Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood

The micropolitics of posthuman early years leadership assemblages: Exploring more-than-human relationality

Towards a holistic conceptualisation of early childhood educators’ work-related well-being

Has something changed? Leaders’, practitioners’ and parents’ interpretations after renewed early childhood education and care legislation in Finnish private centres

Moving from imitation to innovation: Exploring a Chinese model of early childhood curriculum leadership

Professional learning communities: Enhancing collaborative leadership in Singapore early childhood settings

How a template for documentation in Swedish preschool systematic quality work produces qualities

Leadership in early childhood education: The case for pedagogical praxis

The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development’s International Early Learning Study: What’s going on

Children’s literature in China: Revisiting ideologies of childhood and agency

Governing ‘disadvantage’ through readiness: A Foucauldian policy genealogy of funded nursery places for two-year-olds:

Understanding the contexts of leadership debates

Social and Emotional Learning and Early Childhood Education: Redundant terms?

A feminist new materialist experiment: Exploring what else gets produced through encounters with children’s news media

What early childhood leadership for what kind of world?

Ghosts of the material world in early childhood education: Furniture matters

Making a bricolage: An immanent process of experimentation:

Towards a re-conceptualisation of risk in early childhood education:

Navigating the policy directive of child autonomy in universal pre-kindergarten practice

“Our quality is a little bit different”: How family childcare providers who participate in a Quality Rating and Improvement System and receive childcare subsidy define quality:

Revisiting diversity and difference in early childhood through children’s news media

School readiness, governance and early years ability grouping:

Children’s media as a conduit for “unbiased” news: Critical reflections on the coverage of Trump’s presidential campaign

Constructions of knowledge and childhood: Addressing current affairs with children with a focus on parents’ practices and children’s news media

“The edTPA took away from my student teaching experience”: The impact of the edTPA on student teaching experiences

Myrna’s Children’s Village: Reflections on a dynamic early childhood laboratory school community in southern New Mexico

Pookey, poory, power: An agentic powerformance

Musical pathfinders of the kindergarten

The challenges of using one’s body as a reference: “Is it higher than my sitting height?”:

Becoming clowns: How do digital technologies contribute to young children’s play?:

‘We are all friends’: Disrupting friendship play discourses in inclusive early childhood education

The elementary school library: Tensions between access and censorship

In the interest of the public good: Texas pre-kindergarten compulsory law

Incredible years for whom? Governing early years parenting as a site of colonisation in Aotearoa New Zealand:

“Go NZ YAS!!”: Children’s news media texts as curriculum resources in Aotearoa New Zealand

Making up teachers: Pre-kindergarten policy and teachers’ lived experiences:

Questioning democratic notions of governance: A case study examining how a kindergarten teacher and her students give voice to and enact a neoliberal framing of schooling

Lingering in an attitude of research: The critical potential of quotidien practices in early childhood education:

LEGO intermezzo: Exploring territories of playfulness in kindergarten:

Editorial

What the mathematics in the puzzles and handicrafts in 1920s Danish children’s magazines tells us about childhoods