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Critical Issues in ECE by Nicola Yelland (Editor).

Typically an edited book is a loose collection of chapters written by various authors around a theme or topic, agreeing on and promoting to the reader a particular position.

Yelland has instead taken a bold approach of producing an edited book to present “diverse viewpoints, so that reade

What is Research? Methodological Practices and New Approaches by Jeanette Rhedding-Jones.

What is Research? Articulating a clear-cut answer to this question that everyone will agree on is just not possible.

As Jeanette Rhedding-Jones shows in her splendidly plain-spoken book by addressing this question one becomes aware that there is so muc

The NZ Early Childhood Literacy Handbook by Judy Hamer & Paul Adams.

Hamer and Adams have skilfully weaved the latest research and theory with the current political and social context to present proposals for best literacy practices and a huge range of practical literacy based ideas.

The NZ Early Childhood Literacy Handbook is recom

“A City Possessed”: The Christchurch Civic Creche Case by Lynley Hood.

No other case of child abuse in New Zealand’s history has held public attention so strongly and for so long as the Christchurch Civic Creche case. While charges against four of his female colleagues were dropped after an 11-week preliminary hearing, Peter Ellis was later se

Beyond Quality in Early Childhood Education & Care Postmodern Perspectives by Gunilla Dahlberg, Peter Moss & Alan Pence. This review was first published in the NZJES journal, 34(2), 1999,  pp. 368 – 369. Reviewed by Dr Sarah Alexander. 

Beyond Quality challenges the discourse of early childhood education and over two decade