Overview
This collection explores key issues related to infant and toddler wellbeing, offering diverse international perspectives on how wellbeing is culturally understood. Scholars from Drawing from Australia, Aotearoa (New Zealand), Brazil, Greece, Norway, Portugal and the UK present local conceptualizations that contribute to a broader, global understanding of wellbeing. The international contributors examine wellbeing as a crucial construct, emphasising the importance of relationships, health, emotions, imagination, and professional practice in infant-toddler education. Their research covers various topics, including transitions, peer relationships, love, interactions with objects and environments, conceptualisations of time, pedagogical weaving, Indigenous knowledge, and intra-connectedness. This book highlights the significance of relationships—between people, places, objects, and time—in shaping wellbeing. It challenges readers to reconsider wellbeing as both central to pedagogy and deeply interconnected with humans, non-humans, and vibrant environments. Drawing on diverse theoretical frameworks and research projects, the collection offers rich, multifaceted insights into wellbeing across varied contexts.
Full Product Details
Author: Gloria Quinones ,
Andrea Delaune
Publisher: Springer International Publishing AG
Imprint: Springer International Publishing AG
Volume: 6
ISBN: 9783031893759
ISBN 10: 3031893751
Pages: 214
Publication Date: 17 June 2025
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Author Information
Gloria Quinones is an Associate Professor of Early Childhood Education at the Faculty of Education, Monash University, Australia. Her scholarship focuses on the intersection of emotions and wellbeing in early childhood education and care (ECEC). She has conducted extensive research on the role of emotions and play in young children's learning and development. Recent studies have explored conceptualising infant-toddler affective and play pedagogies, promoting the emotional wellbeing of early childhood educators. She is also deeply committed to examining how early education can address the challenges of climate change by fostering environmental awareness, resilience, and sustainable practices from the earliest years. Through this work, she aims to support both educators and families in contributing to a more sustainable and equitable world. Andrea Delaune is a Senior Lecturer in Early Childhood Education at Te Whare Wānanga o Waitaha | University of Canterbury and the Co-President of OMEP Aotearoa in New Zealand. Andrea’s research explores the role of the moral imagination in promoting the importance of teacher-child relationships as the basis of pedagogy. Her recent work examines teachers’ ways of ‘seeing’ the child to ethically and pedagogically respond. By expanding the moral and ethical boundaries of early childhood education, Andrea seeks to recentre teachers’ everyday teaching practices as a ‘lived philosophy’ that can enhance moral understandings of pedagogy within the context of richly imaginative everyday life of the teacher. As the Co-President of OMEP Aotearoa, Andrea is also involved in research projects that promote expanded conceptualisations of the rights of the child within the everyday context of the early childhood setting, including the right to be loved.
