Children’s Self-determination in the Context of Early Childhood Education and Services

Chapter 1 Introduction

Chapter 2 Practices/1, Italy: Facilitating Participation in Early Childhood Education

Chapter 3 Practices/2, Japan: The Exploration of Four-Year-Olds Potential: Focusing the Democratic Meeting During the Sports Festival Day

Chapter 4 Practices/3, Finland: A Collective Method of Early Childhood Self-Determination

Chapter 5 Practices/4, United Kingdom: Finding the Voice of Children. Video-Observation to Discover Children’s Claims of Knowledge Through Play

Chapter 6 Practices/5, Kazakhstan: Keeping It Real: Making Space for Play in Early Education Policy and Practice

Chapter 7 Practices/6, United States of America: Hybrid-Transitions as a Space for Children’s Agency. A Case-Study from a Pre-kindergarten in Boston

Chapter 8 Practices/7, Wales: Foregrounding Relationships in Classroom Practices Framing Children’s Learning: Case Studies from Two Primary School Classrooms in Wales

Chapter 9 Practices/8, New Zealand: Attentive Encounters: Infant and Toddler Participation in an Early Childhood Community

Chapter 10 Discourses/1, Australia: Whose Rights? The Child’s Right to Be Heard in the Context of the Family and the Early Childhood Service: An Australian Early Childhood Perspective

Chapter 11 Discourses/2. Ireland: Listening to Children’s Voices in Irish Social Work through Cultural and Organisational Filters

Chapter 12 Discourses/3. Kenya: Challenging Negative Perceptions around the ‘African Child’

Chapter 13 Discourses/4. Brazil: Accessing the Rights of Children with Disabilities: Attitudes Towards and Challenges for SEND in Brazil

Chapter 14 Discourses/5. Mexico: Children’s Rights in Mexico Analysis of a Legal and Policy Framework

Chapter 15 Discourses/6. England: The Position of Children’s Rights in the Discourse on Citizenship. The Case of the Early Years Foundation Stage for England

Chapter 16 Discourses/7. New Zealand: “I Have a New Taiaha”: Learning New Ways to Advocate for the Rights of Mokopuna Māori

Chapter 17 Discourses/8, China: Children’s Participation Rights in Chinese Early Childhood Education: A Critical Investigation of Policy and Research

Chapter 18 As a Conclusion, to the Future: A Discussion on Trust, Agency and the Semantics of Rights in Intergenerational Relationships