Includes bibliographical references and index.

Back to modernity? Early childhood qualitative research in the 21st century / J. Amos Hatch ; Hermeneutic text analysis of play: exploring meaningful early childhood classroom events / Stuart Reifel ; Using digital video in field-based research with children: a primer / Daniel J. Walsh ... [et al.] ; The potential of focus groups to inform early childhood policy and practice / Sharon Ryan and Carrie Lobman ; Wanderings: doing historical research on early childhood education / Janice A. Jipson ; Action research in early childhood contexts / Frances O'Connell Rust ; Critical pedagogy and qualitative inquiry: lessons from working with refugee families / Elizabeth P. Quintero ; Surviving a methodological crisis: strategies for salvaging your classroom-based research when things go wrong in the field / Lisa S. Goldstein ; Never certain: research predicaments in the everyday world of schools / Susan Grieshaber ; Researching with children: the challenges and possibilities for building "child-friendly" research / Glenda macnaughton, Kylie Smith, and Karina Davis ; Decolonizing research in cross-cultural contexts / Beth Blue Swadener and Kagendo Mutua ; Who chooses what research methodology? / Jeanette Rhedding-Jones ; Assessing the quality of early childhood qualitative research / J. Amos Hatch.