About the Journal

Early Education is an open access journal dedicated to advancing the field of early years education in Aotearoa New Zealand and beyond by sharing valuable and diverse ideas, including research insights and teachers’ perspectives.

The journal provides a forum for teachers and researchers to engage in discussions about practice, pedagogy and policy, with an emphasis on teaching practice. The focus on the teaching practice is to share information that is relevant, timely, and supportive of good practice. The journal has also included a topical focus on early childhood policy and politics across time, which makes the journal a useful repository of historical accounts of early years education.

To ensure publications are relevant and meaningful to a practitioner audience, the articles for the journal are typically quite short in length, are written in accessible language and do not provide in-depth discussions of research methods.

Peer-reviewed and editor-reviewed articles are published, so that teachers and emerging researchers are supported to share ideas stemming from both research and practice.

Where possible, the journal avoids publishing articles specifically on infant and toddler education, which are better located in the journal First Years Ngā Tau Tuatahi, as the editors have wanted to avoid competition between the two locally published journals.

Learn more about publishing with Early Education in the the For Authors Section of the website.