Chapter 1 Patronage, Welfare, Tenders, Private Consultancies and Expert Measurement: What Is Happening in Early Childhood Education and Care

Chapter 2 Early Childhood and Children’s Rights: A Critical Perspective

Chapter 3 Perspectivist Challenges for ECD Intervention in Africa

Chapter 4 Early Childhood Education and Care from a Gender Perspective

Chapter 6 Promoting Indigenous Epistemologies in Early Childhood Development Policy and Practice in Pastoralist Communities in Kenya

Chapter 7 Conceptualizing Early Schooling in Pakistan: Perspectives from Teachers and Parents

Chapter 8 Uzbekistan: Implementing ECEC Services in Authoritarian Regimes

Chapter 9 ‘The Knowledge Is in Your Ears, in the Stories You Hear from the Grandparents’: Creating Intercultural Dialogue Through Memories of Childhood

Chapter 10 Growing into Music

Chapter 11 Early Childhood: A Panacea for Intervention? Theories, Approaches and Practices in Development Work