European Early Childhood Education Research Journal

Papers
(The median citation count of European Early Childhood Education Research Journal is 1. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-10-01 to 2025-10-01.)
ArticleCitations
Panel of Referees36
Harnessing abilities and talents: parents’ perspectives on responsive inclusive early childhood education30
An exploratory study of children’s peer touch in a Swedish preschool: touch forms, bodily arrangements, and social constellations21
Capturing family soundscapes for a deeper understanding and knowledge of early childhood music education: the contributions made by LENA® technology21
Fear and Othering in the inclusive early childhood classroom: remnants from the past19
Unleashing the potential: illuminating pedagogical strategies employed by early childhood educators in stem education for cultivating algorithmic thinking skills in young learners18
Finnish ECEC personnel’s views on the challenging nature of promoting social justice: a sustainability research perspective18
Young children’s interactions with a social robot during a drawing task16
Investigation of the effectiveness of the training given on home accidents and safety precautions15
From the uncertain times to today: unveiling the early childhood education research with keywords14
My world of machines: an integrated STEM education curriculum for early childhood teachers13
It’s up to you if you want to take part . Supporting young children’s informed choice about research participation with simple visual booklets12
‘How are rainbows made?': profiles of early childhood teachers' beliefs and their associations with responses to young children's causal questions11
Special educators’ approaches to supporting autistic children in mainstream preschools: ethical and social perspectives10
Exploring children’s perceptions of family relationships in China through kinetic family drawing: insights from 5- to 6-year olds10
Educators’ perceptions of Australia’s early childhood education and care quality assurance rating system10
The impact of earthquake anxiety on preschool teachers: coping strategies and educational implications10
The learning early childhood education and care institution as an inclusion arena10
The effects of shared book reading on language and literacy development of ESL/EFL learners: a multi-level meta-analysis9
Children’s critical thinking skills: perceptions of Norwegian early childhood educators9
Special Issue on Pedagogical Documentation – Researching a Powerful and Evolving Idea9
Pedagogical documentation as a strategy for planning and communicating children’s learning and pedagogical day-to-day life9
Im/migrant parents’ voices as enabling professional learning communities in early childhood education and care8
The visibility of ethics within early childhood research; revised standards for our international community of practice8
Evaluating popular STEM applications for young children8
Assessing Global and Math-Specific Teacher-Child Interaction Quality in Early Childcare Settings: A Systematic Literature Review of Instruments Used in Research8
Tensions, assumptions and situated ethics: attuning to the unpredictability of ethics in early childhood research participation8
The social language environment – domain: ECEC teachers’ self-reported ratings of strategies in teaching literacy7
Relationships between socioecological characteristics and families’ playground use in different seasons in Finland7
Enrichment and safety -the parents of young children constructing early childhood education and care institution in Finland7
Correction7
Examining associations among provider-family relationships, provider coping strategies, and family child care providers’ relationships with children7
Early childhood educators’ emotional exhaustion and the frequency of educational activities in preschool7
EECERA ethical code for early childhood researchers6
Attitudes towards reading amongst kindergarten and Grade 1 children6
The development of early childhood teachers’ sociodramatic and imaginative play skills through a drama-based professional development program6
Curriculum design and content in Czech pre-primary education: approaches and experiences of student teachers6
Transformation in early childhood education: proposing a community-based approach6
Relations between reading skill level in fifth grade and functional language skills at toddler age6
Parental attachment and emotion regulation in children: the mediating role of working memory6
Noblesse oblige? Job position and early childhood leadership in China: the moderating role of school type6
Conceptualizing diversity in ECEC policy: implications for the role of diverse preschool in Sweden5
The effects of teacher-led and teacher-guided interventions on preschool children’s motor competency5
Improving the quality of adaptive learning support provided by kindergarten teachers in play-based mathematical learning situations5
What if children affected by sleep disorder and aggression could regulate their emotions?5
Exploring children’s well-being in daycare: how do children feel all day?5
Educators’ responses to children’s grieving: exploring emotional configurations in flexibly scheduled early childhood education and care5
Educators’ perspectives on parental belonging in preschool communities5
Understanding preschool teachers’ pedagogical leadership through individual and collective reflection5
The role of active methodologies in the socio-emotional development of children at risk: a case study in 3 public schools in the Basque Country5
Using teach ECE to observe the quality of online teaching during the pandemic: an exploratory study in a pre-school in Chile5
Bridging early childhood education and inclusive practices in classrooms that serve children with disabilities: a narrative portrait5
« Yeah, I am making new stuff! »: responsivity to and negotiations of agency during digital storytelling in preschool5
A Significant Events Approach to Children’s Rights with children under three in early childhood education and care5
Exploring parents’ perceptions of preschoolers’ risky outdoor play using a socio-ecological lens4
Children save lives: evaluation of a first aid training in Norwegian kindergartens4
Editorial4
Australian multilingual early childhood educators’ use of languages in early childhood education settings: findings of a qualitative (pilot) study4
Professional development for praxis transformation in early childhood education and care: a systematic review4
A cultural-historical perspective of young children gaining autonomy in the playground4
The pathways to assent in early childhood research: what do parents of young children want?4
Practitioner inquiry: troubling certainty4
A decolonizing approach to early learning: toddlers’ and preschoolers’ engagement with the land and indigenous ways of knowing4
Professional development for ethical practice transformation4
Zoom play: Affectively mobilised collective play across Family Day Care settings4
Tracking possible differences between female- and male staff in promoting physical activity towards girls and boys in the outdoor playground of the kindergarten4
Inviting inquiry on pedagogical documentation in Singapore: perspectives of parents and teachers4
What’s your image of the child?Examining trajectories of prospective ECE teachers’ beliefs during practicum3
The effect of home literacy environment on preschool children’s learning dispositions3
A visual ethnography of parent-child interactions during ‘story-time’ in Chinese family settings3
Preschool children’s discourses on gender during dramatic play from critical perspective3
Complexities of men’s engagement in early childhood care and development in Africa3
The role of pedagogical documentation in child and parent participation: an investigation of educator and parent perspectives in a Reggio Emilia-inspired preschool3
Pedagogical practices for the infant-toddler’s first day of transition from home care to early childhood education and care3
Professional development opportunities and a newly built daycare center: incentives in ECEC teacher job advertisements in Finland3
Children’s participation when transitioning between early childhood education and care settings: potentials for readjusting institutional logics3
Engaging children in what-if thinking through read-aloud conversations in early childhood education for sustainability3
Conceptual PlayWorld: creating motivating conditions for new kindergarten practices in China to support engineering education3
Effect of gender-neutral activities on preschool children’s gender stereotypes3
Reflections from the higher education classroom: the role of playful pedagogy in the professional formation of early childhood students3
Vocal fatigue of kindergarten teachers in China and its influential factors: a chain mediating model3
Preschool children’s agency in education for sustainability: the case of Sweden3
Leave only footprints: how children communicate a sense of ownership and belonging in an art gallery3
Teacher inquiry and learning stories: a site for pedagogical change3
ChatGPT, care and the ethical dilemmas entangled with teaching and research in the early years3
Documenting towards democratic early education curriculum in the Republic of Croatia3
The relation between structural family characteristics and parental attitudes with respect to the use of ECEC for one- and two-year-old children in Germany3
Editorial3
Cultural heritage in early childhood education: a systematic review3
A cultural-historical study of how a conceptual playworld creates conditions for personally meaningful mathematics in the Chinese kindergarten context3
‘Tell me the whole story’: moving from narrative comprehension to narrative production skills3
Interprofessional collaboration in ECEC: a review of European countries with different levels of system integration3
The inclusion of children with disabilities in early childhood education: interdisciplinary research and dialogue3
Risk willingness in play: exploring children’s behaviour in a virtual reality playground3
How can children best learn map skills? a step-by-step approach3
Teachers’ interactions with children in micro-level transitions in Norwegian preschools3
Editorial3
The impact of the ‘accelerated childhood’ culture in the UK's ECEC: practitioners’ and policy makers’ views during a professional development course*3
The years children spent in early education in relation to their social relations and objects of attention2
‘A long way to get here and a long way to go': a case study on changing lunch meal practices in a Norwegian kindergarten2
Values in English and Swedish Pre School Teachers: a comparative case study in early childhood settings2
Creative research methodology in exploring young children's humor2
How similar is Hong Kong’s play-based learning pedagogy to Fröbel’s Spielpädagogik?2
Do my words convey what children are saying? Researching school life with very young children: dilemmas for ‘authentic listening’2
Toward exploring a new path for parenting within a digital environment: an investigation of Korean fathers’ online involvement in parenting2
‘I tried five times, and the sixth time I managed'. Children’s experiences with pedagogical videos on social and emotional learning2
Limited representation of disability in early childhood classrooms: data from South Korea2
Academic rigour and ideology are not incompatible in early childhood research2
‘Why am I in all of these pictures?’ From Learning Stories to Lived Stories: the politics of children’s participation rights in documentation practices2
Work demands and work resources in ECEC – turnover intentions explored2
Exploring parental competences in Spanish fathers and mothers of children aged 0–3: relationship with socio-familial and child characteristics2
Early Years leadership development during workforce crisis: perspectives of 24 UK training providers2
The enculturation process in early childhood education and care: a mixed methods study2
Making connections with children: children’s rights, ethics and research methods2
How do pre-school teachers in Turkey make sense of emotional and behavioural disorder risk?2
Ecological conditions and interpersonal skills leading to ECE teacher competences in working with immigrant children in Slovenia2
Children’s bodily positioning in accounts of naptime in early childhood education and care: a Foucauldian perspective2
Investigation of foreign body aspiration knowledge and first-aid self-efficacy of child development department students2
A triangle of curiosity: infants, researchers, and the video camera2
Praxeological action research: a Froebelian approach for professional development, flourishment and wellbeing2
Quality early childhood education for all children?2
What do adults learn through play regarding interactions and communication with children?2
The types of work of early childhood education and care professionals: an interactive perspective2
Digital resources and parental mediation parallelly mediate the impact of SES on early digital literacy among Chinese preschoolers2
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 personality2
Detection of children at risk of maltreatment: longitudinal understanding of teachers’ concern for children’s home situation in Sweden2
Children’s perspectives about belonging in educational settings in five European countries2
Living in heaven and buried in the earth? Teaching young children about death2
Newcomer object ownership negotiations when transitioning from home care to early childhood education and care in Finland2
Tracing theoretical concepts in student/teacher conversations during a practicum2
Pedagogic mediation for praxis development: supporting leaders and mentors in the English ECEC context2
The influence of family life on the pedagogical praxis of male teachers in early childhood education and care2
Mirror, mirror, on the wall! Are all stepparents wicked? Impressions of stepparents’ role in the fairy tales2
Professionalising ECCE in South Africa is not child’s play! Determining skills gaps and implications for future sector development2
‘Fostering resilience: the impact of supportive organizational culture on mitigating burnout in early childhood educators’1
Subcontracted mothering: a discourse on professionalism in childcare in South Korea1
Creative methods and methodologies in early childhood education and care (ECEC)1
Exploring the landscape of mindfulness practice in early childhood education in Ireland1
The interrelationship between pre-primary and early primary school teachers’ learning in the professional community and burnout: a person-centered approach1
Professional passive practice mentoring system in study program ‘Teaching for pre-school education’ in Albanian HEI-s1
The seven colors of Türkiye: investigation of the effectiveness of respect for cultural differences education program for preschool teachers1
In-service professional development to enhance interaction – staffs’ reflections, experiences and skills1
‘The most important thing in first grade is to make friends’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 disabilities1
Examining the intercultural competence of early-childhood teachers1
Correction1
Children’s understanding and STEM-related experiences of solar energy and technologies in a smart kindergarten in Norway1
Pedagogical documentation as a curriculum tool: making children’s outdoor learning visible in a childcare centre in Singapore1
Observation as a professional tool for early childhood teachers’ inquiry habit of mind : an interpretative phenomenological study1
Editorial1
Observing preschoolers' engagement with a digital book library: insights from children of diverse backgrounds in Türkiye1
School readiness and pre-primary learning experiences of children of refugee backgrounds in Tanzania: the mediating role of family socio-economic status1
Early science education for toddlers (1–3-year-olds) in natural environments – exploring the perspectives of early childhood teachers in Norway1
From the Mosaic approach to cultural probes: why research improves when participants can choose1
Up and Down: Insights from a creative approach to online interactions with very young children1
Individualized education program development in early childhood education: a disabled children’s childhood studies perspective1
You are stuck here, at the office: Chilean ECEC principals’ pedagogical leadership in JUNJI and Integra Foundation1
‘Go away from this galaxy coronavirus’: children’s meanings and feelings of the Covid-19 pandemic through narrated drawings1
Burnout among kindergarten teachers working long hours: causes and strategies for mitigation1
Time to play, time to think: meaningful moments in the forest1
Educators as enablers of young children's voice and agency in research: messages from an Irish study on Intergenerational Learning1
Where are you going? Lessons learned from Irish ECEC educators’ intuitive implementation of slow pedagogy during the COVID-19 pandemic1
Becoming school-parents: contrasts between mothers’ and fathers’ speech samples and links with psychological distress and household disorder1
Young children as theory makers and co-creators of cultural practices: challenging the authenticity of Santa1
Pursuing early childhood inclusion through reinforcing partnerships with parents of disabled children: beliefs of Greek pre-service early childhood educators1
Professional well-being in professional learning communities of early childhood teachers1
Young children’s assent and dissent in research: agency, privacy and relationships within ethical research spaces1
Interacting and communicating with children: an exploratory study about educators’ behavior during a collaborative activity1
Any questions? Young children questioning in their early childhood education settings1
Exploring children’s participation from Froebelian practitioners’ perspectives in Scottish context1
Parents’ understandings and practices regarding play and learning1
Choosing to care: examining the role of motivation, practicum experiences, and working conditions on aspiring childcare professionals in Flanders1
Playing outside, thriving inside: exploring the impact of outdoor play frequency on emotional intelligence in children aged 5–61
Men in early childhood education and care: on navigating a gendered terrain1
Protective factors promoting participatory rights for early childhood children in residential care facilities in Harare, Zimbabwe1
The use of information and communication technology in pedagogical documentation: an investigation of early childhood education in China1
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 Norway1
Professionals’ Perceptions of the Classroom Assessment Scoring System as a structure for professional community and development1
Documenting special educational needs in digital systems: professional practice and agentic possibilities1
Can a theme-based joint block play program promote preschoolers’ cooperative skills: evidence from Shanghai/China1
Meet me at the museum: creative methodologies for understanding young children’s museum experiences1
Democratic spaces for ECEC teachers’ professional development: the case of the RIECU Network in Spain1
From ‘what’ to ‘why’: plotting the emergence and frequency of children's questions from 30 to 42 months of age1
A place for Miguel: discovering the power of belonging within an inclusive toddler community1
The plural uses of pedagogical documentation in Pedagogy-in-Participation1
Panel of Referees1
Importance of children's play: the Croatian experience of future ECEC teachers1
Teaching under fire: preschool and kindergarten teachers’ personal, professional, and social predictors of stress and well-being in wartime1
Paving the way for slow pedagogy: leadership lessons from Icelandic preschools1
Becoming a professional: exploring vulnerabilities in an Australian birth-to-three-year-old professional experience1
Early childhood educators’ understandings of quality in five countries: similarities and differences to policy1
Investigation of play skills of children with typical development and language and speech disorders according to demographic variables1
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