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This book has showcased a wide range of research projects, and their philosophical considerations and methodological foundations. The potential of each to contribute to a greater understanding of infant and toddler voice has been foregrounded throughout. Along the way, each author has offered significant provocation regarding the nature of voice, its location and associated ability to contribute to such understanding through research. As such, the authors have signalled that a "listening" approach to voice is insufficient in research with very young children because it privileges verbal forms of communication as the primary means of understanding experience and seldom takes into account the elusive nature of hermeneutic endeavour. Throughout this book and in varying ways they have extended the notion of "voice" to embrace wider subjectivities and ways of knowing, being and becoming through the strategic employment of a range of philosophical lenses. In doing so, the authors respond to Lewis's (2010) call for more explicit and transparent research regarding voice, and for greater attention to the reflexive encounter of researchers in this regard. We therefore conclude this book with an expanded view of "voice"—as plural, corporeal, dialogic, visual and aural; and as an intersubjective research quest with our youngest that is in constant flux.

DOI: 10.1007/978-94-007-2394-8_9

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