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Table of Contents

IntroductionPart One: The nature of research Research as a tool The research process Paradigms, methods and knowledge Doing research as a beginning researcher Ethics in early childhood research Indigenous research Part Two: Analysis and design Design issues Quantitative designs and statistical analysis Qualitative designs and analysis Equity and research design Mixed-method designs Designing to scale: When size matters Part Three: The research process in action Surveys and questionnaires: An evaluative case study Interviewing young children Interviewing adults in an Indigenous community An ethnographic approach to researching young children's learning Action research Direct observation Case study Quasi-experimental research Appendix 1: Getting our terms right Glossary Index

About the Author

Professor Glenda Mac Naughton is Director of the Centre for Equity and Innovation in Early Childhood at the University of Melbourne, Australia Sharne A. Rolfe is Senior Lecturer at the Melbourne Graduate School of Education, Australia Iram Siraj-Blatchford is Professor of Early Childhood Education at the Institute of Education, University of London, UK