Relationships with Families in Early Childhood Education and Care

Joanne Lehrer is an Associate Professor in the Department of Education at the University of Quebec in Outaouais, Canada. Fay Hadley is an Associate Professor of Early Childhood Education and the Director: Initial Teacher Education at the School of Education, Macquarie University, Australia. Katrien Van Laere works as a Senior researcher at VBJK (Centre for Innovation in the Early Years), Belgium. Elizabeth Rouse is an Associate Professor of Early Childhood Education at the School of Education, Deakin University, Australia.

Foreword: For a re-socialisation and re-politicisation of the parent-professional relationship- Michel Vandenbroeck



Introduction: Why we need to move beyond instrumentalization when discussing families and early childhood education and care- Joanne Lehrer, Katrien Van Laere, Fay Hadley, and Elizabeth Rouse

Section I: Disrupting Partnerships






Parent-centred partnerships: Early childhood educators addressing barriers to building reciprocal partnerships with parents- Fay Hadley and Elizabeth Rouse



Mothers, educators, and teachers contesting and transforming the metanarrative of pedagogicalisation in childcare and preschool- Joanne S. Lehrer, Nathalie Bigras, and Isabelle Laurin



" Will you please tell your wife…." fathers, second grade parents for young children?- Jan Peeters



Problematizing partnerships from the vantage point of children- Tanja Betz



Storylines and place: accessing kindergarten in remote Queensland- Sue Dockett and Bob Perry
Section II: Parent Perspectives




What Early Childhood Teachers need to know about fostering black children’s positive identification with blackness: foregrounding mother’s perspectives- Patricia Hall and Rachel Berman



Listening matters: Experiences of a migrant facilitator in listening to parents- Hanif Reza Jaberipour



Wait, watch and learn: Parental perspectives on difficult emotions in relationships with ECEC practitioners- Catharine Gilson



Centre partnerships through a Singaporean lens: The role of mothers, fathers, grandparents and domestic helpers- Angela Chng
Section III: Innovative Enactment of Partnerships




Shifting the balance of power for families through a strengths-based book gifting program- Lennie Barblett and Caroline Barratt-Pugh



Pedagogy-in-Participation: promoting a deep connectivity between children, families and practitioners- Joana de Sousaa and Inês Machadob



Decolonizing stories during the transition from childcare to school: Collaborating with indigenous families- Lisa Provencher, Andrea Maurice, and Kim Rud



They are who they are! Equity versus equality – our journey in overcoming the divide- Bernadette Hayes and Cindy Treverrow



Parents as first educators at Elmer Childcare Centre: A human-centred story of respect, inclusion and shared responsibilities- Katrien Van Laere, Nima Sharmahd and Liesbeth Lambert



Koala days-Parent partnership and heart connections in a ‘home early childhood centre’ setting- Anuja Jena-Crottet



Conclusion: A conversation about insights related to democratic relationships with families- Joanne Lehrer, Fay Hadley, Elizabeth Rouse, Katrien Van Laere, Silvia Blanch Gelabert, and Ute Ward