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This open access book addresses the growing trend in the field of early childhood education and care (ECEC) research named collaborative knowledge building in which researchers and ECEC personnel collaborate. This kind of research encompasses a number of approaches, such as design studies, action studies, Learning Studies, Lesson Studies, and combined research and development studies. There are important differences between these approaches, but they also share some features, which makes it possible to see them as examples of a particular tradition of knowledge building. Collaborative knowledge building constitutes close ties between developing practices of early childhood education and care, and generating empirically grounded theoretical knowledge. This book contributes to the methodology of practices-developing research by mapping this movement through exemplifying themes actualised in such studies, and through conceptualizing important and recurring gains and challenges. It also describes how the latter can be taken on.

Early childhood education. --- Education—Research. --- Teaching. --- Early Childhood Education. --- Educational Research. --- Pedagogy. --- Education --- Didactics --- Instruction --- Pedagogy --- School teaching --- Schoolteaching --- Instructional systems --- Pedagogical content knowledge --- Training --- practice-developing research --- researcher-teacher collaborative knowledge building --- inter-professions collaboration --- practice based mathematics education research --- toddlers’ mathematical development in Swedish preschools --- metacognitive approach to children’s learning --- Research-practice collaboration --- Competence development --- preschool education for immigrant children --- knowledge creating practices in partnership research --- Play-responsive teaching --- practice-based research --- foundational ethos of collaboration --- participatory-driven creative learning --- teachers as agents in the research process --- interprofessional dialogue (MIROR) --- de-reifying language in research --- Research. --- Educational research --- Educació infantil

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This open access book develops a theoretical concept of teaching that is relevant to early childhood education, and based on children’s learning and development through play. It discusses theoretical premises and research on playing and learning, and proposes the development of play-responsive didaktik. It examines the processes and products of learning and development, teaching and its phylogenetic and ontogenetic development, as well as the ‘what’ of learning and didaktik. Next, it explores the actions, objects and meaning of play and provides insight into the diversity of beliefs about the practices of play. The book presents ideas on how combined research and development projects can be carried out, providing incentive and a model for practice development and research. The second part of the book consists of empirical studies on teacher’s playing skills and examples of play with very young as well as older children.

Early childhood education. --- Educational psychology. --- Developmental psychology. --- Infant psychology. --- Language and languages-Study and. --- Early Childhood Education. --- Teaching and Teacher Education. --- Educational Psychology. --- Child and School Psychology. --- Infancy and Early Childhood Development. --- Language Teaching. --- Infants --- Child psychology --- Development (Psychology) --- Developmental psychobiology --- Psychology --- Life cycle, Human --- Education --- Development --- Child development. --- Teaching. --- Education—Psychology. --- Child psychology. --- School psychology. --- Language and languages—Study and teaching. --- Psychology, School --- Psychology, Applied --- Behavior, Child --- Child behavior --- Child study --- Children --- Pediatric psychology --- Child development --- Developmental psychology --- Didactics --- Instruction --- Pedagogy --- School teaching --- Schoolteaching --- Instructional systems --- Pedagogical content knowledge --- Training --- Development, Child --- Developmental biology --- Teaching --- Educational psychology --- Education—Psychology --- School psychology --- Infant psychology --- Language and languages—Study and teaching --- Teachers—Training of. --- School Psychology. --- Child and Adolescence Psychology. --- Language Teaching and Learning. --- Teachers --- Language and languages --- Training of. --- Study and teaching. --- Teacher education --- Teacher training --- Teachers, Training of --- Language and languages Study and teaching --- Study and teaching --- Language and education --- Language schools