Rosie Flewitt is Reader in Early Communication and Literacy in the Department of Learning and Leadership at the IOE, UCL’s Faculty of Education and Society, University College London, UK. Lynn Ang is Reader in Early Childhood in the Department of Learning and Leadership at the IOE, UCL’s Faculty of Education and Society, University College London, UK.
This book is novel. Written at a time when we need innovative approaches to the study of young children's lives, and during a period with a welcome and increased focus on childhoods in not just rich but also low and middle income countries. The book reflects critically on ECEC research methods of the past and likely future avenues connecting conceptualisations of childhood and young children with a wide range of research methodologies in ECEC. One of the book's strengths is the fascinating vignettes of research in small and large-scale studies of diverse childhoods in the global north and south. * Iram Siraj, Professor of Child Development and Education, University of Oxford, UK *