1. Changing paradigms in early childhood education: critical perspectives on diversity and difference in doing social justice in early childhood education -- 2. Doing feminist poststructuralist theory with early childhood educators -- 3. Local and global social relations: critical perspectives on class and inequality -- 4. 'It's more than black dolls and brown paint': critical multiculturalism, whiteness and early childhood education -- 5. Families as performative social spaces: reconceptualizing the family for social justice -- 6. Bilingualism, identity and english as a globalized language -- 7. Gender performativity in early childhood education -- 8. The lion, the witch and the c̀loset': dealing with sexual identity issues in early childhood education -- 9. The challenge of diversity and difference to early childhood education