studies have one overwhelming similarity: early childhood teachers are involved in ...

How are children’s languages, identity, and confidence supported during transitions? This article describes participant research on innovative practices in transition at a Samoan-immersion early childhood “Centre of Innovation”. The research investigates the relationship between learning and language continuity as children and educators make transitions from the point of entry to the centre through to ...