1. Letter from the Editors

   EditorialNotes Pages: 4 - 7

2. Globalising early childhood teacher education: A study of student life histories and course experience in teacher education

   • Ann Farell

   Articles Pages: 9 - 17

3. Un programme de maternelle quatre ans à mi-temps: La perception des parents et des intervenants scolaires

   • Claire Maltais
   • Yves Herry

   Articles Pages: 19 - 26

4. International perspectives on early childhood curricula

   • Pamela Oberhuemer

   Articles Pages: 27 - 37

5. Childcare practices in three Asian countries

   • Sham’ah Md. Yunus

   Articles Pages: 39 - 56

6. Constructing a family literacy program: Challenges and successes

   • Jenny Jay
   • Mary Rohl

   Articles Pages: 57 - 78

7. Analizado cuentos para enseñar matemáticas

   • José M Chamoso Sánchez
   • Margarita González Sánchezy
   • Laura Hernández Hernández

   Articles Pages: 79 - 93

8. Values at stake in late modernity relationships between maternal educational background, childrearing views, sanctions and children’s temperament

   • Dion Sommer

   Articles Pages: 95 - 116

9. Omep tsunami appeal

   Bulletin Board Pages: 117 - 117