Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction : inclusive pedagogy as an ethics of responsibility and care / Carmel Conn and Alison Murphy

Part 1. Theoretical perspectives on inclusive pedagogy

The children's right approach to early childhood education : policy and context in Wales / Alison Murphy and Jane Waters-Davies

Placing inclusion at the heart of things : the 'tricky challenge' for educational leadership / Matt Hutt

Seeing children's learning subjectivities for inclusive pedagogy in early childhood education / Carmel Conn

Children's agency and negotiation of space for enabling environments : the use of tuff spots for practitioner education / Claire Pescott

Part 2. Using research to develop inclusive pedagogies

Socialising a pedagogy of care in a New Zealand early childhood refugee centre / Amanda Bateman and Linda Mitchell

Social embodiment in early childhood education for children with PMLD / Ben Simmons

Foundation phase teachers' understandings and enactment of participation in school setting in Wales / Alison Murphy, Jacky Tyrie, Jane Waters-Davies, Sarah Chicken and Jennifer Clement

Using an environmental affordance perspective to consider children's 'challenging behaviour' in the classroom and at forest school / Angela Rekers

Inclusion, participation and interaction : challenging the discourse of in-class ability groupings in early childhood education / Eleri John

The capable child as a threshold concept for inclusive early childhood education and care / Jane Waters-Davies and Natalie Macdonald