This paper addresses the challenges and difficulties faced by children experiencing the primary to secondary school transition, and the strategies they find useful in alleviating these concerns. (pdf)

Distributed leadership is currently the most studied leadership model in education. This study posits that there is not a single best model or blueprint for distributed leadership, but that schools should foster manifestations of distributed leadership to support professional development and school improvement.

This article presents findings from a doctoral study of families' reflections on their educational transitions leading to school deregistration and undertaking of home education. 

Our research suggests that the principles of play, openness and togetherness within drama teaching have the potential to positively contribute to Autistic pupils' experiences of self-esteem, happiness and friendship. (pdf)

In international comparisons, the Swedish heritage-language education (HLE) system is often described as being at the forefront of HLE in Europe. Following recent right-wing shifts in national politics, HLE has now come under threat. This article investigates the current state of HLE in Sweden, focussing on Arabic, through a survey of the literature, statistics on…

This paper shares reflections and stories from a collaborative design process between the Lifelong Kindergarten group at the MIT Media Lab and a global network of community-based educators to develop a creative coding app called OctoStudio, which supports children and families to create and share interactive projects on mobile devices. (pdf)

 The research objective of this paper is to identify the challenges and opportunities when AI intertwines with instruction and examine how this hybrid teaching intelligence is being perceived by the students. (pdf)

With increasing interest in computer-assisted education, AI-integrated systems become highly applicable with their ability to adapt based on user interactions. In this context, this paper focuses on understanding and analysing first-year undergraduate student responses to an intelligent educational system that applies multi-agent reinforcement learning as an AI tutor. (pdf)

This paper presents a multidimensional view of AI'srole in education, emphasising the intricate interplayamong AI, analytics and human learning processes. (pdf)

Dialogic reading is a practical activity for promoting language skills in early childhood. Based on this premise, the current study compares the impact of face-to-face dialogic reading (with and without a face mask) and reading via screen in enhancing preschool children's story comprehension and vocabulary acquisition. (pdf)

This study reports a new domain-specific measure of parental self-efficacy for maths (and reading skills) with 3–4-year-olds. 65 families in the UK were surveyed, and a sub-sample of 40 families also completed a remote child assessment session. (pdf)

Barnehagelærerutdanningen er en profesjonsutdanning der det legges stor vekt på praksis. Denne skal bidra til kontinuitet og progresjon i studiet, og til å skape sammenheng mellom teoretisk og praktisk kompetanse. Likevel mener nyutdannede barnehagelærere at gapet mellom utdanningen og barnehagehverdagen er stort. (pdf)