uest Editor, Professor Eric Atmore is the Director of the Centre for Early Childhood Development; has a Doctorate in Education Policy Studies with a thesis on ECD policy in South Africa; founded the National Early Childhood Development Alliance in 2005 and the Cape Town Museum of Childhood in 2015; and is currently Extraordinary Associate Professor at the University of Stellenbosch Department of Education Policy Studies. Prof. Atmore brings us his selection of contributors who discuss different aspects