New Article from EECERJ: Supporting educator agency in decisions about digital technologies: a pedagogical decision-making matrix for early childhood education by Jubilee Smith buff.ly/hnwJgyR #EECERA #EECERAJ #EarlyChildhood #EarlyEducation
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EECERA is an independent, self-governing, international association which promotes and disseminates multi-disciplinary research on early childhood and its applications to policy and practice. 2025 Conference - BRATISLAVA.
New Article from EECERJ: Exploring teachers’ understandings of implementing child participation in early childhood education in Spain by Ana Castro-Zubizarreta & Roberto Sanz-Ponce buff.ly/hnwJgyR #EECERA #EECERAJ #EarlyChildhood #EarlyEducation
New Article from EECERJ: Exploring undergraduate early childhood studies students’ beliefs about mathematics by Leanne Gray, Jennifer Sau & Taylor Challiss buff.ly/hnwJgyR #EECERA #EECERAJ #EarlyChildhood #EarlyEducation
New Article from EECERJ: Learning democracy in early education: aesthetic and embodied pedagogies in teachers’ professional learning by Cláudia Neves, Monika Pazur, Juliana Gazzinelli, Ana Patrícia Almeida, Marta Abelha & Pedro Abrantes buff.ly/hnwJgyR #EECERA #EECERAJ #EarlyChildhood
New Article from EECERJ: Pedagogical conditions as complex adaptive systems: a conceptual framework for early English education in wartime Ukraine by Andriy Vyshnevskyi & Tetyana Pantyuk buff.ly/hnwJgyR #EECERA #EECERAJ #EarlyChildhood #EarlyEducation
New Article from EECERJ: Children’s participation rights as lived capabilities: experiences from early childhood education and care in Wales by Lauren Henderson, Jacky Tyrie & Gisselle Tur Porres buff.ly/hnwJgyR #EECERA #EECERAJ #EarlyChildhood #EarlyEducation
New Article from EECERJ: A critical interpretive review of digital citizenship in early childhood: a call for care and responsibility by Hasina Banu Ebrahim & Muideen Oladeji Salami buff.ly/hnwJgyR #EECERA #EECERAJ #EarlyChildhood #EarlyEducation
New Article from EECERJ: Agency, participation and democracy in child care: an ethnographic case study of babies’ everyday praxis by Mariana Estrela & Ana França Kot-Kotecki buff.ly/hnwJgyR #EECERA #EECERAJ #EarlyChildhood #EarlyEducation
New Article from EECERJ: Reframing biased AI-generated imagery: children as democratic co-interpreters in early childhood education by Eloise Thomson buff.ly/hnwJgyR #EECERA #EECERAJ #EarlyChildhood #EarlyEducation
New EECERJ Article: Early childhood teachers’ reported uses of play and enacted pedagogical roles in supporting learning, development, and social interaction across seven countries. Mine Göl-Güven, Ruslan Slutsky, Konstantina Rentzou, Jesús Paz-Albo, Maire Tuul & Grethe Kragh-Müller buff.ly/hnwJgyR
New Article from EECERJ: ‘I’m peppa pig’: young children’s self-initiated song-singing with a digital device as multi-modal expressive practices by Rosie Walton & Susan Young buff.ly/hnwJgyR #EECERA #EECERAJ #EarlyChildhood #EarlyEducation
New Article from EECERJ: Agentic and quasi-agentic AI technologies in early childhood education and care: A scoping review by Zacharias Andreadakis, Georgia Dimopoulou & Georgia Gessiou buff.ly/0X5nBFQ #EECERA #EECERAJ #EarlyChildhood #EarlyEducation
New Article from EECERJ: The drivers of turnover intentions in early childhood education: the role of organisational factors and job demands–resources profiles by Eerika Länsmans, Maiju Paananen & Petri Nokelainen buff.ly/B8z4lL3 #EECERAJ #EarlyChildhood #EarlyEducation
Praxis Series books launch: Prof Lesley Wood on Transforming Early Childhood Education; Elizabeth Carruthers, Chrystalla Papademetri and Oliver Theil explored Play and Mathematics in Early Years; Sally Cave introduced the Froebel Partnerships book Being and Becoming. buff.ly/zoC4zUr #EECERA2026
Maelis Karlsson Lohmander bringing the 34th #EECERA Conference to a close in Madeira ☺️ #EECERA2026. Maelis was Chair of our 4th conference back in 1994!
EECERA trustee Irene Gunning shares the results of the Habermass award; our heartfelt congratulations go to our own dear Professor Tony Bertram on his Honorary Lifetime Achievement award 🥳 #EECERA2026
Day 3 at #EECERA2026, and Julia Formosinho is thinking with us today about joint leaning, professional development and the development of democracy. Children have the right to have a teacher who integrates, through their pedagogy, theory, practice and ethics.
Chris Pascal and Routledge Senior Editor Alison Foyle kick off our Praxis book launch at #EECERA2026 #EECERA #BookLaunch #Praxis #Routlege
Poster Session 2 in action, lots of interest and connection happening between presenters and delegates at #EECERA2026
CREC MA Tutor Debi Keyte-Hartland presenting her research about cultivating teacher agency at #EECERA2026
A little tour of our first poster session at #EECERA2026 in Madeira; so much passion, insight and curiosity in evidence. #EECERA
Poster session A is underway at #EECERA2026; thank you so much to all the wonderful poster presenters! #EECERA
Lunch and networking before the first symposium begins at #EECERA2026. 😁
Reema Patel begins our second #EECERA2026 keynote and reminds us that we are at risk of overlooking the core question - how can the digital world serve and enhance children’s rights, agency, life chances and outcomes? She invites us to discover more about participatory actions here: buff.ly/U39ZFgZ
Prof Susan Edwards closes her optimistic keynote and invites delegates to: Theorise technology and play Make the invisible tangible Listen to many languages Recognise rights and competences in situ Design and redesign for democratisation #EECERA2026
A full house for Prof. Susan Edwards as she presents the first keynote speech of #EECERA2026, providing an overview of the complexities we face in a post-digital era. #EECERA #EarlyChildhood #EarlyEducation
