European Early Childhood Education Research Journal

Article	Citations
Panel of Referees	72
Fear and Othering in the inclusive early childhood classroom: remnants from the past	45
Investigation of the effectiveness of the training given on home accidents and safety precautions	26
Harnessing abilities and talents: parents’ perspectives on responsive inclusive early childhood education	21
Young children’s interactions with a social robot during a drawing task	19
An exploratory study of children’s peer touch in a Swedish preschool: touch forms, bodily arrangements, and social constellations	17
Role of mentoring as a pathway for professional growth in early childhood teacher education	17
Finnish ECEC personnel’s views on the challenging nature of promoting social justice: a sustainability research perspective	14
Capturing family soundscapes for a deeper understanding and knowledge of early childhood music education: the contributions made by LENA® technology	14
Unleashing the potential: illuminating pedagogical strategies employed by early childhood educators in stem education for cultivating algorithmic thinking skills in young learners	13
My world of machines: an integrated STEM education curriculum for early childhood teachers	13
The impact of earthquake anxiety on preschool teachers: coping strategies and educational implications	12
The learning early childhood education and care institution as an inclusion arena	11
Special educators’ approaches to supporting autistic children in mainstream preschools: ethical and social perspectives	11
Exploring children’s perceptions of family relationships in China through kinetic family drawing: insights from 5- to 6-year olds	10
Breaking the cycle of disadvantage in early childhood: integrating social work and education through participatory and reflective parenting support	9
Early childhood educators’ emotional exhaustion and the frequency of educational activities in preschool	8
Beyond words: inclusion through arts rich experiences	8
Children’s critical thinking skills: perceptions of Norwegian early childhood educators	8
Educators’ perceptions of Australia’s early childhood education and care quality assurance rating system	8
‘How are rainbows made?': profiles of early childhood teachers' beliefs and their associations with responses to young children's causal questions	8
Migrant children transitioning from kindergarten to primary school in Germany: educators’ and parents’ views of school transition activities	8
Panel of Referees	7
Assessing Global and Math-Specific Teacher-Child Interaction Quality in Early Childcare Settings: A Systematic Literature Review of Instruments Used in Research	7
Evaluating popular STEM applications for young children	7

The visibility of ethics within early childhood research; revised standards for our international community of practice	7
Tensions, assumptions and situated ethics: attuning to the unpredictability of ethics in early childhood research participation	7
Im/migrant parents’ voices as enabling professional learning communities in early childhood education and care	7
The effects of shared book reading on language and literacy development of ESL/EFL learners: a multi-level meta-analysis	7
Curriculum design and content in Czech pre-primary education: approaches and experiences of student teachers	6
Relationships between socioecological characteristics and families’ playground use in different seasons in Finland	6
The development of early childhood teachers’ sociodramatic and imaginative play skills through a drama-based professional development program	6
Enrichment and safety -the parents of young children constructing early childhood education and care institution in Finland	6
Parental attachment and emotion regulation in children: the mediating role of working memory	6
Correction	6
The social language environment – domain: ECEC teachers’ self-reported ratings of strategies in teaching literacy	6
Representational mind-mindedness in Danish early childcare professionals: the role of child gender	6
Attitudes towards reading amongst kindergarten and Grade 1 children	5
Understanding preschool teachers’ pedagogical leadership through individual and collective reflection	5
Conceptualizing diversity in ECEC policy: implications for the role of diverse preschool in Sweden	5
Noblesse oblige? Job position and early childhood leadership in China: the moderating role of school type	5
Educators’ responses to children’s grieving: exploring emotional configurations in flexibly scheduled early childhood education and care	5
Developing a questionnaire to assess confidence of early years educators in using language support strategies	5
Educators’ perspectives on parental belonging in preschool communities	5
Transformation in early childhood education: proposing a community-based approach	5
Using teach ECE to observe the quality of online teaching during the pandemic: an exploratory study in a pre-school in Chile	5
Bridging early childhood education and inclusive practices in classrooms that serve children with disabilities: a narrative portrait	5
Improving the quality of adaptive learning support provided by kindergarten teachers in play-based mathematical learning situations	5
EECERA ethical code for early childhood researchers	5
The effects of teacher-led and teacher-guided interventions on preschool children’s motor competency	4
‘Play for inclusion in early childhood classrooms: understanding teachers’ perspectives and practices’	4
The role of active methodologies in the socio-emotional development of children at risk: a case study in 3 public schools in the Basque Country	4
Editorial	4
A Significant Events Approach to Children’s Rights with children under three in early childhood education and care	4
What if children affected by sleep disorder and aggression could regulate their emotions?	4
Children’s participation rights in practice: exploring circle time as a space for participation in preschool classrooms	4
A funds of knowledge approach to explore how play-based pedagogies support mixed ethnic identity formation: listening to children’s perspectives	4
« Yeah, I am making new stuff! »: responsivity to and negotiations of agency during digital storytelling in preschool	4
Zoom play: Affectively mobilised collective play across Family Day Care settings	4
Exploring early childhood educators’ understanding of social sustainability in England: implications for policy and practice	4
The pathways to assent in early childhood research: what do parents of young children want?	4
A decolonizing approach to early learning: toddlers’ and preschoolers’ engagement with the land and indigenous ways of knowing	3
Risk willingness in play: exploring children’s behaviour in a virtual reality playground	3
The relation between structural family characteristics and parental attitudes with respect to the use of ECEC for one- and two-year-old children in Germany	3
Early childhood language access and deaf-ethnic identity in a double minority context: implications for inclusive early education	3
Interprofessional collaboration in ECEC: a review of European countries with different levels of system integration	3
Reconceptualizing professional development through job-embedded approach: early childhood teachers’ views on benefits and challenges	3
Engaging children in what-if thinking through read-aloud conversations in early childhood education for sustainability	3
Vocal fatigue of kindergarten teachers in China and its influential factors: a chain mediating model	3
Professional development for praxis transformation in early childhood education and care: a systematic review	3
Inclusion as an ethical construct – moving beyond action and practice to inclusion as a place of encounter	3
Practitioner inquiry: troubling certainty	3
Robust children: exploring engagement with academic subjects, well-being and psychological safety in schoolchildren aged 6–9 years in Norway	3
The role of pedagogical documentation in child and parent participation: an investigation of educator and parent perspectives in a Reggio Emilia-inspired preschool	3
Teacher inquiry and learning stories: a site for pedagogical change	3

Safeguarding in early childhood education: rights-based, socio-cultural, and ecological perspectives from Australia, the United Kingdom, and New Zealand	3
Exploring supportive practices in diverse educational childcare settings for children with high support needs in Canada	3
Editorial	3
Measuring child perspectives: ethical and methodological considerations on the development and validation of a self-report questionnaire for children aged 5–10	3
ChatGPT, care and the ethical dilemmas entangled with teaching and research in the early years	3
‘Tell me the whole story’: moving from narrative comprehension to narrative production skills	3
‘I am the boss of the team’: power dynamics and teacher perceptions of parental involvement in youeryuan of rural China	3
A visual ethnography of parent-child interactions during ‘story-time’ in Chinese family settings	3
Effect of gender-neutral activities on preschool children’s gender stereotypes	3
Children’s participation when transitioning between early childhood education and care settings: potentials for readjusting institutional logics	3
A cultural-historical perspective of young children gaining autonomy in the playground	3
Professional development for ethical practice transformation	3
Complexities of men’s engagement in early childhood care and development in Africa	3
How can children best learn map skills? a step-by-step approach	3
Bridging kindergarten and school through play: the role of play pedagogies in supporting transitions in Norway	3
Tracking possible differences between female- and male staff in promoting physical activity towards girls and boys in the outdoor playground of the kindergarten	3
The impact of the ‘accelerated childhood’ culture in the UK's ECEC: practitioners’ and policy makers’ views during a professional development course	3
Professional development opportunities and a newly built daycare center: incentives in ECEC teacher job advertisements in Finland	3
Conceptual PlayWorld: creating motivating conditions for new kindergarten practices in China to support engineering education	3
Reflections from the higher education classroom: the role of playful pedagogy in the professional formation of early childhood students	3
Editorial	3
Australian multilingual early childhood educators’ use of languages in early childhood education settings: findings of a qualitative (pilot) study	3
A cultural-historical study of how a conceptual playworld creates conditions for personally meaningful mathematics in the Chinese kindergarten context	3
What’s your image of the child?Examining trajectories of prospective ECE teachers’ beliefs during practicum	3
Cultural heritage in early childhood education: a systematic review	3
Our fundamental consideration of early childhood education and care: the need for dialogue	3
The effect of home literacy environment on preschool children’s learning dispositions	3
Association between speech production and ECEC intensity: differences by family background	3
Selecting between public and private early childhood education and care in the Nordic context: the roles of socioeconomic status, municipal subsidies and parents’ attitudes	2
Creative research methodology in exploring young children's humor	2
Preschool children’s discourses on gender during dramatic play from critical perspective	2
The inclusion of children with disabilities in early childhood education: interdisciplinary research and dialogue	2
Artificial intelligence in early childhood education: a systematic review of trends, methods, and recommendations for quality education	2
Praxeological action research: a Froebelian approach for professional development, flourishment and wellbeing	2
Preschool educators’ perspectives on child well-being within decentralized education systems: insights from Bosnia and Herzegovina	2
The years children spent in early education in relation to their social relations and objects of attention	2
Detection of children at risk of maltreatment: longitudinal understanding of teachers’ concern for children’s home situation in Sweden	2
Toward exploring a new path for parenting within a digital environment: an investigation of Korean fathers’ online involvement in parenting	2
Exploring positive team leadership in Finnish ECEC: insights from the team leadership questionnaire and PRIDE	2
Limited representation of disability in early childhood classrooms: data from South Korea	2
Values in English and Swedish Pre School Teachers: a comparative case study in early childhood settings	2
Children’s bodily positioning in accounts of naptime in early childhood education and care: a Foucauldian perspective	2
Investigation of foreign body aspiration knowledge and first-aid self-efficacy of child development department students	2
Pedagogical practices for the infant-toddler’s first day of transition from home care to early childhood education and care	2
Teachers’ interactions with children in micro-level transitions in Norwegian preschools	2
Academic rigour and ideology are not incompatible in early childhood research	2
Professionalising ECCE in South Africa is not child’s play! Determining skills gaps and implications for future sector development	2
Making connections with children: children’s rights, ethics and research methods	2
The types of work of early childhood education and care professionals: an interactive perspective	2
Early childhood teachers’ emotion regulation and socialization of children’s emotions: the mediating role of their perceived relationship with children*	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
Using music during toddlers’ nursery adaptation: a cross-sectional survey of early-childhood educators in Osijek, Croatia	2
Representation of STEM professions in children’s picture books: a content analysis	2
A triangle of curiosity: infants, researchers, and the video camera	2
Tracing theoretical concepts in student/teacher conversations during a practicum	2
How similar is Hong Kong’s play-based learning pedagogy to Fröbel’s Spielpädagogik?	2
‘I tried five times, and the sixth time I managed'. Children’s experiences with pedagogical videos on social and emotional learning	2
Newcomer object ownership negotiations when transitioning from home care to early childhood education and care in Finland	2
Living in heaven and buried in the earth? Teaching young children about death	2
Early Years leadership development during workforce crisis: perspectives of 24 UK training providers	2
A comparison of national food and meal guidelines in early childhood education and care (ECEC) institutions in Italy, Norway and Sweden	2
The influence of family life on the pedagogical praxis of male teachers in early childhood education and care	2
The enculturation process in early childhood education and care: a mixed methods study	2
How do pre-school teachers in Turkey make sense of emotional and behavioural disorder risk?	2
Pedagogic mediation for praxis development: supporting leaders and mentors in the English ECEC context	2
Mirror, mirror, on the wall! Are all stepparents wicked? Impressions of stepparents’ role in the fairy tales	1
Time to play, time to think: meaningful moments in the forest	1
From ‘what’ to ‘why’: plotting the emergence and frequency of children's questions from 30 to 42 months of age	1
Early science education for toddlers (1–3-year-olds) in natural environments – exploring the perspectives of early childhood teachers in Norway	1
Exploring the landscape of mindfulness practice in early childhood education in Ireland	1
‘Go away from this galaxy coronavirus’: children’s meanings and feelings of the Covid-19 pandemic through narrated drawings	1
Paving the way for slow pedagogy: leadership lessons from Icelandic preschools	1
‘Fostering resilience: the impact of supportive organizational culture on mitigating burnout in early childhood educators’	1
Documenting special educational needs in digital systems: professional practice and agentic possibilities	1
Becoming a professional: exploring vulnerabilities in an Australian birth-to-three-year-old professional experience	1
The effect of interactive book reading with digital tools on prosocial behaviours in early childhood education: a quasi-experimental study	1
Teaching under fire: preschool and kindergarten teachers’ personal, professional, and social predictors of stress and well-being in wartime	1
What do adults learn through play regarding interactions and communication with children?	1
Children’s understanding and STEM-related experiences of solar energy and technologies in a smart kindergarten in Norway	1
Investigation of play skills of children with typical development and language and speech disorders according to demographic variables	1

From the Mosaic approach to cultural probes: why research improves when participants can choose	1
‘A long way to get here and a long way to go': a case study on changing lunch meal practices in a Norwegian kindergarten	1
Observing preschoolers' engagement with a digital book library: insights from children of diverse backgrounds in Türkiye	1
Examining the intercultural competence of early-childhood teachers	1
Quality early childhood education for all children?	1
Exploring children’s participation from Froebelian practitioners’ perspectives in Scottish context	1
Educators as enablers of young children's voice and agency in research: messages from an Irish study on Intergenerational Learning	1
Engagement and interaction patterns of children with disabilities in inclusive early childhood education and care – relations to activity setting, language and social skills	1
Parents’ understandings and practices regarding play and learning	1
Individualized education program development in early childhood education: a disabled children’s childhood studies perspective	1
Panel of Referees	1
Up and Down: Insights from a creative approach to online interactions with very young children	1
Importance of children's play: the Croatian experience of future ECEC teachers	1
Where are you going? Lessons learned from Irish ECEC educators’ intuitive implementation of slow pedagogy during the COVID-19 pandemic	1
Observation as a professional tool for early childhood teachers’ inquiry habit of mind : an interpretative phenomenological study	1
Young children as theory makers and co-creators of cultural practices: challenging the authenticity of Santa	1
Digital resources and parental mediation parallelly mediate the impact of SES on early digital literacy among Chinese preschoolers	1
Professional passive practice mentoring system in study program ‘Teaching for pre-school education’ in Albanian HEI-s	1
Professional well-being in professional learning communities of early childhood teachers	1
‘Making potions and jumping on the moon’: exploring young children’s understanding of science and scientists using the Draw a Scientist Test (DAST)	1
Choosing to care: examining the role of motivation, practicum experiences, and working conditions on aspiring childcare professionals in Flanders	1
Artificial intelligence in early childhood classrooms: insights from in-service and pre-service teachers	1
‘The most important thing in first grade is to make friends’	1
Creative methods and methodologies in early childhood education and care (ECEC)	1
‘There is something special between us’ : reimagining assessment through CARIÑO	1
Men in early childhood education and care: on navigating a gendered terrain	1
Early childhood educators’ understandings of quality in five countries: similarities and differences to policy	1
Playful opportunities for participation for children under three years and professional practice with infant-toddlers in ECEC: a literature review	1
Impact of a life skills program on preschool children's social problem-solving skills in Türkiye	1
Interacting and communicating with children: an exploratory study about educators’ behavior during a collaborative activity	1
Playing outside, thriving inside: exploring the impact of outdoor play frequency on emotional intelligence in children aged 5–6	1
Burnout among kindergarten teachers working long hours: causes and strategies for mitigation	1
A place for Miguel: discovering the power of belonging within an inclusive toddler community	1
Exploring parental competences in Spanish fathers and mothers of children aged 0–3: relationship with socio-familial and child characteristics	1
Engaging young children with disabilities or at developmental risk in participatory research: a scoping review	1
School readiness and pre-primary learning experiences of children of refugee backgrounds in Tanzania: the mediating role of family socio-economic status	1
Work demands and work resources in ECEC – turnover intentions explored	1
Editorial	1
Democratic spaces for ECEC teachers’ professional development: the case of the RIECU Network in Spain	1
Pedagogical strategies for supporting young children’s technical and social understandings of the internet as a basis for online safety education in the early years	1
Protective factors promoting participatory rights for early childhood children in residential care facilities in Harare, Zimbabwe	1