European Early Childhood Education Research Journal

Article	Citations
Panel of Referees	71
Harnessing abilities and talents: parents’ perspectives on responsive inclusive early childhood education	52
Capturing family soundscapes for a deeper understanding and knowledge of early childhood music education: the contributions made by LENA® technology	31
From the uncertain times to today: unveiling the early childhood education research with keywords	29
Unleashing the potential: illuminating pedagogical strategies employed by early childhood educators in stem education for cultivating algorithmic thinking skills in young learners	20
Fear and Othering in the inclusive early childhood classroom: remnants from the past	19
Finnish ECEC personnel’s views on the challenging nature of promoting social justice: a sustainability research perspective	18
Investigation of the effectiveness of the training given on home accidents and safety precautions	17
My world of machines: an integrated STEM education curriculum for early childhood teachers	17
Young children’s interactions with a social robot during a drawing task	16
Special educators’ approaches to supporting autistic children in mainstream preschools: ethical and social perspectives	15
An exploratory study of children’s peer touch in a Swedish preschool: touch forms, bodily arrangements, and social constellations	15
Exploring children’s perceptions of family relationships in China through kinetic family drawing: insights from 5- to 6-year olds	12
The learning early childhood education and care institution as an inclusion arena	12
The impact of earthquake anxiety on preschool teachers: coping strategies and educational implications	12
‘How are rainbows made?': profiles of early childhood teachers' beliefs and their associations with responses to young children's causal questions	12
It’s up to you if you want to take part . Supporting young children’s informed choice about research participation with simple visual booklets	11
Educators’ perceptions of Australia’s early childhood education and care quality assurance rating system	11
Children’s critical thinking skills: perceptions of Norwegian early childhood educators	10
The effects of shared book reading on language and literacy development of ESL/EFL learners: a multi-level meta-analysis	9
Pedagogical documentation as a strategy for planning and communicating children’s learning and pedagogical day-to-day life	9
Special Issue on Pedagogical Documentation – Researching a Powerful and Evolving Idea	9
Tensions, assumptions and situated ethics: attuning to the unpredictability of ethics in early childhood research participation	8
Enrichment and safety -the parents of young children constructing early childhood education and care institution in Finland	8
Im/migrant parents’ voices as enabling professional learning communities in early childhood education and care	8

Early childhood educators’ emotional exhaustion and the frequency of educational activities in preschool	8
Using Artificial Intelligence (AI)-interfaced robotic toys in early childhood settings: a case for children’s inquiry literacy	8
Assessing Global and Math-Specific Teacher-Child Interaction Quality in Early Childcare Settings: A Systematic Literature Review of Instruments Used in Research	8
Evaluating popular STEM applications for young children	8
The visibility of ethics within early childhood research; revised standards for our international community of practice	8
Relations between reading skill level in fifth grade and functional language skills at toddler age	7
Correction	7
Relationships between socioecological characteristics and families’ playground use in different seasons in Finland	7
Examining associations among provider-family relationships, provider coping strategies, and family child care providers’ relationships with children	7
Curriculum design and content in Czech pre-primary education: approaches and experiences of student teachers	6
Parental attachment and emotion regulation in children: the mediating role of working memory	6
Improving the quality of adaptive learning support provided by kindergarten teachers in play-based mathematical learning situations	6
The development of early childhood teachers’ sociodramatic and imaginative play skills through a drama-based professional development program	6
Noblesse oblige? Job position and early childhood leadership in China: the moderating role of school type	6
Educators’ perspectives on parental belonging in preschool communities	6
The social language environment – domain: ECEC teachers’ self-reported ratings of strategies in teaching literacy	6
EECERA ethical code for early childhood researchers	6
Transformation in early childhood education: proposing a community-based approach	6
Attitudes towards reading amongst kindergarten and Grade 1 children	6
Understanding preschool teachers’ pedagogical leadership through individual and collective reflection	5
Using teach ECE to observe the quality of online teaching during the pandemic: an exploratory study in a pre-school in Chile	5
« Yeah, I am making new stuff! »: responsivity to and negotiations of agency during digital storytelling in preschool	5
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	5
Bridging early childhood education and inclusive practices in classrooms that serve children with disabilities: a narrative portrait	5
Exploring children’s well-being in daycare: how do children feel all day?	5
Zoom play: Affectively mobilised collective play across Family Day Care settings	5
The effects of teacher-led and teacher-guided interventions on preschool children’s motor competency	5
Educators’ responses to children’s grieving: exploring emotional configurations in flexibly scheduled early childhood education and care	5
Conceptualizing diversity in ECEC policy: implications for the role of diverse preschool in Sweden	5
What if children affected by sleep disorder and aggression could regulate their emotions?	5
Editorial	4
What’s your image of the child?Examining trajectories of prospective ECE teachers’ beliefs during practicum	4
Children save lives: evaluation of a first aid training in Norwegian kindergartens	4
Tracking possible differences between female- and male staff in promoting physical activity towards girls and boys in the outdoor playground of the kindergarten	4
Australian multilingual early childhood educators’ use of languages in early childhood education settings: findings of a qualitative (pilot) study	4
Effect of gender-neutral activities on preschool children’s gender stereotypes	4
The pathways to assent in early childhood research: what do parents of young children want?	4
Practitioner inquiry: troubling certainty	4
A decolonizing approach to early learning: toddlers’ and preschoolers’ engagement with the land and indigenous ways of knowing	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
A Significant Events Approach to Children’s Rights with children under three in early childhood education and care	4
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
Professional development for praxis transformation in early childhood education and care: a systematic review	3
How can children best learn map skills? a step-by-step approach	3
Interprofessional collaboration in ECEC: a review of European countries with different levels of system integration	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
The impact of the ‘accelerated childhood’ culture in the UK's ECEC: practitioners’ and policy makers’ views during a professional development course*	3
‘Tell me the whole story’: moving from narrative comprehension to narrative production skills	3
A visual ethnography of parent-child interactions during ‘story-time’ in Chinese family settings	3

Complexities of men’s engagement in early childhood care and development in Africa	3
Editorial	3
Fraught with frights or full of fun: perspectives of risky play among six-to-eight-year olds	3
Reflections from the higher education classroom: the role of playful pedagogy in the professional formation of early childhood students	3
The effect of home literacy environment on preschool children’s learning dispositions	3
Risk willingness in play: exploring children’s behaviour in a virtual reality playground	3
Editorial	3
Children’s participation when transitioning between early childhood education and care settings: potentials for readjusting institutional logics	3
Vocal fatigue of kindergarten teachers in China and its influential factors: a chain mediating model	3
Cultural heritage in early childhood education: a systematic review	3
ChatGPT, care and the ethical dilemmas entangled with teaching and research in the early years	3
Professional development for ethical practice transformation	3
Exploring parents’ perceptions of preschoolers’ risky outdoor play using a socio-ecological lens	3
Inviting inquiry on pedagogical documentation in Singapore: perspectives of parents and teachers	3
On the way towards integration? From monologic to dialogic encounters in Swedish rural preschools	3
A cultural-historical study of how a conceptual playworld creates conditions for personally meaningful mathematics in the Chinese kindergarten context	3
Documenting towards democratic early education curriculum in the Republic of Croatia	3
Teachers’ interactions with children in micro-level transitions in Norwegian preschools	3
Preschool children’s agency in education for sustainability: the case of Sweden	3
Professional development opportunities and a newly built daycare center: incentives in ECEC teacher job advertisements in Finland	3
The inclusion of children with disabilities in early childhood education: interdisciplinary research and dialogue	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
Children’s bodily positioning in accounts of naptime in early childhood education and care: a Foucauldian perspective	2
Work demands and work resources in ECEC – turnover intentions explored	2
The types of work of early childhood education and care professionals: an interactive perspective	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
Nature of science in early years science teaching	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
Limited representation of disability in early childhood classrooms: data from South Korea	2
Academic rigour and ideology are not incompatible in early childhood research	2
Ecological conditions and interpersonal skills leading to ECE teacher competences in working with immigrant children in Slovenia	2
Leave only footprints: how children communicate a sense of ownership and belonging in an art gallery	2
Preschool children’s discourses on gender during dramatic play from critical perspective	2
How do pre-school teachers in Turkey make sense of emotional and behavioural disorder risk?	2
Living in heaven and buried in the earth? Teaching young children about death	2
Tracing theoretical concepts in student/teacher conversations during a practicum	2
Early Years leadership development during workforce crisis: perspectives of 24 UK training providers	2
The enculturation process in early childhood education and care: a mixed methods study	2
Praxeological action research: a Froebelian approach for professional development, flourishment and wellbeing	2
Newcomer object ownership negotiations when transitioning from home care to early childhood education and care in Finland	2
Making connections with children: children’s rights, ethics and research methods	2
Engineers and engineering through the eyes of preschoolers: a phenomenographic study of children’s drawings	2
‘I tried five times, and the sixth time I managed'. Children’s experiences with pedagogical videos on social and emotional learning	2
Investigation of foreign body aspiration knowledge and first-aid self-efficacy of child development department students	2
Teacher inquiry and learning stories: a site for pedagogical change	2
Pedagogical practices for the infant-toddler’s first day of transition from home care to early childhood education and care	2
Children’s perspectives about belonging in educational settings in five European countries	2
Detection of children at risk of maltreatment: longitudinal understanding of teachers’ concern for children’s home situation in Sweden	2
‘A long way to get here and a long way to go': a case study on changing lunch meal practices in a Norwegian kindergarten	2
The years children spent in early education in relation to their social relations and objects of attention	2
A triangle of curiosity: infants, researchers, and the video camera	2
Do my words convey what children are saying? Researching school life with very young children: dilemmas for ‘authentic listening’	2
Creative research methodology in exploring young children's humor	2
Toward exploring a new path for parenting within a digital environment: an investigation of Korean fathers’ online involvement in parenting	2
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 Norway	1
‘Go away from this galaxy coronavirus’: children’s meanings and feelings of the Covid-19 pandemic through narrated drawings	1
Early childhood educators’ understandings of quality in five countries: similarities and differences to policy	1
Parents’ understandings and practices regarding play and learning	1
Editorial	1
Time to play, time to think: meaningful moments in the forest	1
Creative methods and methodologies in early childhood education and care (ECEC)	1
Observing preschoolers' engagement with a digital book library: insights from children of diverse backgrounds in Türkiye	1
‘The most important thing in first grade is to make friends’	1
You are stuck here, at the office: Chilean ECEC principals’ pedagogical leadership in JUNJI and Integra Foundation	1
Investigation of play skills of children with typical development and language and speech disorders according to demographic variables	1
Professional well-being in professional learning communities of early childhood teachers	1
Digital resources and parental mediation parallelly mediate the impact of SES on early digital literacy among Chinese preschoolers	1
School readiness and pre-primary learning experiences of children of refugee backgrounds in Tanzania: the mediating role of family socio-economic status	1
Observation as a professional tool for early childhood teachers’ inquiry habit of mind : an interpretative phenomenological study	1
The influence of family life on the pedagogical praxis of male teachers in early childhood education and care	1
A place for Miguel: discovering the power of belonging within an inclusive toddler community	1
Teaching under fire: preschool and kindergarten teachers’ personal, professional, and social predictors of stress and well-being in wartime	1
Men in early childhood education and care: on navigating a gendered terrain	1
Importance of children's play: the Croatian experience of future ECEC teachers	1
Young children’s assent and dissent in research: agency, privacy and relationships within ethical research spaces	1
Subcontracted mothering: a discourse on professionalism in childcare in South Korea	1
Editorial	1
The use of information and communication technology in pedagogical documentation: an investigation of early childhood education in China	1

From the Mosaic approach to cultural probes: why research improves when participants can choose	1
Professional passive practice mentoring system in study program ‘Teaching for pre-school education’ in Albanian HEI-s	1
Exploring parental competences in Spanish fathers and mothers of children aged 0–3: relationship with socio-familial and child characteristics	1
Up and Down: Insights from a creative approach to online interactions with very young children	1
Panel of Referees	1
Quality early childhood education for all children?	1
The interrelationship between pre-primary and early primary school teachers’ learning in the professional community and burnout: a person-centered approach	1
Documenting special educational needs in digital systems: professional practice and agentic possibilities	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
Children’s understanding and STEM-related experiences of solar energy and technologies in a smart kindergarten in Norway	1
Becoming a professional: exploring vulnerabilities in an Australian birth-to-three-year-old professional experience	1
Where are you going? Lessons learned from Irish ECEC educators’ intuitive implementation of slow pedagogy during the COVID-19 pandemic	1
Individualized education program development in early childhood education: a disabled children’s childhood studies perspective	1
Any questions? Young children questioning in their early childhood education settings	1
Paving the way for slow pedagogy: leadership lessons from Icelandic preschools	1
Exploring the landscape of mindfulness practice in early childhood education in Ireland	1
Early science education for toddlers (1–3-year-olds) in natural environments – exploring the perspectives of early childhood teachers in Norway	1
Playing outside, thriving inside: exploring the impact of outdoor play frequency on emotional intelligence in children aged 5–6	1
The role of the medium for verbal engagement: shared reading in groups with books and apps in Norwegian ECEC-institutions	1
Children and teachers engaging together with digital technology in early childhood education and care institutions: a literature review	1
Democratic spaces for ECEC teachers’ professional development: the case of the RIECU Network in Spain	1
Mirror, mirror, on the wall! Are all stepparents wicked? Impressions of stepparents’ role in the fairy tales	1
‘Fostering resilience: the impact of supportive organizational culture on mitigating burnout in early childhood educators’	1
Professionals’ Perceptions of the Classroom Assessment Scoring System as a structure for professional community and development	1
The effects of STEM activities on the problem-solving skills of 6-year-old preschool children	1
Choosing to care: examining the role of motivation, practicum experiences, and working conditions on aspiring childcare professionals in Flanders	1
Interacting and communicating with children: an exploratory study about educators’ behavior during a collaborative activity	1
Professionalising ECCE in South Africa is not child’s play! Determining skills gaps and implications for future sector development	1
Protective factors promoting participatory rights for early childhood children in residential care facilities in Harare, Zimbabwe	1
Exploring children’s participation from Froebelian practitioners’ perspectives in Scottish context	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
Examining the intercultural competence of early-childhood teachers	1