European Early Childhood Education Research Journal

Article	Citations
International responses to COVID-19: challenges faced by early childhood professionals	67
What do young children have to say? Recognising their voices, wisdom, agency and need for companionship during the COVID pandemic	51
Children ‘under lockdown’: voices, experiences, and resources during and after the COVID-19 emergency. Insights from a survey with children and families in the Lombardy region of Italy	49
Using Artificial Intelligence (AI)-interfaced robotic toys in early childhood settings: a case for children’s inquiry literacy	43
COVID-19 and early childhood in Brazil: impacts on children’s well-being, education and care	34
‘Uncharted territory’: teachers’ perspectives on play in early childhood classrooms in Ireland during the pandemic	31
Children and teachers engaging together with digital technology in early childhood education and care institutions: a literature review	29
How do activity settings, preschool teachers’ activities, and children’s activities relate to the quality of children’s interactions in preschool? Findings from Austria	21
Corona pandemic in the United States shapes new normal for young children and their families	20
Barriers and facilitators for partnerships between parents with immigrant backgrounds and professionals in ECEC: a review based on empirical research	17
Factors modifying children’s stress during the COVID-19 pandemic in Japan	15
From schoolification of children to schoolification of parents? – educational policies in COVID times	15
Nature of science in early years science teaching	13
Impact of pedagogical intervention on early childhood professionals’ emotional availability to children with different temperament characteristics	12
Arabic-English bilingual children’s early home literacy environments and parental language policies	12
Preschool children’s agency in education for sustainability: the case of Sweden	12
Exploring the effectiveness of STEM education on the creativity of 5-year-old kindergarten children	12
Toddlers’ stress during transition to childcare	12
Young children’s assent and dissent in research: agency, privacy and relationships within ethical research spaces	11
The effect of STEAM education with tales on problem solving and creativity skills	11
Voices of young children aged 3–7 years in educational research: an international systematic literature review	11
Multilingual childhoods of refugee children in Icelandic preschools: educational practices and partnerships with parents	9
Mathematical beliefs and self-reported practices of Chinese early childhood teachers in the context of teaching mathematics during block play	8
Preschool children’s social competence: the roles of parent–child, parent–parent, and teacher–child relationships	8
The effects of STEM activities on the problem-solving skills of 6-year-old preschool children	8

‘We practise every day’: parents’ attitudes towards early science learning and education among a sample of urban families in Ireland	8
Preschool teachers’ self-efficacy beliefs and interaction quality in the domain of instructional support – do professional vision competencies moderate this relation?	8
Potentialities of pedagogical documentation as an intertwined research process with children and teachers in slow pedagogies	7
Research into multilingual issues in ECEC contexts: proposing a transdisciplinary research field	7
Fraught with frights or full of fun: perspectives of risky play among six-to-eight-year olds	7
Outdoors as an arena for science learning and physical education in kindergarten	7
Children’s critical thinking skills: perceptions of Norwegian early childhood educators	7
Early childhood educators’ experiences of bullying episodes: a qualitative approach	7
Transactional relations and reciprocity between refugee mothers and their children: changes in child, parenting, and concept of child	7
Educator identity in a neoliberal context: recognising and supporting early childhood education and care educators	7
The children’s voice – how do children participate in analog and digital portfolios?	6
An investigation into the relationship between self-perception and sexual development in children attending preschool education	6
Improving the quality of adaptive learning support provided by kindergarten teachers in play-based mathematical learning situations	6
Practitioners’ language-supporting strategies in multilingual ECE institutions in Luxembourg	6
The role of mother’s education and child gender for children’s vocabulary and math skills in the transition from Early Childhood Education and Care to first grade in Norway	6
Children’s perspectives about belonging in educational settings in five European countries	6
Methodological and ethical challenges in cross-language qualitative research: the role of interpreters	6
Look who’s talking: eliciting the voice of children from birth to seven	6
Bridging the theory and practice of eliciting the voices of young children: findings from theLook Who’s Talkingproject	6
Men in early childhood education and care: on navigating a gendered terrain	6
School readiness and pre-primary learning experiences of children of refugee backgrounds in Tanzania: the mediating role of family socio-economic status	6
Inclusion is the ideal, but what is the reality? Early years practitioners perceptions of the access and inclusion model in preschools in Ireland	6
Children’s working theories about Covid-19 in Aotearoa New Zealand	6
You are stuck here, at the office: Chilean ECEC principals’ pedagogical leadership in JUNJI and Integra Foundation	5
Learning in, and from, practice-based professional development initiatives in ECEC: a research agenda in Denmark	5
Parallel worlds? Parental rationalities of governing children in the context of the diversifying Czech pre-school system	5
Beliefs of parents of preschool children about literacy: facilitative and conventional approaches	5
Pedagogical documentation and the refusal of method: troubling dogmas and inviting collective obligations	5
Challenging gender stereotypes through a transformation of a fairy tale	5
Quality in home-based childcare providers: variations in process quality	5
‘Quilting’ a play-based anti-bias curriculum for very young children: the Mosaic Approach	4
Research in early childhood teacher domain-specific professional knowledge – a systematic review	4
It’s up to you if you want to take part. Supporting young children’s informed choice about research participation with simple visual booklets	4
Young children’s interactions with a social robot during a drawing task	4
English as a foreign language in ECE: itinerant teachers of English and collaborative practices for an integrated approach	4
Embracing the breadth of ethical complexities in early childhood research	4
Special Issue on Pedagogical Documentation – Researching a Powerful and Evolving Idea	4
Parental Involvement in early childhood education and care: exploring parents’ perspectives in rural China	4
Reading picture books including animal matters: making space for discussing anthropocentrism with young children	4
Examining images of teacher students	4
Exploring parents’ perceptions of preschoolers’ risky outdoor play using a socio-ecological lens	4
What’s your image of the child?Examining trajectories of prospective ECE teachers’ beliefs during practicum	3
Where are the children’s voices and choices in educational settings’ early reading policies? A reflection on early reading provision for under-threes	3
Sharing pedagogical documentation with others: exploring issues of addressivity and voice	3
Outdoor provision for babies and toddlers: exploring the practice/policy/research nexus in English ECEC settings	3
‘Why am I in all of these pictures?’ From Learning Stories to Lived Stories: the politics of children’s participation rights in documentation practices	3
Early childhood educators’ emotional exhaustion and the frequency of educational activities in preschool	3
He Whānau Manaaki kindergartens, Aotearoa New Zealand: a pandemic outreach in new political times	3
Do my words convey what children are saying? Researching school life with very young children: dilemmas for ‘authentic listening’	3
‘Can we see our voices?’ Young children’s own contributions to authentic child participation as a pillar for sustainability under the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC)	3

A validation and reliability study of the Movement Environmental Rating Scale (MOVERS)	3
The role of ECEC teachers for the long-term social and academic adjustment of children with early externalizing difficulties: a prospective cohort study	3
Kindergarten practitioners’ perspectives on intergenerational programs in Norwegian kindergartens during the COVID-19 pandemic: exploring transitions and transformations in institutional practices	3
Individualized education program development in early childhood education: a disabled children’s childhood studies perspective	3
Engineers and engineering through the eyes of preschoolers: a phenomenographic study of children’s drawings	3
Role of home mathematics activities and mothers’ maths talk in predicting children’s maths talk and early maths skills	3
Young children as theory makers and co-creators of cultural practices: challenging the authenticity of Santa	3
Dealing with transition in formal meetings of parents and pedagogic staff	3
Quality early childhood education for all children?	3
Im/migrant parents’ voices as enabling professional learning communities in early childhood education and care	3
Parents’ understandings and practices regarding play and learning	3
Pedagogical documentation as a curriculum tool: making children’s outdoor learning visible in a childcare centre in Singapore	2
Semiotic landscapes as constructions of multilingualism – a case study of two kindergartens	2
The influence of parenting style on sibling relations among children aged 4–6 in rural areas in Northern China–a regression model	2
Pedagogical documentation as a strategy for planning and communicating children’s learning and pedagogical day-to-day life	2
An observational study to assess the educational management of conflicts between young children in the Pikler-Lóczy educational approach. Implications in the early development of personality	2
Examining the intercultural competence of early-childhood teachers	2
An ecosystem perspective of practice and professional development in early childhood education and care (ECEC)	2
Playfulness as the antecedent of kindergarten children’s prosocial skills and school readiness	2
Cross-sector early years teacher collaboration: using professional learning workshops as boundary objects for professional boundary crossing	2
The use of information and communication technology in pedagogical documentation: an investigation of early childhood education in China	2
Evaluating popular STEM applications for young children	2
Eliciting young children’s ‘voice’ in low-income areas in England: recognising their mutuality of being	2
Children’s temperament moderates the long-term effects of pedagogical practices in ECEC on children’s externalising problems	2
Living in heaven and buried in the earth? Teaching young children about death	2
Ecological conditions and interpersonal skills leading to ECE teacher competences in working with immigrant children in Slovenia	2
An exploration of what conditions facilitate experiences of compassion in one early childhood community	2
Leave only footprints: how children communicate a sense of ownership and belonging in an art gallery	2
Creating space for equity in early childhood educator’s participation in documentation, assessment and evaluation	2
Exploring children’s well-being in daycare: how do children feel all day?	2
Adaptation and validation of an instrument for the evaluation of attitudes towards disability in early childhood education	2
Curriculum design and content in Czech pre-primary education: approaches and experiences of student teachers	2
The plural uses of pedagogical documentation in Pedagogy-in-Participation	2
On the way towards integration? From monologic to dialogic encounters in Swedish rural preschools	2
Why parents chose to send their children to Irish-medium immersion preschools: learning from parental choice strategies in Celtic countries	2
‘Go away from this galaxy coronavirus’: children’s meanings and feelings of the Covid-19 pandemic through narrated drawings	2
Interacting and communicating with children: an exploratory study about educators’ behavior during a collaborative activity	2
Professionals’ Perceptions of the Classroom Assessment Scoring System as a structure for professional community and development	2
Positioning children as artists through a ceramic arts project and exhibition: children meaning making	2
Toddler play preferences and the teacher’s role in the outdoor play environment	2
Newly arrived children’s encounters with the cultural community of preschool	2
Pandemic natives, pandemic immigrants: effects of COVID-19 confinement on the wellbeing of children in preschool education	2
A comparative study of ECEC practitioners’ perceptions of children’s well-being and their roles in South Korea and Norway	2
‘Finding a voice’: utilising Tronto’s ethic of care framework for developing students’ attentiveness to voice in a university module	1
Substantiation of the invisible: pedagogical documentation as professional development support	1
Can a theme-based joint block play program promote preschoolers’ cooperative skills: evidence from Shanghai/China	1
Tracking possible differences between female- and male staff in promoting physical activity towards girls and boys in the outdoor playground of the kindergarten	1
Wider room for curbing bullying in early childhood education and care – emphasising a democratic, social and contextual approach to bullying phenomenon	1
Validating the early numeracy teacher rating scale for preschoolers (TRS–EN)	1
Gravestones, zombies and dead siblings: graveyards as artefacts for children’s existential questions	1
Blurring the borders between research and practice: video as a tool to develop knowledge about language and empower (student) teachers in multilingual pre-school classrooms	1
A content analysis of text in children’s picture books with regard to the inclusion of geographical concepts	1
A cultural-historical study of how a conceptual playworld creates conditions for personally meaningful mathematics in the Chinese kindergarten context	1
A cultural-historical perspective of young children gaining autonomy in the playground	1
Associations between the movement environment and preschooler's physical activity and sedentary time in Norwegian preschools	1
The importance of structural characteristics for interaction quality in Austrian preschools	1
The inclusion of children with disabilities in early childhood education: interdisciplinary research and dialogue	1
Glitter, flashlights, and building pillows – about physical prerequisites for creativity	1
Assessing Global and Math-Specific Teacher-Child Interaction Quality in Early Childcare Settings: A Systematic Literature Review of Instruments Used in Research	1
The types of work of early childhood education and care professionals: an interactive perspective	1
ECE as an educative and multifaceted practice for growth: to assess and evaluate teaching and learning by documenting children’s actions and re-actions	1
Transforming transitions to primary school: using children’s funds of knowledge and identity	1
The effect of free play on preschoolers’ physical activity level and motor, cognitive, and socioemotional competences: a systematic review of randomized controlled trials	1
A window of change: how COVID-19 disrupted pedagogical approaches in Danish kindergartens	1
Introducing a program supporting social interactions and play in inclusive preschools in Sweden: reflections on a stepwise collaborative implementation process	1
Any questions? Young children questioning in their early childhood education settings	1
Enhancing early childhood education student teachers’ mentalization, interaction, and relationships: an online intervention	1
‘Tell me the whole story’: moving from narrative comprehension to narrative production skills	1
From the uncertain times to today: unveiling the early childhood education research with keywords	1
Observational analysis of the development of computational thinking in Early Childhood Education (5 years old) through an intervention proposal with a ground robot of programmed directionality	1
Exploring reversed conditions of early years pre-service teacher training on pretend play	1
Pedagogical documentation for a more inclusive early childhood education	1
Editorial	1
Leadership behaviours during crises: cases from early childhood education and care in England	1
Pursuing early childhood inclusion through reinforcing partnerships with parents of disabled children: beliefs of Greek pre-service early childhood educators	1
Employees’ perception of the impacts of global health crisis on work performance and sentiments about future career: the case of early childhood education	1
Professionalising ECCE in South Africa is not child’s play! Determining skills gaps and implications for future sector development	1
Newcomer object ownership negotiations when transitioning from home care to early childhood education and care in Finland	1
Food and meal policies and guidelines in kindergartens in Norway and China: a comparative analysis	1
‘Everything is there, but they don't bring it to your front door … ’ An analysis of the perception of early childcare by parents of children with disabilities	1

The ambivalence of assessment — Language assessment of minority-language children in early childhood education and care	1
Academic rigour and ideology are not incompatible in early childhood research	1
Intergenerational learning as a pedagogical strategy in early childhood education services: perspectives from an Irish study	1
Developing mathematical patterning in ECE classrooms: participatory research with teachers of 3–5-year-olds	1
« Yeah, I am making new stuff! »: responsivity to and negotiations of agency during digital storytelling in preschool	1
Shifting play experiences during the COVID-19 pandemic: family responses to pandemic restrictions	1
Attitudes towards reading amongst kindergarten and Grade 1 children	1
Development and psychometric properties of nomination scales for high academic potential in early childhood education and care	1
Impact of students’ prior work experiences on their perceptions of practicums as support for their professional development	1
Examining associations among provider-family relationships, provider coping strategies, and family child care providers’ relationships with children	1
My world of machines: an integrated STEM education curriculum for early childhood teachers	1
Relations between reading skill level in fifth grade and functional language skills at toddler age	1
Inviting inquiry on pedagogical documentation in Singapore: perspectives of parents and teachers	1
The systemic vision of the environment through drawing of young Spanish children	1
Fear and Othering in the inclusive early childhood classroom: remnants from the past	1
Parent–child shared reading of scratch-and-sniff books: the communicative affordance of olfaction	1
Finnish ECEC personnel’s views on the challenging nature of promoting social justice: a sustainability research perspective	1
The interrelationship between pre-primary and early primary school teachers’ learning in the professional community and burnout: a person-centered approach	1
Becoming school-parents: contrasts between mothers’ and fathers’ speech samples and links with psychological distress and household disorder	1
Exploring Taiwanese preschool children’s perspectives on the value of caring	1
Creating forums for plural Covid narratives and dialogues in early childhood	1
Interventions of an early childhood teacher during problem-solving activities	1
The enculturation process in early childhood education and care: a mixed methods study	1
Conceptualizing diversity in ECEC policy: implications for the role of diverse preschool in Sweden	1
Children’s holistic learning during self-initiated outdoor play in a Norwegian kindergarten	1
Noblesse oblige? Job position and early childhood leadership in China: the moderating role of school type	1