This book identifies and explores high quality work (and what shapes it) in early years education. It shows us children and adults variously working and playing, talking and communicating, learning and laughing, caring and sharing in a rich tapestry of case studies which highlight quality experiences and interactions. The Contributors, Acknowledgements, Introduction: the Search for Quality in the Early Years, a Quality Curriculum for the Early Years: Raising Some Questions, Play is Fun, but it's Hard Work Too! the Search for Quality Play in the Early Years, Why Involve me? Encouraging Children and their Parents to Participate in the Assessment Process, it's Nice Here, Now: Managing Young Children's Behavior, She'll have a Go at Anything: Towards an Equal Opportunities Policy, Contents, we Only Speak English Here, Don't we? Supporting Language Development in a Multilingual Context, People Matter: the Role of Adults in Providing a Quality Learning Environment for the Early Years, you Feel Like you Belong: Establishing Partnerships Between Parents and Educators, Look at me - I'm Only Two: Educare for Under - Three: the Importance of Early Experience, Looking to the Future: Concluding Comments, Bibliography, Index.