Meaning Making in Early Childhood Research
Pedagogies and the Personal
Changing Images of Early Childhood Series

Meaning Making in Early Childhood Research asks readers to rethink research in early childhood education through qualitative research practices reflective of arts-based pedagogies. This collection explores how educators and researchers can move toward practices of meaning making in early childhood education. The text?s narrative style provides an intimate portrait of engaging in research that challenges assumptions and thinking in a variety of international contexts, and each chapter offers a way to engage in meaning making based on the experiences of young children, their families, and educators.

1. Vivid Life and Learning: Rendering Thorough Illustrations Rather Than Chopping Human Stories to Bits Will Parnell and Jeanne Marie Iorio 2. Crisis, Empowerment, and Learning in Early Childhood: Deepening Meaning Through Arts-Based Research and Action Research Will Parnell and Jeanne Marie Iorio 3. I Have a Voice. I Have a Story.: The Artistic Practice of Practitioner Research Heather J. Pinedo-Burns and Dana Frantz Bentley 4. Reggio’s Arpeggio: Becoming Pedagogical Through Autoethnography Peter Gouzouasis and Matthew Yanko 5. Aesthetic Experiences With Young Children in Hong Kong Carrie Ka Lee Ho 6. Reimagining Narratives of Place: Respectfully Centring Aboriginal Perspectives in Early Childhood Education Catherine Hamm 7. Ocean Swimmers: Re-Envisaging Relationality in MAPS, an Early Childhood Arts Research Project David Lines, John Roder and Chris Naughton 8. Collaborative Landscapes within Deleuze/Guattarian Affect and Assemblage: Aesthetic Notions of Place Explored by Preschool Immigrant Teachers, Parents and Children Patti Pente, Christine Massing and Anna Kirova 9. Listening to the Voices of Children Learning English as a Foreign Language: Implications for Early Childhood English Language Teachers Ming-Fang Hsieh 10. Rhizomes and Intra-Activity With Materials: Ways of Disrupting and Reimagining Early Literacy Research, Teaching, and Learning Candace R. Kuby 11. Multifaceted Storying Among Children and Preservice Teacher Bricoleurs: Ways to Gather and Care Elizabeth P. Quintero

Jeanne Marie Iorio is Senior Lecturer in Early Childhood Education at Victoria University, Melbourne, Australia. Her work includes co-advising the early childhood courses in the College of Arts and Education.

Will Parnell is Department Chair of the Graduate School of Education's Curriculum and Instruction Department, Professor of Early Childhood Education, and Pedagogical Liaison to the Helen Gordon Child Development Center at Portland State University, USA.