Part 1: Global Childhoods Editor's Introduction - Nicola J. Yelland, Lacey Peters, Nikki Fairchild, Marek Tesar, & Michelle S. Perez Part 1 Introduction - Michelle S. Perez Chapter 1: The Descendants of the Gods: Maori Indigenous Childhoods - Mere Skerrett Chapter 2: [Re]Imagining Childhoods in the Global South: South African Experiences - Bekisizwe S. Ndimande Chapter 3: Globalization and (Un)shifting Notions of Childhood: Middle-Class Parents in and from Urban India Conceptualize Childhood in a Climate of Globalization - Amita Gupta Chapter 4: Childhoods and Politics in (Post)socialist Societies - Zsuzsa Millei, Nikolai Jeffs, Petar Odak, Iveta Silova, Aniko Varga Nagy, & Anel Kulahmetova Chapter 5: Postcolonial Childhoods: Historical and Contemporary Notions - Radhika Viruru & Nazneen Askari Chapter 6: A Study of 'Learning through Play' in Mainland China, Hong Kong and Singapore Kindergartens Using Asia as Method - Luting Zhou, Erica Burman, & Susie Miles Chapter 7: Children's Geographies Beyond 'Agency' - Peter Kraftl, Sarada Balagopalan, & Gabriela Tebet Chapter 8: Relational Mapping and Global Childhoods - Iris Duhn, Karen Malone, & Linda Knight Chapter 9: Platicas on Early Childhood and Bilingual Education: Reckoning with the Past to Envision the Future - Paty Abril-Gonzalez & Michelle Salazar Perez Part 2: Researching Global Childhoods Part 2 Introduction - Marek Tesar Chapter 10: The Historical Emergence of Modern Childhood - Jonas Qvarsebo Chapter 11: Philosophy of Childhood: Style, Philosophy, and the 'Post-It' of Global Childhoods - Andrew Gibbons & Marek Tesar Chapter 12: Rethinking Global Sociology of Childhoods - Sonja Arndt Chapter 13: Posthumanism/New Materialism: the Child, Childhood and Education - Hillevi Lenz Taguchi & Christine Eriksson Chapter 14: Research Methodologies with Young Children: Muddling in the Middle - Kylie Smith Chapter 15: Black Geographies in Early Childhood Studies - Fikile Nxumalo, Nnenna Odim, & Alison Smith Chapter 16: Figuring Gender in Early Childhood with Animal Figurines: Pursuing Tentacular Stories about Global Childhoods in the Anthropocene - Jayne Osgood & Sid Mohandas Chapter 17: Krishnamurti's Insights for Global Childhood Education and Research - Marina Basu Chapter 18: Ni nino, ni ruisenor/Not a child, nor a mockingbird: Decolonisation of Childhoods in Abya Yala - ximena galdames castillo Chapter 19: Architecting Process-Oriented Research Methodologies in Early Childhood Education - Nikki Rotas Part 3: Contemporary Childhoods Part 3 Introduction - Nicola J. Yelland Chapter 20: Childhoods for the Common Good: The Educational Project of Reggio Emilia - Stefania Giamminuti Chapter 21: (R)existence in the Borderlands: Immigrant Children in the United States - Angeles Maldonado & Beth Blue Swadener Chapter 22: Homeless and Street Connected Childhoods: Contemporary Challenges within International Convention Frameworks - Dimitrina Kaneva & Su Corcoran Chapter 23: Multimodal Childhoods: Lifeworlds and Lived Experiences of Young Children in Pedagogic Cultures - Lorna Arnott & Nicola Yelland Chapter 24: Learning with Place: Innovative Pedagogies for Climate Action - Jeanne Marie Iorio & Catherine Hamm Chapter 25: The Every/day Materialities of Children's School Lives - Casey Meyers Chapter 26: Children After the Animal Turn: Child-animal Relations and Multispecies Scholarship - Pauliina Rautio, Tuure Tammi, & Riikka Hohti Chapter 27: Play, Popular Culture and the Aesthetics of Play: Children as Cultural Critics - Haeny S. Yoon Chapter 28: Minds Nested in Nature - Jay Griffiths Part 4: Pedagogies and Practice Part 4 Introduction - Nikki Fairchild Chapter 29: The Importance of Early Childhood Education and Care for Hungarian Ethnic Minority Groups in Romania, Slovak Republic and Serbia - Eva Mikuska Chapter 30: Untidying Child Development with a Picturebook: Disrupting Colonising Binary Logic in Teacher Education - Karin Murris, Rose-Anne Reynolds, Heloisa da Silva, & Luzia Aparecida de Souza Chapter 31: Seeing Beyond: Perspectives of Black and Minority Ethnic Children in English ECEC - Nikki Fairchild & Vini Lander Chapter 32: On Being Led (astray) by (feral) Materials: Posthuman Research Practice in an outdoor ECEC Atelier - Lucy Hill Chapter 33: Construction of children's cultural identity in Chinese context: Understanding young children's perspectives via popular picture books - Fengling Tang, Pan Yue-Juan, & Niwen Wu Chapter 34: The Norwegian #barnehageoppror2016 (the 2016 kindergarten riots): Renewed acts of political and professional minor gestures - Ann Merete Otterstad & Constanse Elmenhorst Chapter 35: From Policy to Pedagogy: Image of the Singapore Child - Wu Pinhui Sandra Chapter 36: Social Inequality in the Early Childhood Care and Education Practice in Nigeria - Hannah Olubunmi Ajayi Chapter 37: Quality Early Childhood Care and Education (ECCE) in India: Where do we stand? - Reetu Chandra Part 5: Creating Communities for Global Children Part 5 Introduction - Lacey Peters Chapter 38: Unpacking Children and Childhood in Indonesian Preschool Policy Documents - Ali Formen, Hani Yulindrasari, & Vina Adriany Chapter 39: Infants and Young Children in Alternative Care - Eunice Lumsden Chapter 40: Pedagogic Resistance: Children's Play as Political Agency - Maria Persons Chapter 41: Children Walking Diverse Worlds: Facing the Trouble of a Settler Colonial Past and Present - Claudia Diaz-Diaz Chapter 42: Fostering Community and Environmental Sustainability in Early Childhood: A Project on Living Things in a Preschool Classroom - Lacey Peters, Eloah Decat, Victoria Damjanovic, Meaghan Mosher, Cassidy Dickson, & Janette Habashi Chapter 43: Becoming ADHD in U.S. Public Early Childhood Classrooms: Childhood Amidst Accountability Policies - Kyunghwa Lee Chapter 44: What deaf Children Think about deaf Education - Jennifer Scarboro Chapter 45: Constructing an Inclusive Understanding of Rights from the Ground Up: Listening to Young Children Through an International Documentary Film Adventure - John Nimmo & Maria Thereza Oliva Marcilio Chapter 46: Justice, Dignity and Respect: Love as an Organizing Principle in Global Childhoods - Chelsea Bailey, Janeth Christian Malela & Frank Mbele, Michell Naidoo, Michele Reich, Diego Perez, Julie Nicholson, Anonymous & Lisette Garcia