This Handbook explores the multidisciplinary field of childhood studies through a uniquely global lens. It focuses on enquiries and investigations into the everyday lives of young children in the age range of birth to 8 years of age, giving space to their voices and involving interrogations about the various aspect of their lives.  This Handbook engages with the interdisciplinary field of childhood studies, education, cultural studies, ethnography, and philosophy, with contributions from scholars from across the globe who have focused their work on the complexities of childhoods in contemporary times.

Part 1: Global ChildhoodsEditor's Introduction - Nicola J. Yelland, Lacey Peters, Nikki Fairchild, Marek Tesar, & Michelle S. PérezPart 1 Introduction - Michelle S. PérezChapter 1: The Descendants of the Gods: Maori Indigenous Childhoods - Mere SkerrettChapter 2: [Re]Imagining Childhoods in the Global South: South African Experiences - Bekisizwe S. NdimandeChapter 3: Globalization and (Un)shifting Notions of Childhood: Middle-Class Parents in and from Urban India Conceptualize Childhood in a Climate of Globalization - Amita GuptaChapter 4: Childhoods and Politics in (Post)socialist Societies - Zsuzsa Millei, Nikolai Jeffs, Petar Odak, Iveta Silova, Anikó Varga Nagy, & Anel KulahmetovaChapter 5: Postcolonial Childhoods: Historical and Contemporary Notions - Radhika Viruru & Nazneen Askari Chapter 6: A Study of 'Learning through Play' in Mainland China, Hong Kong and Singapore Kindergartens Using Asia as Method - Luting Zhou, Erica Burman, & Susie MilesChapter 7: Children's Geographies Beyond 'Agency' - Peter Kraftl, Sarada Balagopalan, & Gabriela TebetChapter 8: Relational Mapping and Global Childhoods - Iris Duhn, Karen Malone, & Linda KnightChapter 9: Pláticas on Early Childhood and Bilingual Education: Reckoning with the Past to Envision the Future - Paty Abril-Gonzalez & Michelle Salazar PérezPart 2: Researching Global ChildhoodsPart 2 Introduction - Marek TesarChapter 10: The Historical Emergence of Modern Childhood - Jonas QvarseboChapter 11: Philosophy of Childhood: Style, Philosophy, and the 'Post-It' of Global Childhoods - Andrew Gibbons & Marek TesarChapter 12: Rethinking Global Sociology of Childhoods - Sonja ArndtChapter 13: Posthumanism/New Materialism: the Child, Childhood and Education - Hillevi Lenz Taguchi & Christine ErikssonChapter 14: Research Methodologies with Young Children: Muddling in the Middle - Kylie SmithChapter 15: Black Geographies in Early Childhood Studies - Fikile Nxumalo, Nnenna Odim, & Alison SmithChapter 16: Figuring Gender in Early Childhood with Animal Figurines: Pursuing Tentacular Stories about Global Childhoods in the Anthropocene - Jayne Osgood & Sid MohandasChapter 17: Krishnamurti's Insights for Global Childhood Education and Research - Marina BasuChapter 18: Ni niño, ni ruiseñor/Not a child, nor a mockingbird: Decolonisation of Childhoods in Abya Yala - ximena galdames castilloChapter 19: Architecting Process-Oriented Research Methodologies in Early Childhood Education - Nikki RotasPart 3: Contemporary ChildhoodsPart 3 Introduction - Nicola J. YellandChapter 20: Childhoods for the Common Good: The Educational Project of Reggio Emilia - Stefania GiamminutiChapter 21: (R)existence in the Borderlands: Immigrant Children in the United States - Angeles Maldonado & Beth Blue Swadener Chapter 22: Homeless and Street Connected Childhoods: Contemporary Challenges within International Convention Frameworks - Dimitrina Kaneva & Su CorcoranChapter 23: Multimodal Childhoods: Lifeworlds and Lived Experiences of Young Children in Pedagogic Cultures - Lorna Arnott & Nicola YellandChapter 24: Learning with Place: Innovative Pedagogies for Climate Action - Jeanne Marie Iorio & Catherine HammChapter 25: The Every/day Materialities of Children's School Lives - Casey MeyersChapter 26: Children After the Animal Turn: Child-animal Relations and Multispecies Scholarship - Pauliina Rautio, Tuure Tammi, & Riikka HohtiChapter 27: Play, Popular Culture and the Aesthetics of Play: Children as Cultural Critics - Haeny S. YoonChapter 28: Minds Nested in Nature - Jay GriffithsPart 4: Pedagogies and PracticePart 4 Introduction - Nikki FairchildChapter 29: The Importance of Early Childhood Education and Care for Hungarian Ethnic Minority Groups in Romania, Slovak Republic and Serbia - Eva MikuskaChapter 30: Untidying Child Development with a Picturebook: Disrupting Colonising Binary Logic in Teacher Education - Karin Murris, Rose-Anne Reynolds, Heloisa da Silva, & Luzia Aparecida de SouzaChapter 31: Seeing Beyond: Perspectives of Black and Minority Ethnic Children in English ECEC - Nikki Fairchild & Vini LanderChapter 32: On Being Led (astray) by (feral) Materials: Posthuman Research Practice in an outdoor ECEC Atelier - Lucy HillChapter 33: Construction of children's cultural identity in Chinese context: Understanding young children's perspectives via popular picture books - Fengling Tang, Pan Yue-Juan, & Niwen WuChapter 34: The Norwegian #barnehageopprør2016 (the 2016 kindergarten riots): Renewed acts of political and professional minor gestures - Ann Merete Otterstad & Constanse ElmenhorstChapter 35: From Policy to Pedagogy: Image of the Singapore Child - Wu Pinhui SandraChapter 36: Social Inequality in the Early Childhood Care and Education Practice in Nigeria - Hannah Olubunmi AjayiChapter 37: Quality Early Childhood Care and Education (ECCE) in India: Where do we stand? - Reetu ChandraPart 5: Creating Communities for Global ChildrenPart 5 Introduction - Lacey PetersChapter 38: Unpacking Children and Childhood in Indonesian Preschool Policy Documents - Ali Formen, Hani Yulindrasari, & Vina AdrianyChapter 39: Infants and Young Children in Alternative Care - Eunice LumsdenChapter 40: Pedagogic Resistance: Children's Play as Political Agency - Maria PersonsChapter 41: Children Walking Diverse Worlds: Facing the Trouble of a Settler Colonial Past and Present - Claudia Diaz-DiazChapter 42: Fostering Community and Environmental Sustainability in Early Childhood: A Project on Living Things in a Preschool Classroom - Lacey Peters, Eloah Decat, Victoria Damjanovic, Meaghan Mosher, Cassidy Dickson, & Janette HabashiChapter 43: Becoming ADHD in U.S. Public Early Childhood Classrooms: Childhood Amidst Accountability Policies - Kyunghwa LeeChapter 44: What deaf Children Think about deaf Education - Jennifer ScarboroChapter 45: Constructing an Inclusive Understanding of Rights from the Ground Up: Listening to Young Children Through an International Documentary Film Adventure - John Nimmo & Maria Thereza Oliva MarcilioChapter 46: Justice, Dignity and Respect: Love as an Organizing Principle in Global Childhoods - Chelsea Bailey, Janeth Christian Malela & Frank Mbele, Michell Naidoo, Michele Reich, Diego Pérez, Julie Nicholson, Anonymous & Lisette Garcia