Early Childhood Education and Care in a Global Pandemic is a book that highlights how the international early childhood education and care sector responded to the global COVID-19 pandemic. It shows the resiliency of the sector around the world as it grappled with a rapidly changing environment of uncertainty and complexity.

1. Preschool children's ideas about the COVID-19 pandemic 2. Doräs doll got sick: Preschool children's wellbeing and play during the COVID-19 crisis. 3. Back to day one: the impact of COVID-19 lockdowns on the return to kindergarten in Australia. 4. Children's transition between home and ECEC services: Innovative practices during the COVID-19 pandemic. 5. Children's participation in education during COVID-19. 6. COVID-19 pandemic and centre-based services for children under three: Evidence and insights from the Portuguese context. 7. Predictors for caregiver involvement in childcare, education and early learning in Kenyan urban informal settlements during COVID-19. 8. Drop-off at the gate: Challenges to parent-staff collaboration in Danish childcare in the era of COVID-19. 9. Education and Care: Expanding traditional pedagogies with(in) a pandemic. 10. What does it mean to educate and care for children in Brazil in times of COVID-19 ? 11. Struggles at the frontline in pandemic times: Time to reimagine early childhood care and education in South Africa. 12. Distance learning in Cameroon: Case study of private nursery school teachers' experiences and challenges amidst COVID-19 lockdown 13. Politics and practices of the new normal: What are preschool teachers' experiences during the COVID-19 pandemic in Turkey? 14. The role of the Australian Education Union Victoria in supporting early childhood educators during a global pandemic: Tensions, challenges and opportunities for the profession. 15. A 'quint-essential(ised)' ECE workforce: COVID-19 and the exploitation of labour. Afterword