Meaning Making in Early Childhood Research asks readers to rethink research in early childhood education through qualitative research practices reflective of arts-based pedagogies.

1. Vivid Life and Learning: Rendering Thorough Illustrations Rather Than Chopping Human Stories to Bits Will Parnell and Jeanne Marie Iorio 2. Crisis, Empowerment, and Learning in Early Childhood: Deepening Meaning Through Arts-Based Research and Action Research Will Parnell and Jeanne Marie Iorio 3. I Have a Voice. I Have a Story.: The Artistic Practice of Practitioner Research Heather J. Pinedo-Burns and Dana Frantz Bentley 4. Reggio's Arpeggio: Becoming Pedagogical Through Autoethnography Peter Gouzouasis and Matthew Yanko 5. Aesthetic Experiences With Young Children in Hong Kong Carrie Ka Lee Ho 6. Reimagining Narratives of Place: Respectfully Centring Aboriginal Perspectives in Early Childhood Education Catherine Hamm 7. Ocean Swimmers: Re-Envisaging Relationality in MAPS, an Early Childhood Arts Research Project David Lines, John Roder and Chris Naughton 8. Collaborative Landscapes within Deleuze/Guattarian Affect and Assemblage: Aesthetic Notions of Place Explored by Preschool Immigrant Teachers, Parents and Children Patti Pente, Christine Massing and Anna Kirova 9. Listening to the Voices of Children Learning English as a Foreign Language: Implications for Early Childhood English Language Teachers Ming-Fang Hsieh 10. Rhizomes and Intra-Activity With Materials: Ways of Disrupting and Reimagining Early Literacy Research, Teaching, and Learning Candace R. Kuby 11. Multifaceted Storying Among Children and Preservice Teacher Bricoleurs: Ways to Gather and Care Elizabeth P. Quintero