Section Editor Introduction: Critical Issues Essays
Abstract
When we, as editors, decided earlier this year to launch a new section of the journal,
focused on shorter essays addressing critical issues facing young children, families,
communities, and those in related fields including early childhood education, childhood
studies, and critical policy studies, we were unsure about what the response might be.
With a plethora of local to global issues, often linked systemically, affecting our work
and lives and those of the children and families with whom we work, our intention was
to provide a space for shorter critical personal narratives that spanned the “nested
contexts” (Lubeck, 1985) of early childhood and put us into dialogue with each other. As
editor of this section, I have been very pleased with the response to our call for essays in
terms the array of issues addressed, the growing global representation of authors and their
sites of work, and the themes linking personal experiences and reflections to issues and
provocations for the field.
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