Collections and calls for papers

Enhancing early learning: Quality interactions with families and children

Evidence has shown that in Early Childhood Education (ECEC) settings, quality interactions with children and families make a difference to children’s outcomes, particularly for children and families experien...

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Open

Submission deadline

30 October 2025

Transitions in Early Childhood Education: Current Contexts, Policies and Emerging Ideas

Designing transitions in early childhood education has been a central issue in the field of education for more than three decades (Bensel, 1992; Dunlop & Fabian, 2003; Ahnert et al., 2013). Researchers have ...

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Open

Submission deadline

31 July 2025

Scholarly Writing

Call for Papers Given the wide-ranging implications of publication for teacher/scholar/researchers, this Special Issue is intended to support readers in achieving greater success with publishing their work. ...

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Closed

Promoting Effective Practice in the Field of Early Childhood Education

Call for Papers The premise of this Special Issue of Early Childhood Education Journal is that high-quality practical manuscripts represent the best of both worlds: the scientific rigor of research and evide...

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Closed

Joyful and Meaningful Writing: Developing Creativity, Critical Thinking, and Confidence with Young Children

Children learn early in life how to communicate through writing. They represent ideas through scribbling, drawing, and making letter-like forms (Gentry, 1982; 2000). Early childhood teachers and families hav...

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Closed

Humane Education

Guest Editors: Mary Renck Jalongo, Laura Bruneau, Amy Johnson, Tunde Szecsi

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Closed

Picturebooks and Young Children: Potential, Power, and Practices

Picturebooks hold a special pride of place in the learning, literacy, and lives of young children. While all forms of children’s literature have the potential to impact young readers, picturebooks offer a mu...

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Closed

Extending an Ethic of Care across Pedagogy, Practice, and Action

Noddings (2005) and her groundbreaking philosophical work on the “ethic of care” emphasizes a focus on caring as the compass in the teaching profession and an emphasis on “recognition of and longing for rela...

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Closed

SDG 4 Quality Education Collection

Springer is calling for articles to our new Collection on Education for Sustainable Development and Global Citizenship, in support of the UN Sustainable Development Goal: SDG 4 which aims to ensure inclusive...

Submission status

Open

Submission deadline

01 January 2030