International Journal of Child Care and Education Policy

Call for Papers: Team Concepts in Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC)

With this thematic issue “Team Concepts in ECEC” we plan to take a closer look not only at the composition of teams, but also at established and innovative team approaches in a variety of countries. Understanding how these concepts evolved and discussing the potentials and challenges of their implementation in everyday practice is our main aim.

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Pre-K teachers’ professional identity development at community-based organizations during universal Pre-K expansion in New York City

Authors: Sanae Akaba, Lacey E. Peters, Eva Liang and Sherryl B. Graves

Content type: Research 7 June 2022
Effects of philosophical ethics in early childhood on preschool children's social–emotional competence and theory of mind

Authors: Tugce B. Arda Tuncdemir, Michael D. Burroughs and Ginger Moore

Content type: Research 3 June 2022
Dogs at school: a quantitative analysis of parental perceptions of canine-assisted activities in schools mediated by child anxiety score and use case

Authors: Wendy Irene Fynn and Jessica Runacres

Content type: Research 5 March 2022
Simulating employment and fiscal effects of public investment in high-quality universal childcare in the UK

Authors: Jerome De Henau

Content type: Research 14 February 2022
Preparing early educators as frontline leaders and change agents with a leadership development initiative

Authors: Yujin Lee, Anne Douglass, Songtian Zeng, Amanda Wiehe Lopes and Arazeliz Reyes

Content type: Research 29 January 2022

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Legal Frameworks for Early Childhood Governance in the Philippines

Authors: Marilyn F. Manuel and Euberto B. Gregorio

Content type: Research Paper 20 February 2015
Early Childhood Education and Care in the United States: An Overview of the Current Policy Picture

Authors: Sheila B. Kamerman and Shirley Gatenio-Gabel

Content type: Article 20 February 2015
The importance of emotional competence and self-regulation from birth: a case for the evidence-based emotional cognitive social early learning approach

Authors: Donna K. Housman

Content type: Review 28 November 2017
Qualitative Research in Early Childhood Education and Care Implementation

Authors: Wendy K. Jarvie

Content type: Article 20 February 2015
Early Childhood Education and Relative Policies in China

Authors: Jiaxiong Zhu

Content type: Article 20 February 2015

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Article nominated in the Change the World campaign

The article Longitudinal research and early years policy development in the UK by Edward Melhuish has been nominated groundbreaking research that could help change the world. The paper presents the outcomes of key longitudinal studies that have contributed to substantial policy changes in Early Childhood Education and Care.

Society affiliation

The International Journal of Child Care and Educational Policy is affiliated with the Korea Institute of Child Care and Education and the National Institute for Early Education Research.

The IJCCEP has been accepted in Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI) and is indexed by Scopus

The International Journal of Child Care and Education Policy (IJCCEP), as a scholarly outlet selected and reviewed in ESCI, has been identified as important to key opinion leaders, funders, and evaluators worldwide. ESCI allows researchers to discover new areas of research in evolving disciplines, as well as relevant interdisciplinary scholarly content across rapidly changing research fields. All articles published in this journal are discoverable via the Web of Science with full citation counts, author information and other enrichment.

Thematic Series

Longitudinal studies in ECEC – challenges of translating research results into policy actions
Edited by Bernhard Kalicki, Namhee Woo and W. Steven Barnett

This collection highlights the potential of results obtained from longitudinal studies to inform about the impact of early child education and care on learning and development, and encourages their use for evidence based policy making.

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Aims and scope

This journal disseminates research and analysis regarding major issues of child care and education policy relating to young children and their families to a broad international readership, including policymakers, researchers, and practitioners. As a peer reviewed journal, it invites submission of articles concerning policy reforms, empirical research on early childhood education and care (ECEC), policy analyses and comparisons, and more.

This journal is a joint publication by Korea Institute of Child Care and Education (KICCE) and the National Institute for Early Education Research (NIEER) since May 2013.

The publication costs for International Journal of Child Care and Education Policy are covered by Korea Institute of Child Care and Education, so authors do not need to pay an article-processing charge.

It publishes original and review papers, technical reports, case studies, conference reports, and government reports, including but not limited to the following fields:

• Assessment and evaluation of ECEC policy and programs
• ECEC curriculum and pedagogy
• Workforce qualifications and development of ECEC staff
• Financing ECEC services
• Regulations and standards of ECEC
• Family and community engagement
• Quality issues in ECEC
• Integration of education and care in ECEC
• Policy on diversity and social inclusion in ECEC
• International comparisons of ECEC policy

Featured article: Public or private? Determinants of parents’ preschool choice in India

Nowadays children aged between 3 and 6 years are mostly attending one of the two major forms of preschool viz. public and private preschools in India. Even though public preschools are free of any financial cost to the parents, their preference is more towards private preschools. Based on a primary sample of 1369 children from 1369 households, this study explores the determinants of parents’ preschool choices between public and private.

International Journal of Child Care and Education Policy

Call for Papers: Team Concepts in Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC)

Benefits of publishing in IJCCEP

Articles

Pre-K teachers’ professional identity development at community-based organizations during universal Pre-K expansion in New York City

Effects of philosophical ethics in early childhood on preschool children's social–emotional competence and theory of mind

Dogs at school: a quantitative analysis of parental perceptions of canine-assisted activities in schools mediated by child anxiety score and use case

Simulating employment and fiscal effects of public investment in high-quality universal childcare in the UK

Preparing early educators as frontline leaders and change agents with a leadership development initiative

Legal Frameworks for Early Childhood Governance in the Philippines

Early Childhood Education and Care in the United States: An Overview of the Current Policy Picture

The importance of emotional competence and self-regulation from birth: a case for the evidence-based emotional cognitive social early learning approach

Qualitative Research in Early Childhood Education and Care Implementation

Early Childhood Education and Relative Policies in China

Article nominated in the Change the World campaign

Society affiliation

The IJCCEP has been accepted in Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI) and is indexed by Scopus

Thematic Series

Aims and scope

Featured article: Public or private? Determinants of parents’ preschool choice in India

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