Teacher Professional Development and Teaching Practices in Early Childhood Education

This Reprint, titled “Teacher Professional Development and Teaching Practices in Early Childhood Education: An International Landscape”, presents a collection of international research originally published in a Special Issue of Education Sciences. The Issue brings together research from diverse inte...

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description This Reprint, titled “Teacher Professional Development and Teaching Practices in Early Childhood Education: An International Landscape”, presents a collection of international research originally published in a Special Issue of Education Sciences. The Issue brings together research from diverse international contexts, investigating Teacher Professional Development (TPD) approaches, pedagogical innovations, and structural challenges in Early Childhood Education (ECE). The featured articles offer a direct response to the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization’s (UNESCO) call for establishing a new social contract for education and reimaging our future together, which demands a fundamental and systemic shift in TPD. The new social contact requires moving beyond traditional approaches defined by rigid academic standards and compliance, toward systems prioritizing equity, sustainability, holistic well-being, and collective professional agency. In this publication, we identify five dimensions where this reimagining can occur: (1) reorienting TPD for sustainability and teacher agency; (2) pedagogical innovation (e.g., integrating arts, play, and digital tools); (3) building teachers’ competencies for the future (such as relational competence); (4) ensuring equity and inclusion (e.g., linguistic responsiveness); and (5) exploring and defining core teaching practices.
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spelling doab-20.500.12854ir-1752392026-04-16T19:45:09Z Teacher Professional Development and Teaching Practices in Early Childhood Education Karim, Shahid Wu, Xuanyi Eliza Bautista, Alfredo Teacher professional development Teacher education Early childhood education Pedagogical practices thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JN Education This Reprint, titled “Teacher Professional Development and Teaching Practices in Early Childhood Education: An International Landscape”, presents a collection of international research originally published in a Special Issue of Education Sciences. The Issue brings together research from diverse international contexts, investigating Teacher Professional Development (TPD) approaches, pedagogical innovations, and structural challenges in Early Childhood Education (ECE). The featured articles offer a direct response to the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization’s (UNESCO) call for establishing a new social contract for education and reimaging our future together, which demands a fundamental and systemic shift in TPD. The new social contact requires moving beyond traditional approaches defined by rigid academic standards and compliance, toward systems prioritizing equity, sustainability, holistic well-being, and collective professional agency. In this publication, we identify five dimensions where this reimagining can occur: (1) reorienting TPD for sustainability and teacher agency; (2) pedagogical innovation (e.g., integrating arts, play, and digital tools); (3) building teachers’ competencies for the future (such as relational competence); (4) ensuring equity and inclusion (e.g., linguistic responsiveness); and (5) exploring and defining core teaching practices. 2026-04-16T19:45:01Z 2026-04-16T19:45:01Z 2026 book ONIX_20260416T142754_9783725862542_44 9783725862542 9783725862559 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/175239 eng application/octet-stream Attribution 4.0 International https://mdpi.com/books/ https://mdpi.com/books/pdfview/book/12151 MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 10.3390/books978-3-7258-6255-9 10.3390/books978-3-7258-6255-9 46cabcaa-dd94-4bfe-87b4-55023c1b36d0 9783725862542 9783725862559 262 CH open access
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Early childhood education
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Teacher Professional Development and Teaching Practices in Early Childhood Education
title Teacher Professional Development and Teaching Practices in Early Childhood Education
title_full Teacher Professional Development and Teaching Practices in Early Childhood Education
title_fullStr Teacher Professional Development and Teaching Practices in Early Childhood Education
title_full_unstemmed Teacher Professional Development and Teaching Practices in Early Childhood Education
title_short Teacher Professional Development and Teaching Practices in Early Childhood Education
title_sort teacher professional development and teaching practices in early childhood education
topic Teacher professional development
Teacher education
Early childhood education
Pedagogical practices
thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History
thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JN Education
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Early childhood education
Pedagogical practices
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