International Journal of Elementary Education

Special Issue

Constructions of ‘Quality Provision’ in Early Childhood Education and Care

  • Submission Deadline: Sep. 10, 2020
  • Status: Submission Closed
  • Lead Guest Editor: Karen Boardman
About This Special Issue
Quality provision is a phenomenon that is both confused and confusing for the ECEC workforce internationally. Curriculum policy, workforce reform, ‘governance’, compliance and perceptions of neoliberal ‘top-down’ accountability is shaping provision and pedagogy for very young children, often against the flow of the professional workforce and their autonomy.
This special issue will draw on a variety of contemporary research projects which demonstrate how the policy discourse of assessment, accountability and ‘professionalism’ influences pedagogy and consequently impacts on the quality of provision for very young children.
Aims and Scope:
  1. Quality Constructs
  2. Assessment
  3. Accountability
  4. School Readiness
  5. Documentation
  6. Agency
Lead Guest Editor
  • Karen Boardman

    Department of Early Years Education, Edge Hill University, Liverpool, United Kingdom

Guest Editors
  • Julie Sealy

    Department of Early Years Education, Edge Hill University, Liverpool, United Kingdom

  • Jo Albin-Clark

    Department of Early Years Education, Edge Hill University, Liverpool, United Kingdom

  • Charmaine Bonello

    Department of the Curriculum Lifelong Learning and Employability, Ministry for Education and Employment, Floriana, Malta

  • Jools Page

    School of Education, University of Brighton, Brighton, United Kingdom

  • Alicia Blanco-Bayo

    Department of Early Years Education, Edge Hill University, Liverpool, United Kingdom

  • Rachael Levy

    Department of Learning and Education, UCL Institute of Education, London, United Kingdom

  • Sukran Ucus

    Department of Elementary Education, Faculty of Education, Ahi Evran University, Kirsehir, Turkey