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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)
ArticleCitations
Panel of Referees38
Harnessing abilities and talents: parents’ perspectives on responsive inclusive early childhood education30
Capturing family soundscapes for a deeper understanding and knowledge of early childhood music education: the contributions made by LENA® technology26
Investigation of the effectiveness of the training given on home accidents and safety precautions24
Finnish ECEC personnel’s views on the challenging nature of promoting social justice: a sustainability research perspective19
Fear and Othering in the inclusive early childhood classroom: remnants from the past19
An exploratory study of children’s peer touch in a Swedish preschool: touch forms, bodily arrangements, and social constellations16
From the uncertain times to today: unveiling the early childhood education research with keywords16
My world of machines: an integrated STEM education curriculum for early childhood teachers13
Unleashing the potential: illuminating pedagogical strategies employed by early childhood educators in stem education for cultivating algorithmic thinking skills in young learners13
Young children’s interactions with a social robot during a drawing task12
Role of mentoring as a pathway for professional growth in early childhood teacher education11
It’s up to you if you want to take part . Supporting young children’s informed choice about research participation with simple visual booklets11
Special educators’ approaches to supporting autistic children in mainstream preschools: ethical and social perspectives10
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
Pedagogical documentation as a strategy for planning and communicating children’s learning and pedagogical day-to-day life9
Exploring children’s perceptions of family relationships in China through kinetic family drawing: insights from 5- to 6-year olds9
Special Issue on Pedagogical Documentation – Researching a Powerful and Evolving Idea9
‘How are rainbows made?': profiles of early childhood teachers' beliefs and their associations with responses to young children's causal questions8
Children’s critical thinking skills: perceptions of Norwegian early childhood educators8
Migrant children transitioning from kindergarten to primary school in Germany: educators’ and parents’ views of school transition activities8
Educators’ perceptions of Australia’s early childhood education and care quality assurance rating system8
The visibility of ethics within early childhood research; revised standards for our international community of practice7
Im/migrant parents’ voices as enabling professional learning communities in early childhood education and care7
Assessing Global and Math-Specific Teacher-Child Interaction Quality in Early Childcare Settings: A Systematic Literature Review of Instruments Used in Research7
Tensions, assumptions and situated ethics: attuning to the unpredictability of ethics in early childhood research participation7
Early childhood educators’ emotional exhaustion and the frequency of educational activities in preschool7
The effects of shared book reading on language and literacy development of ESL/EFL learners: a multi-level meta-analysis7
Evaluating popular STEM applications for young children7
Correction7
Relationships between socioecological characteristics and families’ playground use in different seasons in Finland6
The development of early childhood teachers’ sociodramatic and imaginative play skills through a drama-based professional development program6
Parental attachment and emotion regulation in children: the mediating role of working memory6
Enrichment and safety -the parents of young children constructing early childhood education and care institution in Finland6
Relations between reading skill level in fifth grade and functional language skills at toddler age6
EECERA ethical code for early childhood researchers6
The social language environment – domain: ECEC teachers’ self-reported ratings of strategies in teaching literacy6
Curriculum design and content in Czech pre-primary education: approaches and experiences of student teachers6
« Yeah, I am making new stuff! »: responsivity to and negotiations of agency during digital storytelling in preschool5
Noblesse oblige? Job position and early childhood leadership in China: the moderating role of school type5
Exploring children’s well-being in daycare: how do children feel all day?5
Attitudes towards reading amongst kindergarten and Grade 1 children5
Educators’ responses to children’s grieving: exploring emotional configurations in flexibly scheduled early childhood education and care5
Conceptualizing diversity in ECEC policy: implications for the role of diverse preschool in Sweden5
Bridging early childhood education and inclusive practices in classrooms that serve children with disabilities: a narrative portrait5
Improving the quality of adaptive learning support provided by kindergarten teachers in play-based mathematical learning situations5
The effects of teacher-led and teacher-guided interventions on preschool children’s motor competency5
Educators’ perspectives on parental belonging in preschool communities5
Using teach ECE to observe the quality of online teaching during the pandemic: an exploratory study in a pre-school in Chile5
Transformation in early childhood education: proposing a community-based approach5
Zoom play: Affectively mobilised collective play across Family Day Care settings4
Understanding preschool teachers’ pedagogical leadership through individual and collective reflection4
A cultural-historical perspective of young children gaining autonomy in the playground4
Australian multilingual early childhood educators’ use of languages in early childhood education settings: findings of a qualitative (pilot) study4
What’s your image of the child?Examining trajectories of prospective ECE teachers’ beliefs during practicum4
A Significant Events Approach to Children’s Rights with children under three in early childhood education and care4
The role of active methodologies in the socio-emotional development of children at risk: a case study in 3 public schools in the Basque Country4
Editorial4
Professional development for praxis transformation in early childhood education and care: a systematic review4
A decolonizing approach to early learning: toddlers’ and preschoolers’ engagement with the land and indigenous ways of knowing4
Practitioner inquiry: troubling certainty4
The pathways to assent in early childhood research: what do parents of young children want?4
Exploring parents’ perceptions of preschoolers’ risky outdoor play using a socio-ecological lens4
What if children affected by sleep disorder and aggression could regulate their emotions?4
Professional development for ethical practice transformation4
Inviting inquiry on pedagogical documentation in Singapore: perspectives of parents and teachers4
The impact of the ‘accelerated childhood’ culture in the UK's ECEC: practitioners’ and policy makers’ views during a professional development course*3
Reconceptualizing professional development through job-embedded approach: early childhood teachers’ views on benefits and challenges3
Interprofessional collaboration in ECEC: a review of European countries with different levels of system integration3
ChatGPT, care and the ethical dilemmas entangled with teaching and research in the early years3
Cultural heritage in early childhood education: a systematic review3
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
Effect of gender-neutral activities on preschool children’s gender stereotypes3
Preschool children’s agency in education for sustainability: the case of Sweden3
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
Children’s participation when transitioning between early childhood education and care settings: potentials for readjusting institutional logics3
Vocal fatigue of kindergarten teachers in China and its influential factors: a chain mediating model3
Professional development opportunities and a newly built daycare center: incentives in ECEC teacher job advertisements in Finland3
Reflections from the higher education classroom: the role of playful pedagogy in the professional formation of early childhood students3
Engaging children in what-if thinking through read-aloud conversations in early childhood education for sustainability3
Editorial3
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
Teachers’ interactions with children in micro-level transitions in Norwegian preschools3
Editorial3
‘Tell me the whole story’: moving from narrative comprehension to narrative production skills3
How can children best learn map skills? a step-by-step approach3
Complexities of men’s engagement in early childhood care and development in Africa3
A cultural-historical study of how a conceptual playworld creates conditions for personally meaningful mathematics in the Chinese kindergarten context3
Tracking possible differences between female- and male staff in promoting physical activity towards girls and boys in the outdoor playground of the kindergarten3
A visual ethnography of parent-child interactions during ‘story-time’ in Chinese family settings3
The effect of home literacy environment on preschool children’s learning dispositions3
Teacher inquiry and learning stories: a site for pedagogical change3
Conceptual PlayWorld: creating motivating conditions for new kindergarten practices in China to support engineering education3
A comparison of national food and meal guidelines in early childhood education and care (ECEC) institutions in Italy, Norway and Sweden2
What do adults learn through play regarding interactions and communication with children?2
The influence of family life on the pedagogical praxis of male teachers in early childhood education and care2
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
The enculturation process in early childhood education and care: a mixed methods study2
Do my words convey what children are saying? Researching school life with very young children: dilemmas for ‘authentic listening’2
Early Years leadership development during workforce crisis: perspectives of 24 UK training providers2
‘I tried five times, and the sixth time I managed'. Children’s experiences with pedagogical videos on social and emotional learning2
How similar is Hong Kong’s play-based learning pedagogy to Fröbel’s Spielpädagogik?2
Toward exploring a new path for parenting within a digital environment: an investigation of Korean fathers’ online involvement in parenting2
Praxeological action research: a Froebelian approach for professional development, flourishment and wellbeing2
Work demands and work resources in ECEC – turnover intentions explored2
A triangle of curiosity: infants, researchers, and the video camera2
The types of work of early childhood education and care professionals: an interactive perspective2
Limited representation of disability in early childhood classrooms: data from South Korea2
Digital resources and parental mediation parallelly mediate the impact of SES on early digital literacy among Chinese preschoolers2
Children’s perspectives about belonging in educational settings in five European countries2
Academic rigour and ideology are not incompatible in early childhood research2
Creative research methodology in exploring young children's humor2
Children’s bodily positioning in accounts of naptime in early childhood education and care: a Foucauldian perspective2
Leave only footprints: how children communicate a sense of ownership and belonging in an art gallery2
Preschool children’s discourses on gender during dramatic play from critical perspective2
Pedagogic mediation for praxis development: supporting leaders and mentors in the English ECEC context2
‘Why am I in all of these pictures?’ From Learning Stories to Lived Stories: the politics of children’s participation rights in documentation practices2
Professionalising ECCE in South Africa is not child’s play! Determining skills gaps and implications for future sector development2
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
Making connections with children: children’s rights, ethics and research methods2
Values in English and Swedish Pre School Teachers: a comparative case study in early childhood settings2
How do pre-school teachers in Turkey make sense of emotional and behavioural disorder risk?2
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
Investigation of foreign body aspiration knowledge and first-aid self-efficacy of child development department students2
Living in heaven and buried in the earth? Teaching young children about death2
Detection of children at risk of maltreatment: longitudinal understanding of teachers’ concern for children’s home situation in Sweden2
Quality early childhood education for all children?2
Observing preschoolers' engagement with a digital book library: insights from children of diverse backgrounds in Türkiye1
Time to play, time to think: meaningful moments in the forest1
Editorial1
‘Making potions and jumping on the moon’: exploring young children’s understanding of science and scientists using the Draw a Scientist Test (DAST)1
Early science education for toddlers (1–3-year-olds) in natural environments – exploring the perspectives of early childhood teachers in Norway1
Exploring parental competences in Spanish fathers and mothers of children aged 0–3: relationship with socio-familial and child characteristics1
Investigation of play skills of children with typical development and language and speech disorders according to demographic variables1
Pursuing early childhood inclusion through reinforcing partnerships with parents of disabled children: beliefs of Greek pre-service early childhood educators1
The interrelationship between pre-primary and early primary school teachers’ learning in the professional community and burnout: a person-centered approach1
In-service professional development to enhance interaction – staffs’ reflections, experiences and skills1
Democratic spaces for ECEC teachers’ professional development: the case of the RIECU Network in Spain1
The plural uses of pedagogical documentation in Pedagogy-in-Participation1
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
Young children as theory makers and co-creators of cultural practices: challenging the authenticity of Santa1
‘Go away from this galaxy coronavirus’: children’s meanings and feelings of the Covid-19 pandemic through narrated drawings1
‘The most important thing in first grade is to make friends’1
Individualized education program development in early childhood education: a disabled children’s childhood studies perspective1
From the Mosaic approach to cultural probes: why research improves when participants can choose1
Observation as a professional tool for early childhood teachers’ inquiry habit of mind : an interpretative phenomenological study1
‘Fostering resilience: the impact of supportive organizational culture on mitigating burnout in early childhood educators’1
Professional passive practice mentoring system in study program ‘Teaching for pre-school education’ in Albanian HEI-s1
Parents’ understandings and practices regarding play and learning1
The use of information and communication technology in pedagogical documentation: an investigation of early childhood education in China1
Mirror, mirror, on the wall! Are all stepparents wicked? Impressions of stepparents’ role in the fairy tales1
Burnout among kindergarten teachers working long hours: causes and strategies for mitigation1
Children’s understanding and STEM-related experiences of solar energy and technologies in a smart kindergarten in Norway1
Becoming a professional: exploring vulnerabilities in an Australian birth-to-three-year-old professional experience1
Educators as enablers of young children's voice and agency in research: messages from an Irish study on Intergenerational Learning1
A place for Miguel: discovering the power of belonging within an inclusive toddler community1
Correction1
Examining the intercultural competence of early-childhood teachers1
Importance of children's play: the Croatian experience of future ECEC teachers1
Exploring the landscape of mindfulness practice in early childhood education in Ireland1
Playing outside, thriving inside: exploring the impact of outdoor play frequency on emotional intelligence in children aged 5–61
Interacting and communicating with children: an exploratory study about educators’ behavior during a collaborative activity1
Protective factors promoting participatory rights for early childhood children in residential care facilities in Harare, Zimbabwe1
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
You are stuck here, at the office: Chilean ECEC principals’ pedagogical leadership in JUNJI and Integra Foundation1
Professionals’ Perceptions of the Classroom Assessment Scoring System as a structure for professional community and development1
Men in early childhood education and care: on navigating a gendered terrain1
Creative methods and methodologies in early childhood education and care (ECEC)1
Exploring children’s participation from Froebelian practitioners’ perspectives in Scottish context1
Panel of Referees1
Choosing to care: examining the role of motivation, practicum experiences, and working conditions on aspiring childcare professionals in Flanders1
From ‘what’ to ‘why’: plotting the emergence and frequency of children's questions from 30 to 42 months of age1
Where are you going? Lessons learned from Irish ECEC educators’ intuitive implementation of slow pedagogy during the COVID-19 pandemic1
‘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
Teaching under fire: preschool and kindergarten teachers’ personal, professional, and social predictors of stress and well-being in wartime1
Any questions? Young children questioning in their early childhood education settings1
School readiness and pre-primary learning experiences of children of refugee backgrounds in Tanzania: the mediating role of family socio-economic status1
Paving the way for slow pedagogy: leadership lessons from Icelandic preschools1
Early childhood educators’ understandings of quality in five countries: similarities and differences to policy1
Up and Down: Insights from a creative approach to online interactions with very young children1
Documenting special educational needs in digital systems: professional practice and agentic possibilities1
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