Language and Literacy Education in the Early Years: Practices and Principles for Dynamic and Diverse Contexts, 2nd Edition
A special issue of Education Sciences (ISSN 2227-7102).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (28 February 2026) | Viewed by 1014
Special Issue Editor
Interests: language and literacy education; teacher education; educational technologies and early language and literacy
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
This Special Issue of Education Sciences will focus on early childhood language and literacy education principles and practices that address the needs of children and communities in diverse and dynamic contexts, with an emphasis on ensuring high-quality, inclusive literacy learning opportunities for all children. This Special Issue aims to further knowledge and debate around the current opportunities, challenges and tensions that arise in the field of early childhood literacy education and how they might be navigated. Empirical research papers are particularly welcomed, but high-quality conceptual papers will also be considered.
Topics of interest for this Special Interest include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Responsive and personalised learning in early childhood language and literacy education;
- Learning ecologies for inclusive and equitable literacy learning in the early years;
- Threats to inclusive and equitable literacy learning in the early years;
- Harnessing the funds of knowledge and funds of identity that young children bring to literacy learning;
- Inclusive early literacy learning in a technology rich world;
- Literacy education for children in crisis and conflict zones;
- Critical literacies in the early years.
Dr. Grace Oakley
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- early literacy
- early reading
- early writing
- digital literacies in the early years
- responsive literacy teaching in the early years
- equity in literacy learning
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