Early Childhood Education in the United States

Dinah Volk is Professor Emerita of Early Childhood Education in the College of Education at Cleveland State University, Cleveland, OH, USA. She has taught children in the US and Latin America and has conducted research and published on the languages and literacies of young bilingual children, family engagement, and culturally relevant pedagogies. She is co-editor of Many Pathways to Literacy: Young Children Learning with Siblings, Peers, Grandparents and Communities (with Gregory and Long, 2004) and Navigating Languages, Literacies and Identities: Religion in Young Lives (with Lytra and Gregory, 2016). She is a board member of the Professional Dyads and Culturally Relevant Teaching project, organized by the Early Childhood Education Assembly of the National Council of Teachers of English.Liz Brooker was an early years teacher before returning to research and teaching at London University Institute of Education, UKin 1996. Her work has frequently examined early transitions in children's lives, from home to nursery and through the subsequent phases of schooling. She was an editor of Early Years until 2017.Pamela Oberhuemer is a Visiting Research Fellow at the State Institute of Early Childhood Research in Munich, Germany. Her main research and publication focus is on ECEC systems in the European context, particularly on cross-national issues relating to the early childhood workforce. She was an editorial board member of Early Years from 1998-2006 and joined the editorial team in 2007. Rod Parker-Rees is a Visiting Research Fellow at the Plymouth Institute of Education, University of Plymouth, UK, where he was formerly Coordinator of Early Childhood Studies. He has been a co-editor of Early Years since 1999. Once upon a time he was a nursery teacher in Bristol, UK.