Includes bibliographical references (pages [211]-245) and index.

Conceptualizing Early Education in a Global Context -- Ethics and Early Childhood Research -- Reviewing Literature as a Methodology -- Participatory Research with Young Children -- Participatory Research Approaches with Adults -- Ethnographic Research in Early Childhood Education -- Multimodal Perspectives on Early Childhood Education -- Mixed Methods in Early Childhood Education Research -- Experimental Research and Randomized Control Trials (RCTs).

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This volume takes an international perspective on research design and illustrates how research methods are inextricably linked to cultural and theoretical understandings of early childhood, young children's competences and the purposes of education. It offers a critical and reflective approach to established and innovative research methods in early childhood education, making links between diverse methodologies, methods and theory, with illustrative examples of research in practice. Each chapter addresses a specific methodological approach, linking the methodology to early childhood education with vignettes as examples of research practice in the global north, south, east and west, and offering practical examples and critical thinking around new theoretical understandings of early childhood across geographical and cultural contexts. -- Provided by publisher.

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