Tables of contents

Editorial introduction

Early childhood care and education: worldwide challenges and progresses

Yoon Lee & Matthew Hayden

Articles

Early childhood care and education in Zambia: an integral part of educational provision?

Carolyn M. Thomas & Matthew A.M. Thomas

Incorporating indigenous knowledge and practice into ECCE: a comparison of programs in The Gambia, Senegal and Mali

Alicia Ranck Soudée

The Better Early Childhood Development program: an innovative Brazilian public policy

Alessandra Schneider, Vera Regina Ramires, Maria da Graça Gomes Paiva & Leila Almeida

A new look on Early Child Care and Education (ECCE) as joint responsibility

Maria da Graça Gomes Paiva, Alessandra Schneider, Maria Lúcia Salle Machado & Pollyana Vilela Duarte Perinazzo

Articles

Children’s expressions of exhilaration and fear in risky play

Ellen Beate Hansen Sandseter

92–106

Mathematics education in the early years: building bridges

Glenda Anthony & Margaret Walshaw

107–121

The parent–teacher conference in the Swedish preschool: a study of an ongoing process as a 'pocket of local order'

Ann-Marie Markström

122– 132

Barriers to and facilitators of inclusion for children with disabilities in early childhood education

Kerry Purdue

133– 143

Relationship theory in the nursery: attachment and beyond

Sheila Degotardi & Emma Pearson

144– 155

Shaping conduct and bridling passions: governing practicum supervisors' practice of assessment

Michelle Ortlipp

156 –167

'Crossing the Rubicon': strategic planning or neo-biopower? a critique of the language of New Zealand’s Early Childhood Strategic Plan

Margaret Stuart

168–181

Colloquium

The lives of Sesame Street: the impact of foreclosures on young children and families

Danné E. Davis & Minsun Shin

182–184

Book reviews

Doing Action Research in Early Childhood Studies: A step by Step Guide (Glenda MacNaughton & Patrick Hughes)

reviewed by Louise Phillips

185– 187

Connecting with Children: Developing Working Relationships (Pam Foley & Stephen Leverett, eds)

reviewed by Melinda G. Miller

187–190

Editorial

Clare McBeath & Roger Atkinson

Articles

Reconciling the tensions of new teachers' socialisation into school culture: a review of the research

Lorenzo Cherubini

An instrument for investigating Chinese language learning environments in Singapore secondary schools

Siew Lian Chua, Angela F. L. Wong & Der-Thanq Chen

A critical commentary on combined methods approach to researching educational and social issues

Hope Pius Nudzor

Problem based learning in science

Coral Pepper

Making visible the coding process: using qualitative data software in a post-structural study

Mary Ryan

The challenge of researching violent societies: navigating complexities in ethnography

Icarbord Tshabangu

Do example sentences work in direct vocabulary learning?

Zhang Baicheng

Book review

Write ways: Modelling writing forms

Vicki Parkes

Editorial

Roger Atkinson & Catherine McLoughlin

iii–x

Articles

A review of podcasting in higher education: its influence on the traditional lecture

Oliver McGarr

309–321

Laptop computers and wireless university campus networks: Is flexibility and effectiveness improved?

Miikka J. Eriksson, Hanna Vuojärvi & Heli Ruokamo

322–335

Discourses in conflict: the relationship between Gen Y pre-service teachers, digital technologies and lifelong learning

Sharn Donnison

336–350

Planning to teach with digital tools: introducing the interactive whiteboard to pre-service secondary mathematics teachers

Kathryn Holmes

351–365

Staff and student perceptions of an online learning environment: difference and development

Stuart Palmer & Dale Holt

366–381

The effects of using a wiki on student engagement and learning of report writing skills in a university statistics course

David L. Neumann & Michelle Hood

382–398

Reconciling university teacher beliefs to create learning designs for LMS environments

Caroline Steel

399–420

Do undergraduate paramedic students embrace case based learning using a blended teaching approach? A 3-year review

Brett Williams

421–439

Designing an online video based platform for teacher learning in Singapore

Hyo-Jeong So, Hans Lossman, Wei-Ying Lim & Michael J. Jacobson

440–457