December 14, 2023

Finishing a book: Early Childhood Voices: Children, Families and Professionals

Today I finished everything that needed to be done for the permissions and revised chapters  for our book that will be published by Springer titled "Early Childhood Voices: Children, Families and Professionals"

I haveco-edited the book with Linda Mahony, Andi Salamon and Jenny Dwyer and have co-authored chapters 1, 9, 10, 12, 16, and 18.

  1. Why the Voices of Young Children Matter -  Linda Mahony, Sharynne McLeod, Andi Salamon and Jenny Dwyer 
  2. Space, Voice, Audience, and Influence: The Lundy Model and Early Childhood - Carmel Ward and Laura Lundy Listening to Children in their Daily Context 
  3. Language and Life: Going into Space - Stephen Kemmis and Andi Salamon 
  4. Infant Emotional Capital Practices as Voice in Research and Pedagogy - Andi Salamon 
  5. Contributing to SDGs through Conceptual PlayWorlds: Changing the STEM Story for Children, Families and Teachers - Anne Suryani, Susan March, Marilyn Fleer and Prabhat Rai 
  6. Children’s Mathematical Graphics Illustrating Inner Voices: A Literature Review - Jenny Dwyer, Amy MacDonald and Shukla Sikder 
  7. Early Childhood Friendships as a Significant Value of Education for Sustainability: The Voices of Young Children and Educators - Tamara Pribišev Beleslin and Sanja Partalo 
  8. “Ears to Listen so I can Hear”: A Holistic Self-Report Tool of Children’s Listening at Preschool - Lysa Dealtry and Laura McFarland 
  9. Jamaican Children’s Drawings of Talking in Jamaican Creole and English - Karla Washington, Rachel Wright Karem, Corrine Macaluso, Cecilia Schwartz and Sharynne McLeod 
  10. Vietnamese-Australian Families: Children’s Language Competence and Home Language Maintenance - Van H. Tran, Sharynne McLeod, Sarah Verdon, Kate Margetson and Ben Phạm 
  11. Many Voices, Many Languages: Listening and Learning from South African Children - Michelle Pascoe, Mikateko Ndhambi, Olebeng Mahura, Nomfundo Peaceful Buthelezi, Nicole Husselmann and Babalwa Ludidi 
  12. When are Speech Sounds Learned and Why is this Important for Children to be Heard? - Sharynne McLeod, Kathryn Crowe and Jane McCormack
  13. Giving Voice to Young Children Navigating Complex Life Challenges through a Strengths Approach - Linda Mahony and Angela Fenton 
  14. After the Disaster: Facilitating Children to Talk of their Feelings and Experiences - Sarah Eagland, Michael Curtin and Tracey Parnell 
  15. Peep in the Pandemic: Peep Practitioners Listening to Parents and Families - Hannah Hale, Elspeth McCartney and Muriel MacKenzie Professionals Learning from Listening to Children 
  16. Sustainable Leadership Approaches to Retain Early Childhood Educators - Belinda Downey, Will Letts and Sharynne McLeod 
  17. Multimodal Analyses of Children’s Voices as a Means for Critical Teachers’ Education - Fernanda Liberali, Emilia Cipriano Sanches and Sandra Cavaletti Toquetão 
  18. Refusing to Silence Early Childhood Voices: The Establishment of the Early Childhood Voices Conference - Sharynne McLeod, Carolyn Gregoric, Tamara Cumming and Belinda Downey