Educational Innovation and Child Participation in Early Childhood Education

Dear Colleagues,

Early childhood education is an essential stage in children's development. This Special Issue will explore and share the ways in which educational innovation in early childhood education can help inspire new ways of teaching and learning, providing safe, sympathetic, and respectful childcare environments that are committed to children’s rights.

We advocate educational innovation that helps to reimagine education by promoting the participation of children as active agents of situated and experiential learning, enabling them not only to be heard, but also to influence the socio-educational environments of which they are a part.

From this perspective, it is not a question of ‘going to and being at school’, but of ‘being and making a committed school’ that generates alliances and positive influences in the lives of its members, where everyone is taken into consideration.

Child participation is therefore a right, a duty, and a guarantee for educational innovation.

This Special Issue welcomes original research articles, systematic literature reviews, and educational articles that provide insightful and important contributions. Areas of research may include (but are not limited to) the following:

• Experiences of educational innovation in early childhood education.
• Alternative experiences in early childhood education.
• Innovation and improvement in early childhood education through child participation.
• Children as co-researchers.
• Reflections on innovation and child participation: Challenges and frameworks for action.
• The role of adults in promoting and exercising child participation.

Prof. Dr. Ana Castro Zubizarreta
Prof. Dr. Roberto Sanz Ponce
Guest Editors

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