ForewordRosie Flewitt (University College of London, UK)Section One: Studying children’s contemporary play Cut it out! Materiality and Action in Children’s Play and Toymaking Karen Wohlwend & Jaye Johnson Thiel Indiana University, USA Chestcam tales: Exploring embodied ethnography with young children Jackie Marsh, University of Sheffield, UK The development of childhood cultures Anne Haas Dyson, Illinois University, USA Section Two: Studying specific groups of children Meeting the needs of students in a multilingual classroom: Linking Research to Practice Rahat Zaidi, University of Calgary, Canada Research with children with SEN Melissa Allen, Lancaster University, UK Children from diverse backgrounds Jim Anderson, British Columbia Section Three: Studying children’s practices at home and in lab settings Learning at home Laidlaw, O’Mara & Wong, Deakin University, Australia Community-based research Pam Whitty, University of New Brunswick, Canada Using magnetic resonance imaging in infants and young children and its implication for bridging the fields of Neuroscience and Education Nadine Gaab, Harvard University, USA Section Four: Children’s global practices and movement through space "Talk into my GoPro, I’m making a movie!" Using digital ethnographic methods to explore children’s experiences in the woods Debra Harwood & Diane Collier, Brock University, Canada Deep hanging out: artifactual literacies and ethnographic methods Margaret Somerville & Sarah Powell, Western Sydney University, Australia Getting away from the screen: the play affordances of Internet connected toys Donell Holloway, Edith Cowan University, Australia Section Five: Studying children’s learning with others This is the stuff that literacies are made of: Researching children’s learning with grandparents and other elders through ethnographic methods Rachel Heydon, & Xiaoxiao Du, University of Western Ontario, Canada Children and parents interacting together with an app support Kathy Sylva & Fiona Roberts, University of Oxford, UK Children learning in their families Tisha Lewis, University of Georgia, USA Section Six: Children’s learning through body, embodiment and haptics Embodiment Kerryn Dixon, Wits University, South Africa Technologies, affordances, children and (embodied) reading: a call for intedisciplinarity Anne Mangen, Trude Hoel, Thomas Moser, University of Oslo, Norway Valuing Signs of Learning: A Multimodal Perspective on Observation and Digital Documentation in Early Years Classrooms Kate Cowan, University College London, UK Section Seven: Studying reading and interacting on screen Eye-tracking and e-books Zsofia Takacs, Eötvös Loránd University, Hungray Lab-based studies of children’s reading on screen Brenna Hassinger and Rebecca Dore, University of Delaware, USA Visual methods for studying children’s interactions on screen Abi Hackett & Lucy Caton, Manchester Metorpolitan University, UK Section Eight: Children’s multiliteracies Who's helping who?: Young children seeking help when learning to write Annette Woods, Queensland University of Technology, Australia Children’s literature and critical literacy Peggy Albers, Georgia State University, USA, together with Vivian Vasquez and Jerry Harste Methodologies without methodology: (Re)imagining research practices when thinking with poststructural and posthumanist theories Candace Kuby, Missouri University, USA Section Nine: Children’s drawing, mark-making and arts Studying science apps in low-income pre-schools Lena Lee, Miami University, USA Storying as a methodology in early years classrooms Cathy Burnett and Guy Merchant, Sheffield Hallam University, UK Student generated visual narratives: lived experiences of learning Narelle Lemon, La Trobe University, Australia Arts-based methods Linda Knight, Queensland University of Technology, Australia