The latest scholarly research and debate from around the world on issues affecting the early childhood field.

In this issue of the Australasian Journal of Early Childhood the focus is on empowering the early childhood field, those who work within it and those who interact with it.

Contents:

• Editorial – Margaret Sims
• Early childhood teachers in contexts of power: Empowerment and a voice – Jenny Overton
• Learning with technology for pre-service early childhood teachers – Anne Campbell & Grazia Scotellaro
• Video interactions for teaching and learning (VITAL): Analysing videos online to learn to teach childhood mathematics – Joon Sun Lee, Herbert P. Ginsburg & Michael D. Preston
• Bottling the good stuff: Stories of hospitality and yarnin' in a multi-racial kindergarten – Alia Imtoual, Barbara Kameniar & Debra Bradley
• The Australian Early Development Index, who does it measure: Piaget or Vygotsky's child? – Joseph Agbenyega
• Marry the prince or stay with the family – that is the question: A perspective of young Korean immigrant girls on Disney marriages in the United States – Lena Lee
• Changing Schools: How policy implementation can impact on the literacy learning of mobile students – Andrea Lynch