Introduction to the current issue of the International Critical Childhood Policy Studies Journal

With Hope and Sanctuary --Special Issue by J. Kroeger and I. Berger (Eds.) and Critical Policy Section Edited by Beth Blue Swadener

Abstract

This introduction to the co-edited Special Issue by Janice Kroeger and Iris Berger focuses on their collective concepts of hope and sanctuary in critical policy studies of childhood and early childhood education.  Seven articles are included in the special issue all with diverse ways of doing research, and expressing how their perspectives, ideas and research present ways to imagine hope as well as sanctuary in a time of fear, anxiety, and great difficulty globally as well as in different places and spaces.  In addition, a new section on Critical Childhood Policy Studies highlights two shorter articles with an introduction by the section editor (and journal editor) Beth Blue Swadener.  This new section will allow for current issues and policies to be discussed in more rapid ways, and we want to thank Beth Swadener and the two authors or short articles for responding to the serious issues in a more "rapid response" and more easily discussed way.