Early Childhood Folio is seeking articles for this special issue. The issue will honour eminent childhood studies scholar, Emeritus Professor Anne B. Smith.
This issue seeks articles focused on children as social actors and understandings of childhoods in contemporary times. It promotes a multi-disciplinary childhood studies approach, emphasising the social construction of childhoods ...

Early Childhood Folio is seeking articles for this special issue. The issue will honour eminent childhood studies scholar, Emeritus Professor Anne B. Smith.
This issue seeks articles focused on children as social actors and understandings of childhoods in contemporary times. It promotes a multi-disciplinary childhood studies approach, emphasising the social construction of childhoods ...

This article draws on ongoing research by the teaching team at Mangere Bridge Kindergarten that investigates the role of a transition portfolio for children making the transition to primary school. During the kindergarten’s Centre of Innovation research project (2006–2008), focus groups of kindergarten parents often commented that they viewed their child’s kindergarten ...

This article presents the voices of Aboriginal Australians who participated in the Children, Carer, Community action research project, which aimed to identify factors for growing responsive and culturally respectful learning spaces in remote West Kimberley. Specifically, responses to two open-ended research questions, “What do you think needs to change ...

In early childhood education in Aotearoa New Zealand it is common practice for teachers to write Learning Stories to document and interpret children’s learning events. What these stories don’t always uncover or articulate, however, are the parallel roles which teachers play in these learning episodes. By widening these stories ...

Information and communication technology (ICT) is acknowledged as being a significant part of many people’s lives, and for many young children it forms the backdrop to their lives. Research suggests the very nature of some ICT requires relational and collaborative pedagogical practices to accompany it. This article draws on ...

This article responds to an increasing emphasis on early childhood care and education (ECCE) as preparation for academic success and the child as a future economic resource, manifest in various recent government policy initiatives in Aotearoa New Zealand. The article explores the way this situation has arisen despite the ...

This article explores identity-work stories of three newly qualified early childhood teachers in Aotearoa New Zealand. A small poststructural research study investigated how five newly qualified early childhood teachers understood their identities as teachers. Within the data was evidence of three dominant discourses of early childhood education that shaped ...

This article describes how two critical literacy activities were successfully incorporated into an early childhood centre in Aotearoa New Zealand. The article discusses the design of the activities, how the activities worked in the classroom, and the children’s perceived learning. The article concludes that critical literacy activities with young ...

This article describes the findings of a series of qualitative research studies which explored the technologies with which children aged 3–5 years old play, the forms of learning related to these activities, and the conditions which shaped their experiences with digital resources. Three forms of learning were observed in ...