Relationships with Families in Early Childhood Education and Care: Beyond Instrumentalization in International Contexts of Diversity and Social Inequa - Paperback

by Joanne Lehrer (Author), Fay Hadley (Author), Katrien Van Laere (Author)

Relationships with Families in Early Childhood Education and Care radically challenges the role assigned to parents in neoliberal discussions of early childhood education and care, and presents new ways of thinking about relationships with families.

With contributions from international early childhood scholars and practitioners, this book includes outlooks of practitioners, families and children, particularly about the meanings they assign to relationships. Bringing together key understandings about how parent-partnerships can be understood, this book provides innovative examples of how to enact democratic partnerships with parents in diverse contexts.

Relationships with Families in Early Childhood Education and Care is an ideal text for ECEC practitioners and policy makers, trainers, graduate students and researchers.

Author Biography

Joanne Lehrer is an Associate Professor in the Department of Education at the University of Quebec in Outaouais, Canada.

Fay Hadley is an Associate Professor of Early Childhood Education and the Director: Initial Teacher Education at the School of Education, Macquarie University, Australia.

Katrien Van Laere works as a Senior researcher at VBJK (Centre for Innovation in the Early Years), Belgium.

Elizabeth Rouse is an Associate Professor of Early Childhood Education at the School of Education, Deakin University, Australia.