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Early Years – An International Research Journal

Editors’ Report to TACTYC AGM, November 2017

Journal output 2017

This year we have produced one special issue (37-1 March: Contemporary and Critical Perspectives on ECE in the United States) and three issues with independently submitted papers. The final issue for 2017 (37-4 December) is already available online and the running order is as follows:

|Volume 37, issue 4, December 2017 |

|Editorial |

|Jan Georgeson |

|Research articles |

|‘Out of the loop’: early childhood educators gaining confidence with unfamiliar policy discourse |

|Anna Kilderry, Andrea Nolan and Caroline Scott |

|The art of ‘smart gaff’: reshaping early childhood caregiver-child interactions in Guyana |

|Michelle Semple-McBean |

|Navigating the risky terrain of children’s working theories |

|Sofie Areljung and Janette Kelly-Ware |

|‘Happy when they arrive, happy when they go home’ – focusing on promoting children’s mental health creates a sense of trust at |

|preschools |

|Katarina Haraldsson, Pernilla Isaksson and Monica Eriksson |

|Early childhood education and care educators supporting parent-child relationships: a systematic literature review |

|Amanda O’Connor, Andrea Nolan, Heidi Bergmeier, Merrilyn Hooley, Craig Olsson, Warren Cann, Janet Williams-Smith and Helen Skouteris |

|What parents say about children’s inequality of opportunities: a study in Mauritius |

|C. Morabito, E. Carosin and M. Vandenbroeck |

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|Reviewers September 2016-September 2017 |

Paper flow and backlog 2017

After two premium years of over 100 submissions by the end of the year, this year we can report 80 submissions on 1st November, with still two months to go. We also have a strong backlog of 36 papers which have been published online. 11 manuscripts have been returned to the authors for revision.

Volume 38, 2018

38-1 March will be a special issue guest edited by Larry Prochner (University of Alberta, Canada) and Helen May (University of Otago, New Zealand) on ‘Lessons and Legacies of Early Childhood History’. 8 of the 9 papers invited for this issue are already in the Scholar One system and are currently under review. One focuses on radical approaches to Early Childhood Education and Care in interwar Poland, with some fascinating information about the schools developed by Janusz Korczak. One provides an account of the travels of Froebelian teachers in India and South Africa in the 1910s and 2010s. Another paper addresses the promotion of 'excellence in infant work' in 1920s Australia. A further paper charts the experiences of New Zealand Kindergarten teachers who were awarded Carnegie Fellowships to study progressive EY practice in the United States in the 1930s. Another considers the historical legacies of Montessori and Steiner in developing current approaches to early childhood education for sustainability in the UK and yet another offers accounts of the perspectives of ‘elite informants’ in Australian policy making on the history of the concept of ‘quality’ in ECEC. As Helen May has noted in our email correspondence: “I think we will have a most interesting and in fact ground breaking edition.”

38-2 June and 38-4 December will be accommodating independently submitted papers which have already been published online.

38-3 September will include a cluster of ‘New Histories’ papers that will extend the geographic territories in the 38-1 issue to countries with much less well-documented histories.

Looking ahead to 2019

For 2019 we have one special issue planned and three issues with independent papers.

39-1 March This first issue of the year will be a special issue on Early Childhood Policies in Low- and Middle-Income Countries, guest edited by Michelle Neuman (Results for Development, Washington, DC, USA) and Lynette Okeng’o (Africa Early Childhood Network, Nairobi, Kenya). There has been a good response to the Call for Papers, and the guest editors are currently processing 23 Abstracts

39-2 June Independent paper issue

39-3 September Independent paper issue

39-4 December Independent paper issue

The editors are discussing plans for a further special issue on ECEC in Latin American countries, probably in early 2020.

Editorial team

Arianna Lazzari from the University of Bologna will be joining the editorial team as from January 2018 and will step into a full editorial role during the second half of the year.

Pamela Oberhuemer, Rod Parker-Rees, Jan Georgeson – journal editors

1st November 2017

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