Practitioner research is increasingly used by and with teachers to counter discourses and
policies of top-down standardisation. Growing numbers of researchers advocate benefits as …

THIS PAPER CHALLENGES DEFICIT assumptions about families in poor and socially
marginalised communities who are often presumed to be providing inadequate language …

The study investigated how primary schools in Chiredzi District in Zimbabwe, cater for ECD
“A” and “B” children with special education needs. A mixed method design located in the …

ABSTRACT 'Educational Leadership'is embedded in [country] early childhood policy. What
the role is, who should do it and why educators are hesitant about becoming leaders …

This thesis emanates from an ethnographically informed study involving a close examination
of the multiple ways that meaning making emerges in children's ongoing, self-initiated …

Many scholars and researchers now have a broadened vision of literacy that encompasses
the social practices that surround literacy learning. What accompanies this vision is a shift …

While visual documentation of learning in early childhood settings has become ubiquitous,
the application of visual methodology to educational research has been relatively minor …

Growing awareness that strengthening parents' engagement can enhance children's
learning achievements, sense of wellbeing, and connectedness is fuelling increased policy …

We conceive transitions, the central focus of this book, across two axes. First, our attention is
directed towards the contribution of the educators' transformed practices to enhancing …

Many scholars and researchers now have a broadened vision of literacy that encompasses
the social practices that surround literacy learning. What accompanies this vision is a shift …