European Early Childhood Education Research Journal

Article	Citations
International responses to COVID-19: challenges faced by early childhood professionals	64
What do young children have to say? Recognising their voices, wisdom, agency and need for companionship during the COVID pandemic	45
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	44
Using Artificial Intelligence (AI)-interfaced robotic toys in early childhood settings: a case for children’s inquiry literacy	37
COVID-19 and early childhood in Brazil: impacts on children’s well-being, education and care	33
‘Uncharted territory’: teachers’ perspectives on play in early childhood classrooms in Ireland during the pandemic	31
Early childhood practitioner beliefs about digital media: integrating technology into a child-centred classroom environment	29
Weaving pedagogy in early childhood education: on openings and their foreclosure	27
Corona pandemic in the United States shapes new normal for young children and their families	22
Pedagogical aspects to support students’ evolving digital competence at school	22
Playing with science: manifestation of scientific play in early science inquiry	20
How do activity settings, preschool teachers’ activities, and children’s activities relate to the quality of children’s interactions in preschool? Findings from Austria	18
The integration of the internet of toys in early childhood education: a platform for multi-layered interactions	18
Factors modifying children’s stress during the COVID-19 pandemic in Japan	17
Bridging the gap: engaging Roma and migrant families in early childhood education through trust-based relationships	17
Children and teachers engaging together with digital technology in early childhood education and care institutions: a literature review	16
Expectations and emotions concerning infant transitions to ECEC: international dialogues with parents and teachers	16
From schoolification of children to schoolification of parents? – educational policies in COVID times	15
Barriers and facilitators for partnerships between parents with immigrant backgrounds and professionals in ECEC: a review based on empirical research	14
Impact of pedagogical intervention on early childhood professionals’ emotional availability to children with different temperament characteristics	12
Children’s views on making and designing	12
Nature of science in early years science teaching	11
Meddling with Mosaic: reflections and adaptations	11
Arabic-English bilingual children’s early home literacy environments and parental language policies	10
Outdoors as an arena for science learning and physical education in kindergarten	10

A cross-cultural exploration of early childhood educators’ beliefs and experiences around the use of touchscreen technologies with children under 3 years of age	10
Student–teacher dialectic in the co-creation of a zone of proximal development: an example from kindergarten mathematics	9
Digital pop-ups: studying digital pop-ups and theorising digital pop-up pedagogies for preschools	9
The effect of STEAM education with tales on problem solving and creativity skills	9
Culturally inclusive early childhood education for sustainability: a comparative document analysis between Australian and Korean curricula	9
Quality of educator-infant conversational interactions among infants experiencing varying quantity of linguistic input	8
Socio-cultural disparities in the quality of children's interactions in preschools	8
Toddlers’ stress during transition to childcare	8
Transactional relations and reciprocity between refugee mothers and their children: changes in child, parenting, and concept of child	8
‘We practise every day’: parents’ attitudes towards early science learning and education among a sample of urban families in Ireland	7
Preschool teachers’ self-efficacy beliefs and interaction quality in the domain of instructional support – do professional vision competencies moderate this relation?	7
Multilingual childhoods of refugee children in Icelandic preschools: educational practices and partnerships with parents	7
Early childhood educators’ experiences of bullying episodes: a qualitative approach	7
Technology-integrated pedagogical practices: a look into evidence-based teaching and coherent learning for young children	7
Young children’s assent and dissent in research: agency, privacy and relationships within ethical research spaces	7
Early childcare as arenas of inclusion: the contribution of staff to recognising parents with refugee backgrounds as significant stakeholders	7
Preschool children’s agency in education for sustainability: the case of Sweden	7
The acceptance of Turkish kindergarten children toward children with disabilities	7
Practitioners’ language-supporting strategies in multilingual ECE institutions in Luxembourg	6
Mathematical beliefs and self-reported practices of Chinese early childhood teachers in the context of teaching mathematics during block play	6
Defining quality in early childhood education: parents’ perspectives	6
The children’s voice – how do children participate in analog and digital portfolios?	6
Possibilities and challenges in sustained capacity-building in early childhood education and care (ECEC) institutions: ECEC leaders’ perspectives	6
Children’s working theories about Covid-19 in Aotearoa New Zealand	6
Exploring the effectiveness of STEM education on the creativity of 5-year-old kindergarten children	6
Educator identity in a neoliberal context: recognising and supporting early childhood education and care educators	6
‘A teacher’s hug can make you feel better’: listening to U.S. children’s voices on high-quality early childhood teaching	6
Voices of young children aged 3–7 years in educational research: an international systematic literature review	6
The effects of STEM activities on the problem-solving skills of 6-year-old preschool children	6
Fraught with frights or full of fun: perspectives of risky play among six-to-eight-year olds	6
Potentialities of pedagogical documentation as an intertwined research process with children and teachers in slow pedagogies	6
‘Teachers decide because they are adults’: the views of Turkish preschoolers about participation	5
Research into multilingual issues in ECEC contexts: proposing a transdisciplinary research field	5
School readiness and pre-primary learning experiences of children of refugee backgrounds in Tanzania: the mediating role of family socio-economic status	5
Preschool children’s social competence: the roles of parent–child, parent–parent, and teacher–child relationships	5
Mathematics education beliefs and practices of Under 3s educators in Australia	5
Look who’s talking: eliciting the voice of children from birth to seven	5
Parallel worlds? Parental rationalities of governing children in the context of the diversifying Czech pre-school system	5
English as a foreign language in ECE: itinerant teachers of English and collaborative practices for an integrated approach	4
Bridging the theory and practice of eliciting the voices of young children: findings from the Look Who’s Talking project	4
Exploring parents’ perceptions of preschoolers’ risky outdoor play using a socio-ecological lens	4
Parental Involvement in early childhood education and care: exploring parents’ perspectives in rural China	4
The construction of child-caregiver relationship in childcare centre: adaptation of Parent Attachment Diary for professional caregivers	4
Learning in, and from, practice-based professional development initiatives in ECEC: a research agenda in Denmark	4
High quality educators’ conceptualisation of children’s risk-taking in early childhood education: provoking educators to think more broadly	4
You are stuck here, at the office: Chilean ECEC principals’ pedagogical leadership in JUNJI and Integra Foundation	4
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	4
What parents and teachers say about their relationships in ECEC: a study in rural China	4
Sharing pedagogical documentation with others: exploring issues of addressivity and voice	3
Pushing against hegemonic practices: emergent bilinguals respond to children’s literature	3

Quality in home-based childcare providers: variations in process quality	3
An investigation into the relationship between self-perception and sexual development in children attending preschool education	3
Playful qualities oftoddling stylein adult–child interaction	3
It’s up to you if you want to take part. Supporting young children’s informed choice about research participation with simple visual booklets	3
A validation and reliability study of the Movement Environmental Rating Scale (MOVERS)	3
Childminders’ Close Relationship Model of praxis: an ecocultural study in Ireland	3
Understanding the intention of Chinese parents to enroll their children in early enrichment programs – A social media perspective	3
Examining images of teacher students	3
Young children as theory makers and co-creators of cultural practices: challenging the authenticity of Santa	3
Beliefs of parents of preschool children about literacy: facilitative and conventional approaches	3
Men in early childhood education and care: on navigating a gendered terrain	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
‘Quilting’ a play-based anti-bias curriculum for very young children: the Mosaic Approach	3
Pedagogical documentation as a curriculum tool: making children’s outdoor learning visible in a childcare centre in Singapore	3
Pedagogical documentation and the refusal of method: troubling dogmas and inviting collective obligations	3
He Whānau Manaaki kindergartens, Aotearoa New Zealand: a pandemic outreach in new political times	3
Exploring experiences of compassion in the daily rhythms of one early childhood community	3
Improving the quality of adaptive learning support provided by kindergarten teachers in play-based mathematical learning situations	3
Do my words convey what children are saying? Researching school life with very young children: dilemmas for ‘authentic listening’	2
Leave only footprints: how children communicate a sense of ownership and belonging in an art gallery	2
Exploring children’s well-being in daycare: how do children feel all day?	2
A comparative study of ECEC practitioners’ perceptions of children’s well-being and their roles in South Korea and Norway	2
Embracing the breadth of ethical complexities in early childhood research	2
The impact of classroom quality on young children's emotion understanding	2
Semiotic landscapes as constructions of multilingualism – a case study of two kindergartens	2
Eliciting young children’s ‘voice’ in low-income areas in England: recognising their mutuality of being	2
Kindergarten practitioners’ perspectives on intergenerational programs in Norwegian kindergartens during the COVID-19 pandemic: exploring transitions and transformations in institutional practices	2
Children’s critical thinking skills: perceptions of Norwegian early childhood educators	2
Why parents chose to send their children to Irish-medium immersion preschools: learning from parental choice strategies in Celtic countries	2
Where are the children’s voices and choices in educational settings’ early reading policies? A reflection on early reading provision for under-threes	2
Professionals’ Perceptions of the Classroom Assessment Scoring System as a structure for professional community and development	2
Children’s perspectives about belonging in educational settings in five European countries	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
The role of ECEC teachers for the long-term social and academic adjustment of children with early externalizing difficulties: a prospective cohort study	2
Children’s socialization into the mobile preschool: a priming event collectively performed by novice children, ‘old-timers’, and pedagogues	2
Challenging gender stereotypes through a transformation of a fairy tale	2
The influence of parenting style on sibling relations among children aged 4–6 in rural areas in Northern China–a regression model	2
The plural uses of pedagogical documentation in Pedagogy-in-Participation	2
Individualized education program development in early childhood education: a disabled children’s childhood studies perspective	2
Parents’ understandings and practices regarding play and learning	2
What’s your image of the child? Examining trajectories of prospective ECE teachers’ beliefs during practicum	2
An exploration of what conditions facilitate experiences of compassion in one early childhood community	2
Methodological and ethical challenges in cross-language qualitative research: the role of interpreters	2
Role of home mathematics activities and mothers’ maths talk in predicting children’s maths talk and early maths skills	2
Inclusion is the ideal, but what is the reality? Early years practitioners perceptions of the access and inclusion model in preschools in Ireland	2
Dealing with transition in formal meetings of parents and pedagogic staff	2
Research in early childhood teacher domain-specific professional knowledge – a systematic review	2
The use of information and communication technology in pedagogical documentation: an investigation of early childhood education in China	2
Early childhood educators’ emotional exhaustion and the frequency of educational activities in preschool	2
On the way towards integration? From monologic to dialogic encounters in Swedish rural preschools	2
Children’s temperament moderates the long-term effects of pedagogical practices in ECEC on children’s externalising problems	2
Pedagogical documentation as a strategy for planning and communicating children’s learning and pedagogical day-to-day life	2
The effect of foreign language acquisition on preschool children’s self-regulation and social skills	2
Engineers and engineering through the eyes of preschoolers: a phenomenographic study of children’s drawings	2
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
Examining the intercultural competence of early-childhood teachers	1
Becoming school-parents: contrasts between mothers’ and fathers’ speech samples and links with psychological distress and household disorder	1
Positioning children as artists through a ceramic arts project and exhibition: children meaning making	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
Exploring Taiwanese preschool children’s perspectives on the value of caring	1
Im/migrant parents’ voices as enabling professional learning communities in early childhood education and care	1
The enculturation process in early childhood education and care: a mixed methods study	1
Any questions? Young children questioning in their early childhood education settings	1
Reading picture books including animal matters: making space for discussing anthropocentrism with young children	1
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	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 need analysis study for intimacy program for early childhood education: preschool teachers’ attitudes on masturbation behavior in preschool students	1
Substantiation of the invisible: pedagogical documentation as professional development support	1
Interacting and communicating with children: an exploratory study about educators’ behavior during a collaborative activity	1
‘Tell me the whole story’: moving from narrative comprehension to narrative production skills	1
Pedagogical documentation for a more inclusive early childhood education	1
‘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)	1
Gravestones, zombies and dead siblings: graveyards as artefacts for children’s existential questions	1
Food and meal policies and guidelines in kindergartens in Norway and China: a comparative analysis	1
The ambivalence of assessment — Language assessment of minority-language children in early childhood education and care	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
Evaluating popular STEM applications for young children	1
Creating forums for plural Covid narratives and dialogues in early childhood	1

A window of change: how COVID-19 disrupted pedagogical approaches in Danish kindergartens	1
Shifting play experiences during the COVID-19 pandemic: family responses to pandemic restrictions	1
Impact of students’ prior work experiences on their perceptions of practicums as support for their professional development	1
Introducing a program supporting social interactions and play in inclusive preschools in Sweden: reflections on a stepwise collaborative implementation process	1
Young children’s interactions with a social robot during a drawing task	1
Playfulness as the antecedent of kindergarten children’s prosocial skills and school readiness	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
Intergenerational learning as a pedagogical strategy in early childhood education services: perspectives from an Irish study	1
Ecological conditions and interpersonal skills leading to ECE teacher competences in working with immigrant children in Slovenia	1
Relations between reading skill level in fifth grade and functional language skills at toddler age	1
The interrelationship between pre-primary and early primary school teachers’ learning in the professional community and burnout: a person-centered approach	1
Wider room for curbing bullying in early childhood education and care – emphasising a democratic, social and contextual approach to bullying phenomenon	1
Children save lives: evaluation of a first aid training in Norwegian kindergartens	1
Development and psychometric properties of nomination scales for high academic potential in early childhood education and care	1
Toddler play preferences and the teacher’s role in the outdoor play environment	1
What does it mean to be an early childhood educator? Negotiating professionalism during practicum placements in Buenos Aires (Argentina)	1
The types of work of early childhood education and care professionals: an interactive perspective	1
Preschoolers’ difficult questions: variations by informant and gender	1
Special Issue on Pedagogical Documentation – Researching a Powerful and Evolving Idea	1
Noblesse oblige? Job position and early childhood leadership in China: the moderating role of school type	1
‘Finding a voice’: utilising Tronto’s ethic of care framework for developing students’ attentiveness to voice in a university module	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
Creating space for equity in early childhood educator’s participation in documentation, assessment and evaluation	1
Exploring reversed conditions of early years pre-service teacher training on pretend play	1
An ecosystem perspective of practice and professional development in early childhood education and care (ECEC)	1
Editorial	1
Cross-sector early years teacher collaboration: using professional learning workshops as boundary objects for professional boundary crossing	1
The importance of structural characteristics for interaction quality in Austrian preschools	1
Examining associations among provider-family relationships, provider coping strategies, and family child care providers’ relationships with children	1
Interventions of an early childhood teacher during problem-solving activities	1