Early Years

Article	Citations
What does it (not) mean to be “Froebelian”?: exploring Scottish early years professionals’ perspectives	12
Parent–child play and coping: experiences of parents and young children during the pandemic	11
Mature play needs a mature player: experimental investigation of the effective scaffolding in the preschoolers’ play	11
Pre-service and in-service preschool teachers’ abilities to analyze and respond to children’s preconceptions: evidence from situational judgement tests	10
Challenges, struggles and needs in assessment: voices of early childhood teachers	10
Transition at a standstill: preschoolers’ motor development during the COVID-19 pandemic	9
Navigating ‘the bumpy road’ from research to practice: improving the impact of research on spatial reasoning practice with young children	9
An exploratory study of Chilean early childhood teachers’ professional learning communities	9
Encouraging and assessing preschool children’s musical creativity	9
A critical analysis of Chinese Early Childhood Education policy documents from the perspective of education for sustainable development	8
‘I can teach you that’: a study of musical interaction as a learning-generating practice in Swedish preschool everyday environments	8
Parents’ perspectives on inclusive practices in early childhood education and care: facilitators and barriers for children with Cerebral Palsy	8
Did you do something today, or did you solely play? Barriers and facilitators for the use of play in early childhood educational contexts	7
Supporting early years professional development to enhance high-quality conversational interactions in early childhood care and education settings: the ShREC approach	7
Content validity, aims and risks of self-assessment in centre-based childcare in the Netherlands: a mixed methods study	7
Bridging teachers’ beliefs and confidence: A DAP-TPACK framework for AR-integrated STEM education	5
Investigating the School Adjustment Process of Children in a Multicultural Preschool Classroom in the Context of Teacher and Peer Relations	5
School readiness: a qualitative analysis of early childhood education and first-grade teachers´ beliefs in Uruguay	5
Service children’s wellbeing in the context of three- to four-year-old Army children experiencing a parental deployment	5
Using art criticism to investigate aesthetic appreciation in children with high and low aesthetic judgment	5
The quality of nursery settings in Jamaica using ITERS-3; harnessing the lessons for improved practices in childcare facilities	5
Supporting childcare professionals in approaching multilingualism: insights from a collaborative process for professional development	5
Infant/toddler mentor teachers’ professional learning through weekly co-planning meetings with preservice teachers	5
Moments of togetherness: humour and playful interactions in the toddler peer group	5
Crisis and adaptability: a model of early childhood teacher resilience across five countries	5

Learning from COVID: recognising the centrality of the relational in early years practice and research	5
Wellbeing and adjustment processes in Early Childhood Education and Care centers in the post-Covid-19 era: the teachers’ perspective	4
Obituary: Liz Brooker April 1946–August 2022	4
Using action research to infuse nature-based loose parts play into the Kindergarten Program	4
Connecting teachers’ emotional support and young children’s self-regulated learning	4
Home-based early intervention services for children with disabilities in Saudi Arabia: opportunities and challenges from a specialists perspective	4
’We are teachers too’: reclaiming professionalism in early childhood education from within	4
Online reflective supervision training with early care and education supervisors	4
Physical touch as a pedagogical action for male preschool teachers and children in ECEC	4
Peer interactions and communicative engagement in a Montessori preschool: a case study in a mixed-age classroom	4
Taiwanese parents’ perspectives on the implementation of self‐determination for children with developmental delays in a family setting	4
Digital storytelling in early childhood education: teachers’ experiences	4
Learning through play or learning sexism through play? Why critical gender literacy matters in kindergarten education	4
‘We cry together every day’ – expressing complex emotion in research with early childhood practitioners	4
Is there a place for love in an early childhood setting?	4
Children’s transitions in early childhood education and care: various combinations of dis-/continuities	4
Compliance to compassion: how COVID-19 changed the way educators use social media to collaborate with families	3
A systematic review of technology-assisted preschoolers’ language learning: technologies, theoretical foundations, and implications	3
The effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on preschool teachers’ identity	3
The role of placement and practicum in the professional readiness of ECEC educators working with infants and toddlers	3
Exploring educators’ and parents’ perceptions of gender as a correlate of toddlers’ physical activity: two faces of the same coin?	3
Professionalization in early childhood education: how do educators craft their work?	3
Reconceptualising the third teacher: a study of trainee experiences of work-based learning on level 3 early years programmes	3
Fostering children’s racialized identities in early childhood education	3
Mentoring processes in kindergarten student teachers’ training	3
Promotion of traditional music culture in preschool piano education: integration of traditional music features	3
Construct validity of the sensory integration infant routines questionnaire (SIIRQ)	3
Fundamental motor skills enhancement in a preschool setting through a structured physical education programme	3
How kindergarten teachers in China create conditions for children’s mathematics concept learning	3
Universal mental health support in the early years in the context of the UK: early years professionals’ views	3
Examining the relationship between four to six year olds' school readiness levels and their parents’ tolerance of risky play	3
Promoting professionalism and quality in preschool practice with the youngest children through action research	3
Quality in children’s digital picture books: seven key strands for educational reflections for shared dialogue-based reading in early childhood settings	2
‘I can’t teach without ICT’: unpacking and problematising teachers’ perceptions of the use of ICT in kindergartens in China	2
Norwegian ECEC teachers’ play practices with children aged 2-3 years	2
Closing the equity gap? An overview of progress toward implementing South Africa’s national integrated early childhood development policy	2
How do early childhood education leaders shape professional learning communities?	2
Initial teacher training and early childhood education in Spain: the commitment to inclusion and eco-social issues	2
Inclusive active play curriculum in pre-service Canadian early childhood education programs	2
The relationship between preschool teachers’ sense of teaching efficacy and turnover intention during the COVID-19 pandemic: a mediation model	2
How parents read young learners’ digital engagement: a posthumanist inquiry into the temporality of co-evolving learning practices in AI game space	2
Toddlers’ attachment behaviours and the quality of their transitions from home to kindergarten	2
Creating Conditions for Chinese Kindergarten Teachers’ Professional Development in a Play-based Setting	2
Building professionalism through professional associations and unions	2
Preschool outdoor education environment quality predicts children’s environmental attitude, awareness and affinity towards nature (biophilia)	2
Can we play with science? Preschool teachers’ discussion about play-responsive teaching and how science content can be introduced into play with support of digital tools	2
When environmental knowledge falls short: how collectivism shapes pro-environmental attitudes and behaviors of early childhood educators	2
Standing at the door: a sociomaterial approach to understanding parental involvement in ECEC	2
Early childhood preservice teachers’ learning about children’s metacognitive thinking processes and constructivist pedagogy	2
Children’s involvement in home-based childcare: are boys more susceptible to caregiver sensitivity than girls?	2

The role of parents’ gender in parenting attitudes and parental permission to engage in risky play	2
Influencers of high-quality infant and toddler programmes: structural and process quality in Aotearoa New Zealand	2
Early childhood education professionals’ mentalization: a pilot study	2
The role of teachers in, and the importance of, self-discovery for developing science process skills	2
“Oh, you’ve never done that before?!” Preservice teachers being ‘stirred in’ to unfamiliar practices with infants and toddlers	2
How does nature support early language learning? A systematic literature review	2
‘He will play because it is play’. Exploring Ghanaian early years parents’ ethno-theories about play and learning	2
Preschool teachers' pedagogical knowledge, awareness and perspectives of early childhood mathematics education	2
‘Nobody left behind’: barriers to engagement in early years digitally mediated leadership development	2
Ukrainian refugee children in Czech early childhood settings: why some families are more successful than others when integrating into a new environment	2
A comparison between preschool children’s verbal participation during the shared reading of a wordless and a text-based rendition of Aesop’s fable The Lion and the Mouse	1
Nurturing considerate minds: kindergarten classroom as Trailblazer	1
Preschoolers’ and their parents’ mental health and wellbeing during the COVID-19 pandemic in Estonia and Germany	1
Concepts of early childhood learning and development in Cameroon, West Africa	1
Empowering little learners: revolutionizing distance learning (DL) for Tabuk Region kindergarten students with disabilities	1
bell hooks and Picture Books: Equity in Early Childhood Education	1
Making toddlers’ numerical competence visible – without relying solely on verbal utterances	1
Impact of kindergarten teachers’ scientific processing skills training on children’s science and mathematics development	1
The policy-research-practice triangle in New Zealand early childhood education: Complexities, impossibilities and silences	1
Barriers to involvement in parenting activities in school-based preschools in disadvantaged neighbourhoods in Canada	1
Whole School, Whole Community, Whole Child model: a holistic evaluation of the health-promoting capacity of early childhood institutions in Turkey	1
Correction	1
Comparing teachers’ and parents’ perspectives on early childhood literacy education	1
Enhancing quality: the influence of educational resources on preprimary schools in Gambella Regional State, Ethiopia	1
Birth to 3: a critical space for early childhood workforce transformation in South Africa	1
Measuring the impact of concept knowledge and laboratory intervention on pre-service kindergarten teachers’ pedagogical content knowledge in science education	1
Thinking out of feeling: Vygotsky and the emotional transition from early childhood to school age in Korean Language	1
Building professionalism: Chilean ECEC leaders’ views on their participation in professional associations	1
Fostering excellence: professional associations and the cultivation of teachers’ professional identities	1
The development of Birth to Five Matters guidance : reflections on the critical agency and collective advocacy of an English early childhood coalition	1
Perceptions of teachers regarding enhancing early literacy skills among deaf pre-primary children in Tanzania	1
Beyond the rules, behind a smile: children’s oppositional actions in nurseries	1
Adjustment to preschool after COVID-19 in Turkey: teachers’ perspectives	1
An exploratory study of early childhood coaches’ practices and professional learning needs	1
International perspectives on early childhood education curriculum development: reflections on a documentary review	1
Peer-mediated education and autism spectrum disorder (ASD) in preschool inclusive programs: the power of games	1
Value in time: associations between early childhood educators’ time stress and curriculum implementation	1
Preschool children’s understanding of the musical concept of tempo by engaging in strategies from mathematical generalisation	1
Augmented reality-enhanced drama: fostering social information processing in early childhood*	1
‘I’d like to find out more about what we can actually do after this degree because I’m not 100% sure’: exploring emergent and divergent aspirations of Early Childhood undergraduates	1
The effects of board games on math skills in children attending prekindergarten and kindergarten: A systematic review	1
Exploring disaster literacy: early childhood education teachers’ perspective on school safety	1
An infant-toddler field experience in resistance to settler colonialism in teacher preparation: perspectives and practices of teachers and teacher candidates	1
Anthropocentric and ecocentric epistemological orientations toward sustainability among Turkish preschool teachers	1
The preschool teachers’ union in Iceland: a critical analysis of influence and challenges	1
On becoming an infant-toddler pedagogue: perceived contributions of heuristic play in initial professional education	1
Diversity and inclusion in the Australian Early Years learning framework: multiculturalism, interculturalism and intersectionality	0
Pathways to educational integration: affordances and constraints on migrant children's participation in Swedish preschool teaching activities	0
The ‘it’ factor: expectations of ‘good’ early childhood teachers in Australia	0
Transformations in becoming critical scholars in ECEC: a duoethnography of two women of color in higher education	0
Country-specific narratives of the professional preparation of infant–toddler teachers in Hong Kong China, Aotearoa New Zealand and the USA	0
Understanding the complicated process of early childhood curriculum innovation from the lens of actor–network theory: a case study in a Chinese kindergarten	0
Participation of 1- to 3-year-old children in the early childhood education and care community: a question of borderwork	0
Individual physical expression from onomatopoeia in young Japanese children: the process from movements to images	0
Text quality evaluation of children’s Russian/English dual-language books	0
Math or math pedagogical content knowledge for early childhood teachers? The math requirements on certification exams across the States	0
What factors are associated with the development of children under 3 years old during the pandemic?	0
Competency of early childhood teacher educators: the perspectives of teaching and research officers in China	0
Analysing design features of children’s apps through an intersectional pedagogical lens	0
Doing space of participation in children’s peer relations in early childhood education	0
Ghanaian kindergarten teachers’ curriculum knowledge and perspectives on play-based learning: does teacher qualification matter?	0
Teacher–child interactions during picture book reading in Chinese preschool classrooms: a comparative study of novice and experienced teachers	0
Educators’ perspectives of play and math in kindergarten	0
Negotiations of subject positions and belonging when children transition within early childhood education and care institutions	0
Supporting parents through ECEC services: impact evaluation of a parenting support model in an area of disadvantage	0
The effect of early engineering education with illustrated children’s books on geometry and spatial perception skills	0
Investigating multi-tasking and task rotation as aspects of the complexity of early childhood educators’ work	0
Respect through different lenses: a cross-cultural curriculum study of China and Aotearoa New Zealand	0
Culturally sustaining picture books about sensitive topics for young readers	0
Telling stories of learning and beyond: using the learning story approach to help kindergarten teachers to conceptualise play-based teaching and learning in China	0
Understanding the leadership perceptions of ECE leaders in Israel	0
Strengthening infant and toddler pedagogy through an online specialised postgraduate qualification: building on initial teacher education and teaching experience	0
Rehabilitate defectology! Teaching foundation reading as compensation	0
How does emotional intelligence develop in early childhood?: a meta-analysis of two perspectives on emotional intelligence	0
Introducing cultural-historical genetic-analytical model for studying child’s play: the matryoshka principle – situations within situations covered by situations	0
Does device use harm cognitive functioning in early childhood? Exploring the effects on inhibitory control with 3.5-year-olds in the U.S.	0
Unspoken and tangled perspectives of heterosexual and LGBTQ+ practitioners and parents on inclusion for same-sex parented families in Australian early childhood settings	0
STEAM education with young learners: five different design processes	0
Home support for mathematics and early literacy activities in early childhood period: comparison with pre-COVID-19 findings	0
Participation and influence of welfare associations in early childhood education in legislative procedures in Germany	0

Creating spaces called hope: the critical leadership role of owner/managers in developing outdoor pedagogies for infants and toddlers	0
Orchestrating multiactivity in flexibly scheduled early childhood education and care	0
Using picturebooks to support student teachers to address complex social justice issues in early childhood education settings	0
Preparing and supporting professionals working with infants and toddlers	0
Scoping review on same-age and mixed-age groups in early childhood education and care	0
(Re)thinking mobility justice in early learning standards through an intersectional lens	0
‘It is not that we decide that now we do that ’: A case study on preschool teachers´ didactical leadership as expressed during collegial meetings	0
Toddler-educator decontextualised talk and its value for toddlers’ learning	0
Building professionalism in early childhood development in South Africa: professional associations and unions	0
Governance of early childhood professionals. Why bother?	0
Re-mediation in early childhood teachers’ reasoning about their role in play: an empirical study of the learning process of a work team	0
The concept of death in 4 to 5 year old Hong Kong Chinese children	0
Effects of teachers’ experience and beliefs on the frequency of math teaching*	0
Considerations of quality: examining theoretical perspectives informing infant and toddler pedagogy in Aotearoa/New Zealand	0
Nurturing the nurturer: enacting transformative infant-toddler teacher preparation through reflective practice	0
Young children’s expression of gender and sexuality a multimodal research method	0
Physical activity in preschool: the role of employees’ motives and participation in children’s physical activity	0
Pedagogical beliefs, practices and assessment in pre-primary education: alignments and disconnects in Ethiopian preschools	0
Languages and identities: locating intersectional pedagogies in Aotearoa New Zealand’s and Australia’s early childhood curriculum	0
Examining relationships and sexuality education through a child rights approach: an intersectional pedagogy in Vietnam’s ethnic minority area	0
Educational interventions for deaf and hard-of-hearing children in preschool: a systematic review	0
‘It’s the little bits that you have enabled me to see’. Reconceptualising the voices of babies using the video interaction dialogue model with early years educators	0
Preventing violence against children (0–3 years) in nurseries: effectiveness of participatory training	0
(Care)fully reconstituting cruel professionalism with and for early childhood educators: how caring activism can resist uncaring conditions	0
Dividing times: the views of early adopters of a new assessment framework on mathematics in England	0
Object recognition in infancy: towards an embodied skeletal shape model of word identification	0
Do kindergarten teachers’ art skills matter? Evidence from the triangulated perspectives of Chinese stakeholders	0
Psychological contract and career success among Chinese preschool teachers: the mediating role of work engagement and the moderating role of regulatory focus	0
Early literacy, early numeracy and executive functions of French Kindergartners in Montessori and conventional environments	0
How do leaders shape teacher autonomy? A multilevel study from Chinese kindergartens	0
Pedagogical boundary work: when the welfare state becomes entangled with family affairs	0
Resisting ‘Universal Nursery Policy Project’ in Chile: Early Childhood Education Professional Associations and Unions reconceptualizing neoliberal professionalism	0
The reality of research with young children: ethics, agency and children’s linguistic backgrounds	0
Developing social and cognitive skills among Arab parents of preschool children with behavioral disorders	0
Reconceptualising professional learning and development through a Froebelian lens: early childhood educators’ perspectives on professional identities in the UK and Italy, where is the love?	0
Educators’ narratives about everyday work of early childhood education and care in the culturally diverse North	0
Organizational justice and work engagement among Chinese preschool teachers: a moderated mediation model	0
Job stress and teacher burnout in preschools – Preliminary assessment of the buffer effect of job resources in the stressor-strain model in a lower-middle-income country	0
An empirical study of perlocutionary acts in the pragmatic development of preschool children—based on self-built oral language corpora for preschool children	0
Advancing equity and inclusion in early childhood education through intersectional pedagogy	0
Preschool teachers’ perceptions of a curriculum-integrated video-based yoga program	0
Complexities and dynamics of children’s learning and development context: case studies of second-generation Chinese Australian children’s transition to school	0
List of reviewers from 2024	0
Cell phones as ‘super props’: children’s language development in sociodramatic play	0
The effects of number naming systems and age factor variables on counting skills: Turkish and Dutch children	0
Effects of caring climate on career commitment for preschool teachers: the mediating roles of interpersonal trust and cooperative learning	0
Participation profiles in Chilean ECE professional associations and unions: assemblages of agency and professional field orientation	0
Pedagogical coaches in childcare: opening the black box between input and output	0
Teachers’ perceptions and pedagogical practices: a qualitative study of digital technology use in Chinese kindergartens	0
Examining the effects of an intervention program on early childhood teachers’ sense of wellbeing and burnout	0
If you give them the chance, they will thrive: exploring literacy development through the arts in early childhood education	0
Empowering early childhood educators: unveiling the impact of professional development on physical education teaching in Spain	0
Alice’s rabbit: Vygotsky, Halliday, and the subtle science of showing what you mean	0
Beneficial or debilitating: a qualitative inquiry into Chinese preschool teachers’ workload-related stress mindset	0
Does work-to-family conflict influence teacher relational attitude in pre-school classrooms? A stressor–strain–outcome perspective	0
The relationship between early childhood education quality, subjective well-being, and development in preschoolers in China	0
A case study of young children’s play negotiations in free play	0
Supporting educators’ emotional work with infants and their families around transitions at the start of the day	0
Young children’s writing in traditional and digital contexts	0
Art in preschool: how does it support children’s attention and visual perception development?	0
Supervisory discussions during the early childhood education and care student teacher practicum period – the cultural scripts, phases and discourses	0
Early care and education professionals’ perspectives on mealtime in the US and Taiwan	0
Pedagogical documentation and action-research processes as strategies for high-quality Early Childhood Education Teaching. A case study in Spain	0
Shadowing methodology and the role of the Educational Leader	0
“Disregarded and undervalued”: early childhood teacher’s experiences of stress and anxiety during the COVID-19 pandemic	0
Multivocal perspectives on children’s belonging in peer relationships in early childhood education and care	0
List of reviewers from 2022	0
The intersection of counter terrorism with early childhood education and care policy in England – the power of the panoptic schema	0
Rethinking quality: the politics of naming, normalizing, and naturalizing in early childhood education and care	0
Transition to primary school from preschool education: an ethnographic study	0
Exploring the experiences of parents and young children during the COVID-19 outbreak	0
Early childhood education and care context and cortisol from saliva and hair among 3–6-year-old children	0
Preschool teachers’ perceptions on the use of questioning strategy during storytelling to develop children’s critical thinking in Central China	0
The intersection of diversity and unity: professional identity of immigrant early childhood educators in Australia	0
Digital content preferences, digital game orientations and developmental domains in young children	0
An analysis of the factors affecting access to the early childhood education and care: a systematic literature review and bibliometric analysis	0
The importance of the quality of the end of Piklerian dressing care in fostering emotional bonding: a systematic observation	0
Deep listening to the language of drawing in children’s experiential activities	0
Creative activities and self-fulfilment in early childhood education	0
‘Why does she have dark skin?’: the ways Black women early childhood educators engage in intersectional pedagogies	0
Relationships between teacher–child relationships, resilience, and emotional competence: an empirical study of left-behind children in regional China	0
‘It’s not cardboard, it’s a house’: cartographies of agentic assemblage in the early childhood classroom	0
The moderating role of school culture in teacher–child interactions and child outcomes in a disadvantaged area of southwestern China	0
The process of becoming a nursery caregiver: the interactive perspective	0
List of Reviewers from 2025	0
Parent–professional partnership in promoting school readiness skills for children with disabilities entering first grade	0
Self-efficacy in early childhood teachers in rural China - an exploration of the influence mechanisms of psychological capital and teacher-child relationships	0
Ongoing attachments with stuffed toys: conceptualizing childhood and teaching through transitional objects	0
Exploring intersectionality and critical multimodal literacy through a children’s picture book about forced displacement and child refugees	0
A better classroom than we have: children imagine and draw their ideal classroom	0
Pre-primary educators’ views on peace education as a strategy for building a sustainable society in Tanzania	0
Working with families: an investigation of early childhood educators’ emotional labour and wellbeing	0
Exploring leadership in private ECEC in Chile: perspectives from the field	0
Chinese early childhood teachers’ perspectives on mathematics education in play-based contexts	0
List of reviewers from 2023	0