Home in Early Childhood Care and Education

This edited volume investigates the effects of shifting configurations and conceptualizations of the experience and meaning of home as it is embodied in early childhood care and education (ECCE). As the globalized early learning agenda drives more children to attend ECCE institutions, these institutions increasingly employ the concept of home through their curriculum and daily operations by attempting to foster a homelike environment or by incorporating items from children's homes into play. Chapters seek to recognize the complexity of a concept that is often taken for granted by exploring ways of being and thinking that share an interest in the notion of home. Authors offer multiple lenses and approaches to make sense of home as a conceptual space that operates in complex and often interrelated ways, including as an intellectual space, a built environment, a disciplinary technology, and a threshold. Andrew Gibbons is Professor in the School of Education at Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand. Sonya Gaches is Senior Lecturer of Early Childhood Education at the University of Otago College of Education, New Zealand. Sonja Arndt is Senior Lecturer in Early Childhood Education at Melbourne Graduate School of Education at the University of Melbourne, Australia. Mara Sapon-Shevin is Professor of Inclusive Education at Syracuse University, USA. Colette Murray is Lecturer at Technological University Dublin, Ireland. Mathias Urban is Desmond Chair of Early Childhood Education and Director of the Early Childhood Research Centre at Dublin City University, Ireland. Marek Tesar is Professor of Childhood Studies and Early Childhood Education, as well as Associate Dean International in the Faculty of Education and Social Work, at University of Auckland, New Zealand.