International perspectives on early childhood education / Jaipaul L. Roopnarine, James E. Johnson, Suzanne Flannery Quinn, and Michael M. Patte -- Early childhood education in the Caribbean region / Jaipaul L. Roopnarine and Elif Dede Yildirim -- Early childhood education in Brazil : new challenges for a national curriculum definition / Zilma de Moraes Ramos de Oliveira -- Colombian early childhood education and the quest for social justice / Clara Ines Rubiano and Suzanne Flannery Quinn -- Early childhood education in the Russian Federation / Elena Bodrova and Elena Yudina -- Early childhood education in Turkey Belma Tuğrul -- Moving forward : early childhood education in Lebanon, Oman, Qatar, and United Arab Emirates / Majida Mehana -- Early childhood education in Israel : history, policy, and practice / Dorit Aram and Margalit Ziv -- Shishu Shiksha Aur Parvarish : early childhood care and education in India / Smita Mathur -- The emerging early childhood care and development sector in the Kingdom of Bhutan / Jessica Ball and Karma Chimi Wangchuk -- Early childhood education in Hong Kong / Carrie Lau and Nirmala Rao -- Early childhood education in China / Jun-Jun Fang -- The New integrated early childhood education and care system in Taiwan / Mei-Fang Cheng -- Early childhood education in Korea / Eunjoo Jung and Sophia Han -- Socio-historical factors and early childhood education in the Japanese cultural context / Yoko Ito and Satomi Izumi-Taylor -- Early childhood care and education in the cultural context of Aotearoa (New Zealand) / Jenny Ritchie -- Becoming critically reflective about early childhood education : Australian educational leaders effecting change as street-level Bureaucrats / Manjula Waniganayake and Margaret Sims -- Early childhood education in Papua New Guinea / Victoria Carr, Kym Simoncini, and Elisapesi Manson -- Early childhood education development in Kenya / John Ng'asike / Development of early childhood education in Uganda / Godfrey Ejuu / Early childhood education and social transformation in South Africa : the emergence of early childhood education as a priority in South Africa / Linda Biersteker -- Early childhood education in Estonia / Aino Ugaste and Tiia Õun -- Roma children and early childhood education : a story of discrimination / Fraser Brown and Margaret Greenfields -- Early childhood education in Sweden : policies, curriculum, quality and future challenges / Anne Lillvist and Anette Sandberg -- Assessment in early childhood education in England : two readings, many lenses / Jo Basford and Elizabeth Wood -- The Reggio Emilia Approach to early childhood education / Carolyn Pope Edwards and Lella Gandini -- United States perspectives on early care and education / James E. Johnson and Michael M. Patte -- Early childhood education in Canada / Larry Prochner and Anna Kirova -- Policy for early childhood education and care : tools for thinking / Suzanne Flannery Quinn, James E. Johnson, Jaipaul L. Roopnarine, and Michael M. Patte -- Epilogue : conceptualizing early childhood education and care for a global community-New Directions in Policy Initiatives / Ingrid Pramling Samuelsson, Anne Kultti, and Niklas Pramling

"The Handbook of International Perspectives on Early Childhood Education provides a groundbreaking compilation of research from an interdisciplinary group of distinguished experts in early childhood education (ECE), child development, cultural and cross-cultural research in the psychological sciences, etc. The chapters provide current overviews of ECE in Latin America and the Caribbean, the Middle East, Asia, Australia, Africa, Europe, the US, and Canada, and convey how ECE is multi-sectorial, multi-cultural, and multi-disciplinary, undergirded by such disciplines as neuroscience, psychological anthropology, cross-cultural human development, childhood studies, and political science."--Provided by publisher