TY - BOOK AU - Yelland,Nicola TI - Contemporary perspectives on early childhood education SN - 13: 9780335237876 [paperback] PY - 2010/// CY - New York PB - McGraw-Hill KW - Early childhood education KW - Research KW - Creative ability in children N1 - Includes index; Contents: Part 1 Contemporary perspectives on global and policy issues; 1 Extending possibilities and practices in early childhood education -- 2 Rethinking pedagogical practices in early childhood education: multidimensional approach to learning and inclusion -- 3 Between two debts: child and (inter) national development -- 4 Shaping the future: how human capital arguments about investment in early childhood are being (mis) used in poor countries -- 5 Reframing rights: poverty discourse and children's lives in the United States -- 6 The displaces early childhood education in the post colonial era of Hong Kong -- 7 National 'Treaures': the Aotearoa New Zealand child -- 8 Investigating quality project: opening possibilities in early childhood care and education policies and practices in Canada -- Part 2 Critical views in practice; 9 When words are scarce, but success depends on them: composing in a Navajo kindergarten -- 10 Childhoods left behind? official and unofficial basics of child writing -- 11 'Improper' children -- 12 'Like a wild thing': analysing the deviant 'competence' of girls in home-preschool communications -- 13 At home with the future: influences on young children's early experiences with digital technologies -- 14 When robots tell a story about culture...and children tell a story about learning -- 15 The early years research-policy-practice nexus: challenges and opportunities ER -