European Early Childhood Education Research Journal

Article	Citations
Panel of Referees	64
Harnessing abilities and talents: parents’ perspectives on responsive inclusive early childhood education	46
Capturing family soundscapes for a deeper understanding and knowledge of early childhood music education: the contributions made by LENA® technology	27
An exploratory study of children’s peer touch in a Swedish preschool: touch forms, bodily arrangements, and social constellations	26
Unleashing the potential: illuminating pedagogical strategies employed by early childhood educators in stem education for cultivating algorithmic thinking skills in young learners	17
Fear and Othering in the inclusive early childhood classroom: remnants from the past	16
Finnish ECEC personnel’s views on the challenging nature of promoting social justice: a sustainability research perspective	16
Investigation of the effectiveness of the training given on home accidents and safety precautions	15
Young children’s interactions with a social robot during a drawing task	14
From the uncertain times to today: unveiling the early childhood education research with keywords	14
My world of machines: an integrated STEM education curriculum for early childhood teachers	14
Special Issue on Pedagogical Documentation – Researching a Powerful and Evolving Idea	12
The impact of earthquake anxiety on preschool teachers: coping strategies and educational implications	11
Exploring children’s perceptions of family relationships in China through kinetic family drawing: insights from 5- to 6-year olds	10
Children’s critical thinking skills: perceptions of Norwegian early childhood educators	10
‘How are rainbows made?': profiles of early childhood teachers' beliefs and their associations with responses to young children's causal questions	9
Pedagogical documentation as a strategy for planning and communicating children’s learning and pedagogical day-to-day life	9
Educators’ perceptions of Australia’s early childhood education and care quality assurance rating system	9
It’s up to you if you want to take part . Supporting young children’s informed choice about research participation with simple visual booklets	9
The learning early childhood education and care institution as an inclusion arena	9
Tensions, assumptions and situated ethics: attuning to the unpredictability of ethics in early childhood research participation	8
Early childhood educators’ emotional exhaustion and the frequency of educational activities in preschool	8
The visibility of ethics within early childhood research; revised standards for our international community of practice	8
Evaluating popular STEM applications for young children	8
Assessing Global and Math-Specific Teacher-Child Interaction Quality in Early Childcare Settings: A Systematic Literature Review of Instruments Used in Research	8

Im/migrant parents’ voices as enabling professional learning communities in early childhood education and care	8
Using Artificial Intelligence (AI)-interfaced robotic toys in early childhood settings: a case for children’s inquiry literacy	8
The development of early childhood teachers’ sociodramatic and imaginative play skills through a drama-based professional development program	7
Relationships between socioecological characteristics and families’ playground use in different seasons in Finland	7
Enrichment and safety -the parents of young children constructing early childhood education and care institution in Finland	7
Correction	7
Relations between reading skill level in fifth grade and functional language skills at toddler age	6
Parental attachment and emotion regulation in children: the mediating role of working memory	6
Curriculum design and content in Czech pre-primary education: approaches and experiences of student teachers	6
Noblesse oblige? Job position and early childhood leadership in China: the moderating role of school type	6
Research in early childhood teacher domain-specific professional knowledge – a systematic review	6
The social language environment – domain: ECEC teachers’ self-reported ratings of strategies in teaching literacy	6
Dealing with transition in formal meetings of parents and pedagogic staff	6
Examining associations among provider-family relationships, provider coping strategies, and family child care providers’ relationships with children	6
Attitudes towards reading amongst kindergarten and Grade 1 children	6
EECERA ethical code for early childhood researchers	6
Educators’ responses to children’s grieving: exploring emotional configurations in flexibly scheduled early childhood education and care	5
Educators’ perspectives on parental belonging in preschool communities	5
Exploring children’s well-being in daycare: how do children feel all day?	5
The effects of teacher-led and teacher-guided interventions on preschool children’s motor competency	5
Transformation in early childhood education: proposing a community-based approach	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
Using teach ECE to observe the quality of online teaching during the pandemic: an exploratory study in a pre-school in Chile	5
Improving the quality of adaptive learning support provided by kindergarten teachers in play-based mathematical learning situations	5
« Yeah, I am making new stuff! »: responsivity to and negotiations of agency during digital storytelling in preschool	5
Bridging early childhood education and inclusive practices in classrooms that serve children with disabilities: a narrative portrait	5
Tracking possible differences between female- and male staff in promoting physical activity towards girls and boys in the outdoor playground of the kindergarten	4
What if children affected by sleep disorder and aggression could regulate their emotions?	4
A Significant Events Approach to Children’s Rights with children under three in early childhood education and care	4
Professional development for praxis transformation in early childhood education and care: a systematic review	4
Children save lives: evaluation of a first aid training in Norwegian kindergartens	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
Practitioner inquiry: troubling certainty	4
Professional development for ethical practice transformation	4
Zoom play: Affectively mobilised collective play across Family Day Care settings	4
Editorial	4
Engaging children in what-if thinking through read-aloud conversations in early childhood education for sustainability	4
A cultural-historical perspective of young children gaining autonomy in the playground	4
The impact of the ‘accelerated childhood’ culture in the UK's ECEC: practitioners’ and policy makers’ views during a professional development course*	3
Children’s participation when transitioning between early childhood education and care settings: potentials for readjusting institutional logics	3
The influence of parenting style on sibling relations among children aged 4–6 in rural areas in Northern China–a regression model	3
Australian multilingual early childhood educators’ use of languages in early childhood education settings: findings of a qualitative (pilot) study	3
Fraught with frights or full of fun: perspectives of risky play among six-to-eight-year olds	3
A decolonizing approach to early learning: toddlers’ and preschoolers’ engagement with the land and indigenous ways of knowing	3
How can children best learn map skills? a step-by-step approach	3
Complexities of men’s engagement in early childhood care and development in Africa	3
On the way towards integration? From monologic to dialogic encounters in Swedish rural preschools	3
A visual ethnography of parent-child interactions during ‘story-time’ in Chinese family settings	3
Interprofessional collaboration in ECEC: a review of European countries with different levels of system integration	3

Inviting inquiry on pedagogical documentation in Singapore: perspectives of parents and teachers	3
What’s your image of the child?Examining trajectories of prospective ECE teachers’ beliefs during practicum	3
ChatGPT, care and the ethical dilemmas entangled with teaching and research in the early years	3
Reflections from the higher education classroom: the role of playful pedagogy in the professional formation of early childhood students	3
‘Tell me the whole story’: moving from narrative comprehension to narrative production skills	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
Preschool children’s agency in education for sustainability: the case of Sweden	3
The effect of home literacy environment on preschool children’s learning dispositions	3
A cultural-historical study of how a conceptual playworld creates conditions for personally meaningful mathematics in the Chinese kindergarten context	3
Editorial	3
Exploring parents’ perceptions of preschoolers’ risky outdoor play using a socio-ecological lens	3
Cultural heritage in early childhood education: a systematic review	3
Effect of gender-neutral activities on preschool children’s gender stereotypes	3
Professional development opportunities and a newly built daycare center: incentives in ECEC teacher job advertisements in Finland	3
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
Pedagogical practices for the infant-toddler’s first day of transition from home care to early childhood education and care	2
How similar is Hong Kong’s play-based learning pedagogy to Fröbel’s Spielpädagogik?	2
Conceptual PlayWorld: creating motivating conditions for new kindergarten practices in China to support engineering education	2
Teachers’ interactions with children in micro-level transitions in Norwegian preschools	2
Children’s bodily positioning in accounts of naptime in early childhood education and care: a Foucauldian perspective	2
Newcomer object ownership negotiations when transitioning from home care to early childhood education and care in Finland	2
Limited representation of disability in early childhood classrooms: data from South Korea	2
Making connections with children: children’s rights, ethics and research methods	2
Nature of science in early years science teaching	2
How do pre-school teachers in Turkey make sense of emotional and behavioural disorder risk?	2
Creative research methodology in exploring young children's humor	2
Leave only footprints: how children communicate a sense of ownership and belonging in an art gallery	2
Toward exploring a new path for parenting within a digital environment: an investigation of Korean fathers’ online involvement in parenting	2
Risk willingness in play: exploring children’s behaviour in a virtual reality playground	2
Documenting towards democratic early education curriculum in the Republic of Croatia	2
The role of pedagogical documentation in child and parent participation: an investigation of educator and parent perspectives in a Reggio Emilia-inspired preschool	2
Do my words convey what children are saying? Researching school life with very young children: dilemmas for ‘authentic listening’	2
Values in English and Swedish Pre School Teachers: a comparative case study in early childhood settings	2
Pedagogic mediation for praxis development: supporting leaders and mentors in the English ECEC context	2
Ecological conditions and interpersonal skills leading to ECE teacher competences in working with immigrant children in Slovenia	2
Tracing theoretical concepts in student/teacher conversations during a practicum	2
Preschool children’s discourses on gender during dramatic play from critical perspective	2
Investigation of foreign body aspiration knowledge and first-aid self-efficacy of child development department students	2
The inclusion of children with disabilities in early childhood education: interdisciplinary research and dialogue	2
Teacher inquiry and learning stories: a site for pedagogical change	2
Vocal fatigue of kindergarten teachers in China and its influential factors: a chain mediating model	2
Engineers and engineering through the eyes of preschoolers: a phenomenographic study of children’s drawings	2
The enculturation process in early childhood education and care: a mixed methods study	2
Gender equality in five- to six-year-old preschoolers’ early competences in science do not protect schoolgirls from gender stereotypes	2
Praxeological action research: a Froebelian approach for professional development, flourishment and wellbeing	2
Children’s perspectives about belonging in educational settings in five European countries	2
Work demands and work resources in ECEC – turnover intentions explored	1
School readiness and pre-primary learning experiences of children of refugee backgrounds in Tanzania: the mediating role of family socio-economic status	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
Up and Down: Insights from a creative approach to online interactions with very young children	1
Children’s understanding and STEM-related experiences of solar energy and technologies in a smart kindergarten in Norway	1
Early childhood educators’ understandings of quality in five countries: similarities and differences to policy	1
Editorial	1
Exploring children’s participation from Froebelian practitioners’ perspectives in Scottish context	1
You are stuck here, at the office: Chilean ECEC principals’ pedagogical leadership in JUNJI and Integra Foundation	1
Observation as a professional tool for early childhood teachers’ inquiry habit of mind : an interpretative phenomenological study	1
The use of information and communication technology in pedagogical documentation: an investigation of early childhood education in China	1
Professionalising ECCE in South Africa is not child’s play! Determining skills gaps and implications for future sector development	1
Interacting and communicating with children: an exploratory study about educators’ behavior during a collaborative activity	1
The effects of STEM activities on the problem-solving skills of 6-year-old preschool children	1
Democratic spaces for ECEC teachers’ professional development: the case of the RIECU Network in Spain	1
Detection of children at risk of maltreatment: longitudinal understanding of teachers’ concern for children’s home situation in Sweden	1
A place for Miguel: discovering the power of belonging within an inclusive toddler community	1
Digital resources and parental mediation parallelly mediate the impact of SES on early digital literacy among Chinese preschoolers	1
‘The most important thing in first grade is to make friends’	1
Living in heaven and buried in the earth? Teaching young children about death	1
The influence of family life on the pedagogical praxis of male teachers in early childhood education and care	1
Children and teachers engaging together with digital technology in early childhood education and care institutions: a literature review	1
Subcontracted mothering: a discourse on professionalism in childcare in South Korea	1
Professional passive practice mentoring system in study program ‘Teaching for pre-school education’ in Albanian HEI-s	1
Quality early childhood education for all children?	1
Professionals’ Perceptions of the Classroom Assessment Scoring System as a structure for professional community and development	1
The role of the medium for verbal engagement: shared reading in groups with books and apps in Norwegian ECEC-institutions	1
Parents’ understandings and practices regarding play and learning	1
Editorial	1
From the Mosaic approach to cultural probes: why research improves when participants can choose	1
Playing outside, thriving inside: exploring the impact of outdoor play frequency on emotional intelligence in children aged 5–6	1
What do adults learn through play regarding interactions and communication with children?	1
Young children as theory makers and co-creators of cultural practices: challenging the authenticity of Santa	1
The types of work of early childhood education and care professionals: an interactive perspective	1

Professional well-being in professional learning communities of early childhood teachers	1
Early Years leadership development during workforce crisis: perspectives of 24 UK training providers	1
Academic rigour and ideology are not incompatible in early childhood research	1
‘Fostering resilience: the impact of supportive organizational culture on mitigating burnout in early childhood educators’	1
‘Go away from this galaxy coronavirus’: children’s meanings and feelings of the Covid-19 pandemic through narrated drawings	1
Exploring the landscape of mindfulness practice in early childhood education in Ireland	1
Time to play, time to think: meaningful moments in the forest	1
‘Why am I in all of these pictures?’ From Learning Stories to Lived Stories: the politics of children’s participation rights in documentation practices	1
Investigation of play skills of children with typical development and language and speech disorders according to demographic variables	1
Mirror, mirror, on the wall! Are all stepparents wicked? Impressions of stepparents’ role in the fairy tales	1
Panel of Referees	1
Protective factors promoting participatory rights for early childhood children in residential care facilities in Harare, Zimbabwe	1
Exploring parental competences in Spanish fathers and mothers of children aged 0–3: relationship with socio-familial and child characteristics	1
Examining the intercultural competence of early-childhood teachers	1
The years children spent in early education in relation to their social relations and objects of attention	1
The interrelationship between pre-primary and early primary school teachers’ learning in the professional community and burnout: a person-centered approach	1