Children are increasingly described as agents and agency is important to arguments for
children's rights and participation. Yet agency is rarely defined or theorised in childhood …

This classic text continues to define what multicultural education means in all kinds of
settings:" The Third Edition includes activities to challenge children's assumptions on: Racial …

Inspired by the idea of documentation as a valuable tool for making learning visible,
pedagogical narration offers an opportunity to move beyond checklists and quick answers to …

Considerable attention has been paid across international contexts to structural factors
affecting the sustainability of the early childhood workforce. While attention to these …

Borderlands of practice are spaces where teachers are engaged in negotiating multiple
conceptions of “best practices” within their daily teaching practice. Teachers at work in …

In his inspirational article titled 'Bringing politics into the nursery', Peter Moss argues for early
childhood institutions to become places of 'democratic political practice'. In this article, the …

This paper explores a small sample of Australian early childhood teachers' perceptions of
the rights-based concepts participation and agency. We recognise and reconcile some of …

The many-faced cry: Tone and tempo in the pre-school This article focuses on crying
amongst the youngest children in preschool. The study is based on an critical ethnographic …

In early childhood, the body is frequently used as a pedagogical reference point to establish,
affirm and stabilize children's gendered and racialized identities. Through this naming of the …

This thesis inquires into possibilities for young children's active citizenship as provoked
through a practice of social justice storytelling with one Preparatory1 class of children aged …