Studying Babies and Toddlers Relationships in Cultural Contexts

Dr Liang Li is a senior lecturer at the Faculty of Education, Monash University, Australia. Research interests: family studies, cultural-historical studies, visual methodology, play and pedagogy, babies and toddlers development and education, teacher education, and children’s heritage language development. Contract: liang.li@monash.edu

Dr Gloria Quiñones is a lecturer at the Faculty of Education, Monash University, Australia. Research interests: cultural-historical, post-human perspectives and visual methodologies to understand baby and toddler education, teacher education, play and pedagogy, affect, place and space. Contact:  Gloria.quinones@monash.edu

Dr. Avis Ridgway is an adjunct research fellow at the Faculty of Education, Monash University, Australia.Research interests: visual methodology; early childhood social, cultural and historical influences on learning; infant-toddler learning and play; teacher education. Contact: avis.ridgway@monash.edu

The co-authors Ridgway, Li and Quiñones recently published Early Childhood Pedagogical Play. A cultural – historical interpretation using visual methodology (2015). Springer Science Series.