The provision of early childhood development services is expanding in developing
countries. The rationale behind this expansion is rooted in developmental psychology, socio …

The history of early childhood education, care and development (ECD) in sub Saharan
Africa (SSA) is an under-documented area of study. Seeking to understand and document …

The term 'capacity building'has come into common usage in twenty-first century international
development. While the term means different things to different people, it is often used to …

This introductory chapter sets the stage for disabling dominant narratives in early care and
education and makes a case for reconstructing nuanced accounts for birth to 3 in Africa …

This thesis explores Early Childhood Care and Education (ECCE) stakeholders' accounts of
quality assessment in the Nigerian context from an educational including sociological …

In their introduction to a handbook on early childhood research, Farrell, Kagan and Tisdall
(2016) point out that the academic discourse of childhood studies has gained prominence …

This chapter looks at two sets of experiences. Seemingly quite different: indigenous
communities in Canada, and countries in Africa, but the two stories are intertwined and …

The timing of the invitation to develop this chapter was fortuitous. It came at a transition point
in a 25-year history of cross-cultural work when I was considering what might be extracted …

Claire McLachlan makes a case for a comprehensive approach to early-grade reading
instruction that is based on research into how children acquire and improve reading skills …

Original papers Original papers are not included in the electronic version of the dissertation.
Matengu, M., Korkeamäki, R.-L., & Cleghorn, A.(2019). Conceptualizing meaningful …