Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood, Volume 25, Issue 4, Page 460-472, December 2024.
While much has been written about how to implement digital tools for learning and play in early childhood education and care, using a sociomaterial perspective this article seeks to explore what types of activities can be the outcome of appropriating ...

Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood, Volume 25, Issue 4, Page 503-511, December 2024.
Our team was awarded a grant by a private organization in partnership with a local research network to examine disparities in the special education referrals and services provided to young children in New York City (NYC). Our convergent mixed-methods ...

Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood, Volume 25, Issue 4, Page 429-444, December 2024.
Early childhood assessment in Australia is guided by Australia's Early Years Learning Framework and a ‘storied’ approach. This article argues that Australia's policy and practice discourses of assessment in early childhood education lack clarity. The ...

Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood, Volume 25, Issue 4, Page 488-502, December 2024.
Australia lags behind other linguistic and culturally diverse countries in policy direction and approaches to early multilingual education, despite well-established research documenting the intellectual, linguistic, sociocultural, familial and economic ...

Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood, Volume 25, Issue 4, Page 445-459, December 2024.
In this article, the authors illustrate some of the challenges and dilemmas that Norwegian early childhood education and care teachers experienced when completing a global screening tool (UPSI-5: Universal Psychosocial Indicator for 5 Year Old Boys and ...

Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood, Volume 25, Issue 4, Page 397-412, December 2024.
At a time when national discourse in the USA centers the need for professionalization, regulation, and surveillance, this article emphasizes the ways in which neoliberal logics harm those working in early childhood education in the USA. While stakeholders ...

Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood, Volume 25, Issue 4, Page 383-396, December 2024.
This article focuses on the methodological experiences that emerged from a study investigating how teachers valued their daily encounters with children in early childhood education. Early childhood teachers often balance the demands of documentation with ...

Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood, Volume 25, Issue 4, Page 473-487, December 2024.
This article focuses on self-identified Spanish-speaking early childhood educators’ experiences with and views of bilingualism as they learned about translanguaging—a dynamic, liberatory, and culturally and linguistically sustaining theory and practice of ...

Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood, Volume 25, Issue 4, Page 413-428, December 2024.
The purpose of this qualitative research study is to portray the complex language practices of multilingual children when learning mathematics. To do so, I draw on data collected as part of a three-year research study that was designed to understand the ...

Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood, Volume 25, Issue 4, Page 512-514, December 2024.

Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood, Volume 25, Issue 4, Page 515-518, December 2024.

Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood, Volume 25, Issue 4, Page 381-382, December 2024.

Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood, Ahead of Print.
This article details a two-year small pilot project investigating possibilities for enacting slow scholarship reading practices with first-year undergraduate early childhood studies students. We follow the emerging push to think with “slow” practices as ...

Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood, Ahead of Print.
Dominant narratives of teacher emotion in early care and education rely on historical discourses of white femininity and white maternalism to position early childhood teachers as naturally adept and selfless caretakers of young children. Missing from ...

Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood, Ahead of Print.
In early childhood education there has long been a focus on “professionalizing the field.” While professionalization initiatives can be well meaning, they can have unintended consequences that exacerbate already existing systemic inequities present in the ...

Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood, Ahead of Print.
Focusing on two micro-moments between non-human animals and young human children in a Norwegian farm kindergarten, this article contributes to knowledge about pedagogical work with multi-species meetings. The micro-moments from a field study are discussed ...

Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood, Ahead of Print.
Traditional Human Capital Theory (HCT) views ‘children as an investment’ and is concerned with how children can be turned into productive members of society. The Economics of Human Development (EHD) grew out of the HCT but positions itself closer to the ...

Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood, Ahead of Print.
This qualitative research study explores how US preschool teachers experience time as they grapple with linear “time for learning” policy initiatives. “Time for learning” positions children's learning as a function of the time children are engaged with ...

Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood, Ahead of Print.
Despite their crucial global importance in the daily work within classrooms, teacher assistants are barely addressed in early childhood education (ECE) teaching policy and research. In this context, little is known about features of their role – more ...

Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood, Ahead of Print.
While much research attention has focused on young children's social-emotional (SE) competencies, an increasing body of evidence points to the importance of educators’ SE skills. Indeed, scholars have suggested that such skills support educators’ ...