Anette Hellman is associate professor in Education and works as a senior lecturer in the Faculty of Education, Communication and Learning at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden. Her research interests include issues related to cross-national comparative studies, critical childhood studies and social justice in education.Susanne Garvis is a professor and the current Chair of the Department of Education at Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne, Australia. Her research interests include early childhood education and teacher education.

• List of FiguresList of TablesIntroduction – Anette Hellman and Susanne Garvis1. Globalization and Child Education: Research in Early Childhood Education Through Five Decades – Pia Williams and Ingrid Pramling Samuelsson2. Transitioning Into Formal Education: One on the Journey to Achieve SDG 4 – Donna Pendergast, Katherine Main and Adelle Friswell3. Raising Children’s Sustainability Consciousness – Sally Windsor, Kalliopi Moraiti and Susanne Garvis4. The Good Childhood in the Nordic Countries: Insider and Outsider Perspectives – Judith T. Wagner, Stig Broström and Ingrid Pramling Samuelsson5. Children Taking Their Place in the Institutional Practice Through Their Photographic Voice – Lena O Magnusson and Annika Åkerblom6. Children Doing and Undoing Gender during the Circle-Time: Stories From a Kindergarten in Indonesia – Vina Adriany7. ‘I Have Always Been Speaking Finnish With My Children’: Supporting Children’s Heritage Language – Heidi Harju-Luukkainen8. Becoming a Respectable Future Citizen: Norms on Ideal Bodies, Food and Eating Among Children in Indonesian, Japanese and Swedish Early Childhood Education and Care – Anette Hellman9. Teaching Language Learners in the Science Classroom: A Case Study in a Norwegian Secondary School – Pål K. Bjartan and Heidi Harju-Luukkainen10. Everyday Life, National Crises and the Practice of Global Childhoods – Sue Saltmarsh11. Teachers’ Understanding of Children’s Needs in the Time of Coronavirus: Norms on Children Among Finnish and Swedish ECEC Teachers – Mia Heikkilä, Anette Hellman, Anna Rantala, Ann-Christin Furu and Anne LillvistEpilogue: Some Concluding Thoughts – Anette Hellman and Susanne GarvisNotes on Contributors

Anette Hellman is associate professor in Education and works as a senior lecturer in the Faculty of Education, Communication and Learning at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden. Her research interests include issues related to cross-national comparative studies, critical childhood studies and social justice in education.Susanne Garvis is a professor and the current Chair of the Department of Education at Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne, Australia. Her research interests include early childhood education and teacher education.

• List of FiguresList of TablesIntroduction – Anette Hellman and Susanne Garvis1. Globalization and Child Education: Research in Early Childhood Education Through Five Decades – Pia Williams and Ingrid Pramling Samuelsson2. Transitioning Into Formal Education: One on the Journey to Achieve SDG 4 – Donna Pendergast, Katherine Main and Adelle Friswell3. Raising Children’s Sustainability Consciousness – Sally Windsor, Kalliopi Moraiti and Susanne Garvis4. The Good Childhood in the Nordic Countries: Insider and Outsider Perspectives – Judith T. Wagner, Stig Broström and Ingrid Pramling Samuelsson5. Children Taking Their Place in the Institutional Practice Through Their Photographic Voice – Lena O Magnusson and Annika Åkerblom6. Children Doing and Undoing Gender during the Circle-Time: Stories From a Kindergarten in Indonesia – Vina Adriany7. ‘I Have Always Been Speaking Finnish With My Children’: Supporting Children’s Heritage Language – Heidi Harju-Luukkainen8. Becoming a Respectable Future Citizen: Norms on Ideal Bodies, Food and Eating Among Children in Indonesian, Japanese and Swedish Early Childhood Education and Care – Anette Hellman9. Teaching Language Learners in the Science Classroom: A Case Study in a Norwegian Secondary School – Pål K. Bjartan and Heidi Harju-Luukkainen10. Everyday Life, National Crises and the Practice of Global Childhoods – Sue Saltmarsh11. Teachers’ Understanding of Children’s Needs in the Time of Coronavirus: Norms on Children Among Finnish and Swedish ECEC Teachers – Mia Heikkilä, Anette Hellman, Anna Rantala, Ann-Christin Furu and Anne LillvistEpilogue: Some Concluding Thoughts – Anette Hellman and Susanne GarvisNotes on Contributors

Anette Hellman is associate professor in Education and works as a senior lecturer in the Faculty of Education, Communication and Learning at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden. Her research interests include issues related to cross-national comparative studies, critical childhood studies and social justice in education.Susanne Garvis is a professor and the current Chair of the Department of Education at Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne, Australia. Her research interests include early childhood education and teacher education.

• List of FiguresList of TablesIntroduction – Anette Hellman and Susanne Garvis1. Globalization and Child Education: Research in Early Childhood Education Through Five Decades – Pia Williams and Ingrid Pramling Samuelsson2. Transitioning Into Formal Education: One on the Journey to Achieve SDG 4 – Donna Pendergast, Katherine Main and Adelle Friswell3. Raising Children’s Sustainability Consciousness – Sally Windsor, Kalliopi Moraiti and Susanne Garvis4. The Good Childhood in the Nordic Countries: Insider and Outsider Perspectives – Judith T. Wagner, Stig Broström and Ingrid Pramling Samuelsson5. Children Taking Their Place in the Institutional Practice Through Their Photographic Voice – Lena O Magnusson and Annika Åkerblom6. Children Doing and Undoing Gender during the Circle-Time: Stories From a Kindergarten in Indonesia – Vina Adriany7. ‘I Have Always Been Speaking Finnish With My Children’: Supporting Children’s Heritage Language – Heidi Harju-Luukkainen8. Becoming a Respectable Future Citizen: Norms on Ideal Bodies, Food and Eating Among Children in Indonesian, Japanese and Swedish Early Childhood Education and Care – Anette Hellman9. Teaching Language Learners in the Science Classroom: A Case Study in a Norwegian Secondary School – Pål K. Bjartan and Heidi Harju-Luukkainen10. Everyday Life, National Crises and the Practice of Global Childhoods – Sue Saltmarsh11. Teachers’ Understanding of Children’s Needs in the Time of Coronavirus: Norms on Children Among Finnish and Swedish ECEC Teachers – Mia Heikkilä, Anette Hellman, Anna Rantala, Ann-Christin Furu and Anne LillvistEpilogue: Some Concluding Thoughts – Anette Hellman and Susanne GarvisNotes on Contributors