INTRODUCTION TO VOLUME 13: SOCIAL CONTEXTS OF EARLY EDUCATION, AND RECONCEPTUALIZING PLAY (II)

Abstract

Volume 13 of the Advances in Early Education and Day Care series marks twenty years that the series has attempted to provide a forum for current scholarship that might further our thinking about early childhood education and care. This, my ninth volume as series editor, is intended to serve the continuing intent of the series to provide multi-disciplinary and interdisciplinary perspectives on a field that by its nature requires diverse perspectives. Early childhood practices have drawn on ideas from child development, curriculum studies, social work, nursing, sociology, anthropology, and other fields that inform us about children, their care, and the settings in which we implement our programs. Advances has always attempted to respect the necessary diversity of perspectives that can inform the field, and to support work that may not fit in a tidy disciplinary nook.

Citation

Reifel, S. (2004), "INTRODUCTION TO VOLUME 13: SOCIAL CONTEXTS OF EARLY EDUCATION, AND RECONCEPTUALIZING PLAY (II)", Reifel, S. and Brown, M. (Ed.) Social Contexts of Early Education, and Reconceptualizing Play (II) (Advances in Early Education and Day Care, Vol. 13), Emerald Group Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. IX-XIII. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0270-4021(04)13013-9