Research Partnerships in Early Childhood Education

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xxix

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2. Introduction

   • Lindsey Conner, Judith Duncan

   Pages 1-10

3. Re-generating Research Partnerships in Early Childhood Education: A Non-idealized Vision

   • Veronica Pacini-Ketchabaw, Fikile Nxumalo

   Pages 11-26

4. Attunement of Knowledge Forms: The Relational Agency of Researchers, Policy Writers, and Early Childhood Educators

   • Marilyn Fleer

   Pages 27-47

5. Developing Effective Research-Practice Partnerships: Lessons from a Decade of Partnering with Schools in Poor Urban Communities

   • Mei Lai, Stuart Mcnaughton

   Pages 49-69

6. Partnership in Promoting Literacy: An Exploration of Two Studies in Low-Decile Early Childhood Settings in New Zealand

   • Claire Mclachlan, Alison Arrow, Judy Watson

   Pages 71-91

7. Ko koe ki tēna, ko ahau ki tēnei kīwai o te kete: Exploring Collaboration across a Range of Recent Early Childhood Studies

   • Jenny Ritchie, Janita Craw, Cheryl Rau, Iris Duhn

   Pages 93-113

8. An Ongoing Exploration of Uncertainty: Ethical Identities—Ours and Children’s

   • Kim Atkinson, Enid Elliot

   Pages 115-133

9. Teacher Reflection in Early Years Partnership Research Projects: But It’s No Use Going Back to Yesterday, because I Was a Different Person Then (Says Alice from Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland)

   • Judith Duncan

   Pages 135-152

10. Conclusion: Research Partnerships in Early Years Education

    • Judith Duncan, Lindsey Conner

    Pages 153-165

11. Back Matter

    Pages 167-172

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Duncan and Conner demonstrate how collaborative research on early childhood education results in gains for educators, researchers, and children alike. Drawing on examples of successful partnerships from Canada, Australia, and New Zealand, they set out the successes, struggles, insights, and opportunities that come from such partnerships.

• childhood
• childhood education
• children
• education

“Research Partnerships in Early Childhood Education: Teachers and Researchers in Collaboration, edited by Judith Duncan and Lindsey Conner, provides a rich discussion on the issues, challenges, and complexities of working in partnerships on research initiatives. … contents of this edited book can be used by researchers, educators, and policy makers to aid in their reflection of their own collaborative work and to consider the theories outlined in each chapter to ponder the complex issues that inevitably arise during research partnerships.” (Laura Teichert, Alberta Journal of Educational Research, Vol. 62.2, 2016)

• School of Educational Studies and Leadership, College of Education, Te Whare Wānanga O Waitaha / University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand

  Judith Duncan

• College of Education, Te Whare Wānanga O Waitaha / University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand

  Lindsey Conner

Alison Arrow, College of Education, Massey University, New Zealand Kim Atkinson, Victoria Learning Circle, Canada Janita Craw, School of Education, Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand Dr Iris Duhn, Faculty of Education, Monash University, Australia Enid Elliot, University of Victoria, Canada Marilyn Fleer, Monash University, Australia Richard Johnson, University of Hawaii, USA Mei Kuin Lai, University of Auckland, New Zealand Maggie MacLure, Educational and Social Research Institute, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK Claire McLachlan, College of Education, Massey University, New Zealand Stuart McNaughton, University of Auckland, New Zealand Fikile Nxumalo, University of Victoria, Canada Veronica Pacini-Ketchabaw, University of Victoria, Canada Cheryl Rau, The New Zealand Childcare Association Jennie Ritchie, Unitec Institute of Technology, New Zealand Judy Watson, Ruahine Kindergarten Association, New Zealand

Policies and ethics