Early Childhood Education Journal

Papers
(The TQCC of Early Childhood Education Journal is 4. 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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)
ArticleCitations
Correction: Empowering Young Writers: A Multimodal Case Study of Emergent Writing in Urban Preschool Classrooms64
Home Literacy and Mathematics in Bulgaria, Israel, Spain, and the U.S.: How Do Preschool Parents Socialize Academic Readiness?51
“What we have done is baking together”: Asian Immigrant Parents’ Perspectives and Experiences Regarding Children’s Mental Health Related to Online Learning During the COVID-19 Pandemic41
Embracing Imaginary Play: A Pedagogical Shift in Supporting Children’s Mathematical Transition To School Through the Intervention of Conceptual PlayWorld39
Infusing Physical Activity into Early Childhood Classrooms: Guidance for Best Practices37
Sustained Attention in Three-Year-Old Children: The Impact of Teaching Conditions and Choice36
Celebrating Pathways to Joyful and Meaningful Writing with Young Children34
Balancing Acts: Parental Risk Tolerance in Children’s Play and its Impact on Emotion Regulation and Problem Symptoms34
“Highway Closures and Flow Detours”: Shifting the Mindset of Pre-service Early Childhood Educators Through Number Operations with Base-12 Blocks33
The Well-Being of Early Childhood Providers in Ireland32
Investigating Informational Text Read-alouds in Greek Kindergarten Classrooms: Differences According to Text Structures24
Greek Preschool Children’s Disaffection and its Relation to the Quality of Early Childhood Education and Care22
Prevalence of Number, Number Relations, and Number Operations Indicators in State Early Learning Standards21
Effect of Problem Behaviors on Early Literacy Skills: A Malaysian Experience20
Maternal Parenting Stress: Characteristics and Bidirectional Associations with Mastery Motivation in Preschoolers20
Phonics-Based Instruction and Improvement in Foundational Reading Skills of Kindergartners in the Indian Schooling Context19
Correction to: Pathways to Quality: Teacher Efficacy Mediates Professional Perceptions’ Impact on Teacher–Child Interactions19
What Makes Young Children Happy? Exploring Well-Being Through Children’s Perspectives in Early Childhood Education19
What Happened During Teacher Visits? A Closer Look at the Parent Engagement Effort of the HighScope Perry Preschool Project18
Preschool Teacher Demand in China by 2050: A Prediction Analysis of the Impact of Negative Population Growth18
Mathematical Ability at a Very Young Age: The Contributions of Relationship Quality with Parents and Teachers via Children’s Language and Literacy Abilities18
Dreams of Preschool Children with Earthquake Experience: The Case of Kahramanmaraş18
The Portrayal of Characters with Learning Disabilities in Children’s Picturebooks17
Correction: Fostering Informed and Responsive Systems for Trauma in Early Care and Education (FIRST:ECE): A Preliminary Evaluation17
Developing Emotional Intelligence in Children Through Dialogic Reading, Self-made Books, and Visible Thinking Routines16
Supporting Inclusion in Early Childhood Through Itinerant Service Delivery: A Systematic Literature Review16
Strategies for Successful Dental Visits for Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder15
Cause for Concern? The Relationship Between Language Skills in Toddlers and Later Reading Skills in School15
Prediction of Preschool Teacher Demand Under China’s Three-Child Policy: A Case Study of Shanghai15
Maternal Perceptions of Paternal Coparenting in Chinese Migrant-Child Families: A Qualitative Study15
Context Matters: Factors that Influence Storytime Providers’ Knowledge, Beliefs, and Self-Efficacy15
Expulsion from Community Childcare: Administrators Share Beliefs of Causes and Potential Solutions15
Supporting Children Through Grief: A Content Analysis of Picturebooks About Death15
Engaging Young Children in STEAM Learning: An Inquiry Planning Guide for Early Educators14
Supporting Young Readers: A Mixed-Methods Study of Their Literacy, Behaviour, and Perceptions When Reading Aloud to Dogs or Adults14
Facilitating Social Engagement in Young Autistic Children Through Child Directed Strategies in the Early Childhood Classroom14
Preservice Teachers’ Online Teaching Experiences During COVID-1913
Development and Validation of the Children’s STEM Habits of Mind Questionnaire13
Teacher Motivational Scaffolding and Preschoolers’ Motivational Triggers in the Context of Playful Learning of Multiliteracy and Digital Skills13
Early Childhood Practitioners’ Perceptions of Children’s Risky Play Based on Childhood and Present Practice: A Questionnaire Survey in Japan12
The Impact of Oral Language and Transcription Skills on Early Writing Production in Kindergarteners: Productivity and Quality12
Co-Viewing Mass Media to Support Children and Parents’ Emotional ABCs: An Evaluation of Ahlan Simsim12
Social Competence of 5-year-olds during Societal Crisis12
Moderating Factors in the Relationship Between Home Literacy Environment and Early Word Reading Skills: Results from Cantonese–English Bilinguals11
Picturebooks in the Primary Grades: Representation and the Stories Shared About Who Belongs in STEM11
Leveraging Science to Accelerate Reading Achievement in a Summer Learning Program for Low-Income Children11
Reciprocal Family Engagement Strategies in U.S. Early Childhood Systems: A Qualitative Study11
Artful Echoes: Amplifying SEL Through Interactive Read-Alouds and Arts Engagement11
Occupational Well-Being of Early Childhood Teachers: A Review of Relevant Literature Between 2016–202311
Using “Learn the Signs. Act Early” to Influence the Caregiver and Educator Relationship and Increase Collaboration of Developmental Monitoring in Early Head Start Settings11
A Scoping Literature Review of the Pyramid Model10
More Than Words: A Qualitative Study on the Links Between Preschool Teachers’ Classroom Practices and Their Language Ideologies About Dual Language Learners10
Within-Classroom Play: Cultivating Autonomy, Competence, and Relatedness During the Transition to Kindergarten10
Declared Practices of Language Facilitation in Early Childhood Education and Care with Children Younger than Two Years10
Turn-over and Retention Among Head Start Educators10
An Arts-Based Lesson: Chinese Heritage Children’s Multimodal Early Writing Using Fallen Leaves10
Mechanisms of High-Quality Collaborative Partnerships in Early Childhood Settings10
Correction to: Teachers’ and Parents’ Perspectives on the Feasibility of a Preschool-Based Behavioral Intervention to Prevent Obesity: An Embedded Qualitative Study within ToyBox Study Malaysia10
Effects of a Teacher Professional Development Program for the Transition to School on Preschoolers' Social-Emotional Adjustment and School Readiness10
What Affects the Resilience of Novice Kindergarten Teachers? - An Empirical Study from 5379 Novice Kindergarten Teachers in China10
An Exploration of Ready, Set, Share A Book! Intervention for Enhancing Parent Book Sharing with Infants and Toddlers10
Choose Your Own Adventure: Promoting Social and Emotional Development Through Outdoor Learning9
Children’s Question Asking in Early Childhood Education: Supportive Strategies and Motivational Contexts9
Weaving the Fabric of Social and Emotional Learning in the Context of Teaching: A Study in Hong Kong Kindergarten Classrooms9
Play-Activities with Scientific Content in Early Childhood Education9
Examining the Validity of an Observational Tool of Classroom Support for Children’s Engagement in Learning9
Emergent Literacy Instruction for Autistic Children: A Preliminary Study of Teacher Knowledge9
Culturally Responsive Instruction in Early Childhood Education in Tanzania: Teachers’ Beliefs and Instructional Challenges8
Parenting Style and Child Aggressive Behavior from Preschool to Elementary School: The Mediating Effect of Emotion Dysregulation8
Exploring Early Childhood Teachers’ Beliefs About STEAM Education in Saudi Arabia8
Exploring Books for Beginning Readers: Comparing Leveled Readers and Geisel Award Books8
Exploring the Impact of Gratitude Practice as a Protective Factor for Young Children8
Crisis, Policy, and Practice: Early Learning and Childcare in Scotland during the COVID-19 Pandemic8
Environmental Factors Predicting Young Children’s Secure Exploration8
Scribbling and Early Literacy Connections: How do Early Childhood Teachers Perceive Scribbles?8
When Do Children Forgive: The Impact of the Transgressor’s Intention and Authority on Children’s Forgiveness8
Measuring Home Activities and Participation of Children Receiving Early Childhood Intervention Services in Spain8
The Efficacy of the TEACH e-Learning Course at Improving Early Childhood Education Students’ Physical Activity and Sedentary Behaviour Related Self-Efficacy, Knowledge, Intentions, and Perceived Behav8
Teacher-Child Contact and Pre-Kindergartener’s Academic and Social-Emotional Skills Following COVID-19 Disruptions8
A Content Analysis of Gender Portrayals in Turkish Children’s Picturebooks8
Direct and Indirect Impacts of Voluntary Pre-Kindergarten on Kindergarten Readiness and Achievement8
From “Survival Mode” to “#winning”: Michigan Pre-K Teachers’ Experiences During the First Year of COVID-198
How Social-Emotional Competence of Chinese Rural Kindergarten Teachers Affects Job Burnout: an Analysis Based on Mediating and Moderating Effects7
Development, Construct Validation, and Normalization of a New Early Childhood Self-Regulation Assessment Scale7
Practices, Perspectives and Perceived Difficulties in Early Detection of Autism among Early Childcare and Education Providers in France7
The Importance of Embodiment and Agency in Parents’ Positive Attitudes Towards Shared Reading with Their Children7
Seeing Teaching and Learning Differently: A Case Study of How Second Grade Teachers and their Students in Texas Make Sense of Instruction7
Introduction to the Special Issue on Effective Practices in Early Childhood Education7
“Kitty Litter-ature”: Exploring Children’s Playful Reading with Shelter Cats7
Instructional Strategies to Maintain Students’ Attention: A National Teacher Survey on Classroom-Based Breaks7
Engineering in Preschool: What Little Minds Can Teach Us About Big Skills7
Impact of a Book Distribution Program on Reading Performance at Kindergarten Enrollment7
Perception and Self-efficacy to Teach Science in Kindergarten: Undergraduate Students’ and Teachers’ Point of View6
Drawing from and Expanding their Toolboxes: Preschool Teachers’ Traditional Strategies, Unconventional Opportunities, and Novel Challenges in Scaffolding Young Children’s Social and Emotional Learning6
A Caring Ethic and the Rights of the Child: Challenges for Early Childhood Education6
Parent-Teacher Relationships and Home-Based Involvement among Head Start Families: The Role of Immigration Status6
An Examination of Inquiry-Based Project Learning in Early Childhood Settings in Aotearoa/New Zealand6
Time Out as a Regulated and Specified Element of Child Care Licensing Policy: Are Policies Aligned with the Research Base?6
Concept, Ritual, and Narrative: What Are Toddler Books?6
Assessing Young Children’s Social-Emotional Development Through the Lens of Social-Cultural Ecological Systems6
Head Start Children’s Moral Reasoning Predicts Aggressive Forms and Functions6
Stories 'with the Characters Reversed': Children's Opinions of Feminist Children's Stories in Early Education6
“Not in Our Daycare”? Commitments and Obstacles to Antiracism in Finnish ECEC6
Social Purpose and Pedagogy in the Baby Room of UK Nurseries: Exploring the What, How and Why of Working with 0–2 Year Olds6
Supporting Preschool Children with Concussions or Traumatic Brain Injuries in Early Childhood Classrooms6
Fostering Racial Literacy in Early Childhood Contexts6
Pre-service Teachers’ Perspectives on Transition to Kindergarten Practices for Autistic Children6
Making with LEGOs to Improve the Writing of Young Children6
Correction to: Supporting Families from a Distance: Implementing Routines-Based Home Visits via Telepractice6
Picturebooks and Young Children: Potential, Power, and Practices6
Quality of Infant Caregiving, Early Childhood Teachers’ Relational Perceptions, and Infant Classroom Characteristics6
Investigating Educators’ and Students’ Perspectives on Virtual Reality Enhanced Teaching in Preschool6
Supporting Preschoolers’ Motor Development in Virtual Environments: Listening to Teachers’ Voices6
Dual-language Learners’ Questions and Teacher Responses in Shared Reading in Preschool6
The Power of Picturebooks to Support Early Elementary Teachers’ Racial Literacy in Communities of Practice: An Example from the 3Rs (Reading, Racial Equity, Relationships)6
Promoting Ongoing Partnerships in Family Literacy Through Yearlong Collaborations6
Evaluation of A Business Management Program to Promote Child Care Educator Outcomes: A Randomized Controlled Trial5
Early Childhood Educators’ Pedagogical Knowledge for Effective Practice in Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Contexts5
The Impact of Professional Development on Teachers’ Views of Nature of Science (NOS): A Study on Early Years Science Education in the UAE5
“Treat Them Like Human Beings”: Black Children’s Experiences with Racial Microaggressions in Early Childhood Education During COVID-195
Preschoolers’ Cooperative Problem-Solving During Play in Chinese and U.S. Classrooms5
Financial Challenges of Family Child Care Providers During the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Phenomenological Study5
A Longitudinal Study of Children’s Digital Play Addiction Tendencies and Parental Guidance Strategies5
The Role of Maternal Influence on Children’s Extra-curricular Music Learning in China5
Learning Together: a Participatory Evaluation of the Learning Language and Loving It™ Program in an Aboriginal Community-Led Kindergarten5
“Reading is Social”: Dialogic Responses to Interactive Read-Alouds with Nonfiction Picturebooks5
Quality in Norwegian Early Childhood Education and Care: Progress, Persistent Challenges, and Recommendations for the Future5
A Qualitative Exploration of Early Childhood Educators’ Declared Practices when Supporting Preschoolers’ Oral Language Development5
Stimulating the Development of Rhythmic Abilities in Preschool Children in Montessori Kindergartens with Music-Movement Activities: A Quasi-Experimental Study5
Comparing Full-Day and Half-Day Kindergarten Then and Now: What Data from Two ECLS-K Cohorts Reveal About Changes in Demographics and Child Outcomes5
“A Piece of Normal Life When Everything Else is Changed” Remote Early Childhood Music Classes and Toddler Socialization5
Exploring Patterns of Self-control and the Relationship with Home-rearing Environment Among Preschoolers5
“I’m the Head Zoologist!”: Integrating Science and Literacy Learning in Kindergarten with Inquiry and Animals5
Children’s Concepts of the Environment: An Opportunity for Environmental Education as a Tool for Sustainability in Botswana Preschools5
Authenticity, Accuracy, and Respect in Picturebooks About Africa: Implications for Pedagogy in the United States5
Children’s Perceptions of Elementary School in South Korea Before and After Entering School5
Preschool Children’s Deeper-Learning in Mature Play5
Creating a Code of Ethics for the Early Childhood Education Profession: A Delphi Study with Cross-National Comparisons5
Incorporating the 6E Model Integrated with Creative Thinking Strategies into STEAM Education: Enhancing Children’s Fine Motor Skills, Hands-on Performance, and Learning Behaviors5
Who Gets to Decide? A Case Study Exploring Tennessee’s Early Childhood Literacy Initiatives5
Pentagon or “Five-Angle Shape”? Exploring the Effects of Shape Names on Young Children’s Geometric Shape Knowledge5
Correction to: “Children Have the Fairest Things to Say”: Young Children’s Engagement with Anti-Bias Picture Books5
Responding to the Needs of Early Literacy Teachers: Designing Online Professional Development to Improve Writing Instruction for Multilingual Learners5
When Saint-Saëns’ Elephant Becomes a Child’s Raindrops: Korean Young Children’s Appreciation of Music through Drawings5
You Don’t Have to Re-invent the Wheel to Implement Technology Activities in Early Childhood Education5
Young Japanese Children’s Subjectification and Objectification Through the Lens of Joint Labor in a Mathematical Activity at a Preschool: A Case Study5
Supporting Early Math Learning Along a Continuum of Guided Play5
Correction: Seeing Gender, Feeling Gender: Preschool Children’s Constructions of Masculinity, Femininity, and Emotion Through Photovoice5
Peer Aggression and Victimisation: Social Behaviour Strategies in Early Childhood in Spain5
Still Life and Human Rights in Early Childhood: An Arts-based Study on the Passage of Time and the Relationship Between Life and Death5
Teacher Efficacy, Its Sources, and Implementation in Early Childhood Education5
Let’s Do Engineering: Engineers and Creative Practitioners Experiences of Co-creating Activities and Resources for 3–7 Year-Olds, and Teacher Evaluation of Resource Effectiveness5
“Essential One Day and Forgotten the Next”: Perceptions of Ohio’s Early Childhood Workforce on Their Exclusion from the Educator Phase of COVID-19 Vaccine Distribution5
Incorporating Humanoid Artificial Intelligence (AI) Robots into Early Childhood Education5
Exploring the Relationship Between Engineering Habits of Mind and Self-Regulation Skills in Children5
STEAM in Early Childhood: An Analysis Towards Teachers’ and Children’s Perspectives4
Engaging Young Children with Science Concepts in a Community-Based Book Distribution and Animal-Themed Literacy Intervention Program4
Culturally Responsive Teaching Efficacy of Teachers at Inclusive Preschools in Taiwan4
Representations of Children’s Finnish Language Skills in Early Childhood Education and Care Plan Meetings Between Teachers and Language Minority Parents4
Are They Ready for Sustainability? A Study of the Environmental Attitudes of Early Childhood In-Service Teachers4
Preschool Teachers’ Perceptions of Children’s Learning: Above and Beyond the Impact of Semi-Structured, Inclusive Motor Play Activities4
Factors Explaining the Schooling of Children Under 3 Years of Age: Evidence from Spain4
Content Analysis of Portrayals of Climate Change in Turkish Picturebooks4
Preschool Teachers’ Knowledge, Understanding, and Beliefs Regarding Children with Speech Sound Disorders and Inclusion in the General Education Setting4
Parent and Teacher Perceptions of the Parent–Teacher Relationship and Child Self-regulation in Preschool: Variations by Child Race4
Ruler by Steps (RbySteps): Exploring Length Measurement with Young Children Through a Sequential Ruler Construction4
Home Visiting Intervention for Families of Left-Behind Children: Quasi-Experimental Evaluation of Child Abuse Outcomes4
From Telling to Crafting: An Analysis of Peer Review Feedback and Revision Processes of Emerging Scholars Writing for Publication4
Promoting Healthy Eating and Physical Activity in the Early Care and Education Setting as a Strategy to Improve Teacher Knowledge and Self-Efficacy4
“Early Childhood Education or Nothing”: Motivations and Experiences of a Male Teacher in Female-Dominated Early Childhood Education: a Case Study in Ghana4
English as a Foreign Language Education in East-Asian Early Childhood Education Settings: A Scoping Review4
Correction: Does the “Where” Matter? School-Based Pre-K Versus Center-Based Pre-K and its Link to Students’ Absenteeism4
Globally Minded Preschoolers: Playful Investigation of the Interdependence Between Self, Others, and Society4
Correction: “A Piece of Normal Life When Everything Else is Changed” Remote Early Childhood Music Classes and Toddler Socialization4
Fostering Informed and Responsive Systems for Trauma in Early Care and Education (FIRST:ECE): A Preliminary Evaluation4
Exploring Current State Writing Evaluation Rubrics for Early Grades4
Infusing the Pyramid Model into Pre-Service Teacher Preparation Programs4
Scaffolding Collaboration in Early Years Mathematics: A Practice-Based Case Study in Teaching Multiplicative Grouping4
Young Children’s Experience in Unplugged Activities About Computational Thinking: From an Embodied Cognition Perspective4
Examining the Relationship between Parenting Styles and Parental Math Involvement: The Role of Parental Math Beliefs4
Implementing Social-Emotional Learning in the Elementary Classroom4
Socioemotional Learning in Early Childhood Education: Experimental Evidence from the Think Equal Program’s Implementation in Colombia4
Effects of a Video Feedback Intervention on Sensitivity in Early Childhood Teachers in Chile4
Exploring Parents’ Perceptions of Early Intervention Services: A Multi-State Study4
University-Community Partnerships to Support Responsive Caregiving: The Hearts and Minds on Babies Implementation Story4
Dreamcatchers, Water Protectors, and the Question of Authenticity: Supporting Teachers in Choosing and Using Indigenous Children's Literature4
Who Has Authority over Their Knowledge? A Case Study of Academic Language Use in Science Education4
Mapping Children’s Actions in the Scaffolding Process Using Interactive Whiteboard4
Music Uses in Preschool Classrooms in the U.S.: A Multiple-Methods Study4
A Case for Humane Education for Children in India: Historical Roots and Contemporary Needs4
A Scoping Review on the Use and Potential of School-Based Drama Therapy to Enhance Socio-emotional Skills in Early Childhood4
The Mimamoru Approach in Contemporary Japanese Parenting Magazines: Strategies for Disciplining Young Children4
Effects of Trauma-Informed Training on Teacher Perceptions of Child Outcomes: Student-Teacher Relationships, Behavior, and Expulsion Risk4
Parental Ethnotheories of Child Play: The Discrepant Perspectives and Practices Among Chinese Parents4
Associations Between Peer Play Interactions and Empathy within an Early Childhood Inclusion Program for Children with Visual Impairment4
Rhythm and Reading: Connecting the Training of Musical Rhythm to the Development of Literacy Skills4
Early Childhood Intervention under the Australian National Disability Insurance Scheme: Characteristics and Recruitment Practices of Service Providers4
Are Digital Books Really Designed for Young Children? A Content Analysis of Turkish Digital Books4
Changes in Stress Following Wage Increases for Early Childhood Educators4
Understanding Chinese Pre-service Preschool Teachers’ Experiences with the MMCI Course and Coaching: A Multiple Case Study4
Expulsion from Community Childcare Centers During the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Review of One State’s Practices4
Is Confidence in Mathematics Pedagogy Enough? Exploring Early Childhood Teachers’ Mathematics Beliefs and Confidence4
Problematic Screen Use in Parents and Children: Predictor of Parent-Child Relationship Quality4
Professional Learning Supporting Multilingual Children’s Social and Emotional Development in Diverse Australian Early Childhood Education and Care Settings4
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