Introduction and frame of the book / Niklas Pramling, Ingrid Pramling Samuelsson -- Learning to narrate: appropriating a cultural mould for sense-making and communication / Niklas Pramling, Elin Eriksen Ødegaard -- Mathematics in the preschool context / Elisabet Doverborg, Ingrid Pramling Samuelsson -- Opening doors for learning ecology in preschool / Susanne Thulin, Gustav Helldén -- Pictures of spring: aesthetic learning and pedagogical dilemmas in visual arts / Marie Bendroth Karlsson -- Didactic challenges in the learning of music-listening skills / Cecilia Wallerstedt -- Moral discoveries and learning in preschool / Eva Johansson -- Gender learning in preschool practices / Anette Hellman -- Democracy learning in a preschool context / Anette Emilson -- Early childhood literacy and children’s multimodal expressions in preschool / Elisabeth Mellgren, Karin Gustafsson -- Mind your step: representation and the trajectory of a circle-dance project with 6–8-year-old children / Niklas Pramling, Cecilia Wallerstedt -- Pedagogical quality in preschool: a commentary / Sonja Sheridan -- Didactics in early childhood education: reflections on the volume / Ingrid Pramling Samuelsson, Niklas Pramling.