Tables of contents

The spinster teacher in Australia from the 1870s to the 1960s

Kay Whitehead

Mechanical contrivances and fancy needlework: The Brisbane Exhibition and education in colonial Queensland

Joanne Scott

‘Solving an empire problem’: the Salvation Army and British juvenile migration to Australia

Esther Daniel

Tracing the origin of Rudolph Steiner’s pedagogy of imagination

Thomas Neilsen, Julia Smith

Student activists at Sydney university 1960-1967: a problem of interpretation

Alan Barcan

Special issue: philosophy of early childhood education

Editorial

Michael A Peters

223

Meetings across the paradigmatic divide

Peter Moss

229

The gift paradigm in early childhood education

Genevieve Vaughan, Eila Estola

246

Conceptions of the self in early childhood: territorializing identities

Liselott Borgnon

264

Deconstructing and transgressing the theory -practice dichotomy in early childhood education

Hillevi Lenz Taguchi

275

In early childhood: what's language about?

Liane Mozère

291

The politics of processes and products in education: an early childhood metanarrative crisis?

Andrew Gibbons

300

(Re)positioning the child in the policy/politics of early childhood

Christine Woodrow, Frances Press

312

Theories of Rights - edited by C L Ten

John Ozolins

326

Theoretically framed: argument and desire in the production of general knowledge about literacy

Mark Dressman

South African schools that promote literacy learning with students from low-income communities

Misty Sailors, James V Hoffman, Bertus Matthee

Sedimented identities in texts: instances of practice

Jennifer Rowsell, Kate Pahl

New directions in research: multiple dimensions of achievement: defining, identifying, and addressing 'The Gap'

New directions in research: turning reading research into policy

Bob Wise

New directions in research: closing the gap through professional development: implications for reading research

Michael Brandon Doubek, Eric J Cooper

New directions in research: enhancing adolescent literacy achievement through integration of technology in the classroom

Betty J Sternberg, Karen A Kaplan, Jennifer E Borck

New directions in research: 'where am I?' - a call for 'connectedness' in literacy

Phil Hunsberger

New directions in research: recommendations for research to improve reading achievement for African American students

Lamont A Flowers

International reports on literacy research second-language issues and multiculturalism

Essay book review: diverse perspectives on helping young children build important foundational language and print skills

Irene W Gaskins, Linda D Labbo