Jeanne Marie Iorio is Senior Lecturer in Early Childhood Education at Victoria University, Melbourne, Australia. Her work includes co-advising the early childhood courses in the College of Arts and Education.Will Parnell is Department Chair of the Graduate School of Education's Curriculum and Instruction Department, Professor of Early Childhood Education, and Pedagogical Liaison to the Helen Gordon Child Development Center at Portland State University, USA.

2020 Society of Professors of Education Book Award Honorable Mention"This international collection of essays by early childhood practitioner-researchers embraces complexities and offers nuanced examples of the roles of qualitative and art-based methods in deepening our understanding of children’s lives, meaning making, and learning experiences. Drawing from a rich and accessible array of theories in practice, Meaning Making in Early Childhood Research respects many languages, stories, and arts-based opportunities for learning from and with children. It invites readers to reimagine spaces that honor children while engaging in playful, embodied, and expressive opportunities that deepen our understandings of childhood." —Beth Blue Swadener, Professor, Justice & Social Inquiry and Associate Director, School of Social Transformation, Arizona State University, USA

• 1. Vivid Life and Learning: Rendering Thorough Illustrations Rather Than Chopping Human Stories to Bits Will Parnell and Jeanne Marie Iorio 2. Crisis, Empowerment, and Learning in Early Childhood: Deepening Meaning Through Arts-Based Research and Action Research Will Parnell and Jeanne Marie Iorio 3. I Have a Voice. I Have a Story.: The Artistic Practice of Practitioner Research Heather J. Pinedo-Burns and Dana Frantz Bentley 4. Reggio’s Arpeggio: Becoming Pedagogical Through Autoethnography Peter Gouzouasis and Matthew Yanko 5. Aesthetic Experiences With Young Children in Hong Kong Carrie Ka Lee Ho 6. Reimagining Narratives of Place: Respectfully Centring Aboriginal Perspectives in Early Childhood Education Catherine Hamm 7. Ocean Swimmers: Re-Envisaging Relationality in MAPS, an Early Childhood Arts Research Project David Lines, John Roder and Chris Naughton 8. Collaborative Landscapes within Deleuze/Guattarian Affect and Assemblage: Aesthetic Notions of Place Explored by Preschool Immigrant Teachers, Parents and Children Patti Pente, Christine Massing and Anna Kirova 9. Listening to the Voices of Children Learning English as a Foreign Language: Implications for Early Childhood English Language Teachers Ming-Fang Hsieh 10. Rhizomes and Intra-Activity With Materials: Ways of Disrupting and Reimagining Early Literacy Research, Teaching, and Learning Candace R. Kuby 11. Multifaceted Storying Among Children and Preservice Teacher Bricoleurs: Ways to Gather and Care Elizabeth P. Quintero