Studying Babies and Toddlers ― Relationships in Cultural Contexts

The editors of this book have brought together contributors from many parts of the world. As such, the book offers a truly diverse, international flavour reflecting a broad range of research on babies and toddlers. Examining examples from both Eastern and Western cultures, the book’s overarching focus is on relationships, yielding a coherence beneficial to early childhood researchers and educators alike. 

Employing visual methodologies to help bring the chapters to life, the varied research studies presented concern babies’ and toddlers’ relationships and cultural contexts. Taken together, they offer a unique opportunity to conceptualise the use of a wholeness approach for studying babies and toddlers – our youngest citizens. 

Dr Liang Li is a senior lecturer at the Faculty of Education, Monash University, Australia. Research interests: family studies, cultural-historical studies, visual methodology, play and pedagogy, babies and toddlers development and education, teacher education, and children’s heritage language development. Contract: liang.li@monash.edu

Dr Gloria Quinones is a lecturer at the Faculty of Education, Monash University, Australia. Research interests: cultural-historical, post-human perspectives and visual methodologies to understand baby and toddler education, teacher education, play and pedagogy, affect, place and space. Contact: Gloria.quinones@monash.edu

Dr. Avis Ridgway is an adjunct research fellow at the Faculty of Education, Monash University, Australia.

Research interests: visual methodology; early childhood social, cultural and historical influences on learning; infant-toddler learning and play; teacher education. Contact: avis.ridgway@monash.edu

The co-authors Ridgway, Li and Quinones recently published Early Childhood Pedagogical Play. A cultural – historical interpretation using visual methodology (2015). Springer Science Series.