Handbook of International Perspectives on Early Childhood Education

<p>The <i>Handbook of International Perspectives on Early Childhood Education</i> provides a groundbreaking compilation of research from an interdisciplinary group of distinguished experts in early childhood education (ECE) child development cultural and cross-cultural research in the psychological sciences etc. The chapters provide current overviews of ECE in Latin America and the Caribbean the Middle East Asia Australia Africa Europe the US and Canada and convey how ECE is multi-sectorial multi-cultural and multi-disciplinary undergirded by such disciplines as neuroscience psychological anthropology cross-cultural human development childhood studies and political science.</p>