Part I: Founding Principles to Playful Research Approaches
Chapter 1: Framing and Defining Play in Early Childhood - Elizabeth Wood & Liz Chesworth
Chapter 2: Young Children's Play, Voices and Rights in Research - Jane Murray
Chapter 3: Ethical considerations: Play for fun and play for data collection - Sue Dockett
Part II: Theoretical and Conceptual Frameworks for Playful Research
Chapter 4: Practitioner-enquiry: A Reflexive Method for Playful Pedagogy - Kate Wall, Lorna Arnott & Elaine Hall
Chapter 5: Pedagogical Documentation as a Thinking Companion - Alma Fleet & Jane Merewether
Chapter 6: Analysing and Interpreting Data from Research with Young Children: Faithfulness, Integrity and Trustworthiness in Eliciting Meaning - Cathy Nutbrown
Part III: Adapting Play-based Pedagogies as a Research Method
Chapter 7: Approaches to informed consent with young children - Lorna Arnott, Kate Wall, Loreain Martinez, Caralyn Blaisdell & Shannon Ludgate
Chapter 8: Using drawing as a playful research encounter with young children - Pauline Duncan
Chapter 9: Observing and interpreting embodied interactions: Interpreting Voice from Birth to 3 years - Lorna Arnott, Jonathan Delafield-Butt & Timothy J McGowen
Chapter 10: The use of pedagogical documentation and artistic languages in research with young children - Ioanna Palaiologou, Elisabetta Biffi & Franca Zuccoli
Chapter 11: Frame, explain and theorise: Using an App as a tool to interpret imaginary play with children and teachers - Marilyn Fleer
Chapter 12: Using playful methods to understand children's digital literacies - Pekka Mertala
Part IV: Research Resources from Early Childhood Education
Introduction to Part IV - Kate Wall & Lorna Arnott
Project 1 : Facilitating voice with our youngest children - Rhona Matheson, Starcatchers
Project 2: Being an Investigator in Our Learning Environment - Heidi Sairanen
Research Proposal 1: Investigating the perceptions of young children in school-based pretend play - Triona Stokes
Research Proposal 2: Playing and Being, Here and Now: adults using improvisation to join children aged 0 - 5 in free-play - Maddie Broad