Reminder: JCP Call for Papers Extended to September 30, 2025

Special edition of the JCP - submission deadline Sept. 30, 2025

Theme: Curriculum inquiry, pedagogical documentation, and unconventional multimedia works

This call extends our issue from 2023. In this newer issue, the Journal of Childhoods and Pedagogies invites educators, researchers, and scholars to submit innovative works exploring pedagogical narrations and multimedia documentation in early childhood education. This special issue seeks contributions that stretch traditional academic boundaries, by considering storytelling, digital media, and artistic representations, just to name a few possible formats, to touch upon undiscovered pedagogical potentialities, along with pedagogical narrations as in-process curriculum-making.

The practice of pedagogical documentation is much more than making children's learning visible. Instead, it should be understood as a way of giving value to pedagogical work. According to Malaguzzi (2012), education is about taking positions on ethical and pedagogical values. Thus, what kinds of meanings we make through pedagogical documentation matters (Lenz Taguchi, 2010). In other words, working with pedagogical documentation leaves a visible manifesto offering the possibility to discuss and engage in dialogue around the pedagogical work and disposition, generating questions, meanings, curiosity, and knowledge. In this regard, Lenz Taguchi (2010) argues that pedagogical documentation is an active agent in generating discursive knowledge and part of the process of constructing meaning in pedagogical practice, "it becomes what it actively does and performs" in relation to the curriculum-making process (p. 64). Pedagogical documentation takes the shape of the curriculum inquiry. It becomes a driving force in the curriculum-making process, opening possibilities for approaching curriculum as becoming and living.

Therefore, in this new issue of the Journal of Childhoods and Pedagogies, we invite examples of pedagogical documentation that regard the curriculum inquiry and pedagogical documentation as living and ongoing processes that perceive: educators/researchers engaging in a collaborative process of creating knowledge and meanings with children; pedagogical documentation as the process of curriculum making with children, that generates ideas, concepts, stories, and questions and/or is concerned with onto-epistemology; work that attends to how ideas, knowledge, understandings are created and constructed; pedagogical documentation as a way of knowing, re-knowing, re-cognizing the worlds, and a way of challenging and disrupting the taken for granted status quo. 

Submission Requirements for Pedagogical Narrations

Submission format: PowerPoint slides with a title page containing the title, author’s name, and affiliation; the title page may contain photographs that represent the work. The pedagogical documentation should have a table of contents and a reference list. Format for letter-size paper, landscape orientation (not widescreen).  

Length: maximum 60 slides (without title page and references). 

Photo consent forms from families, childcare centres and educators must be submitted with the work. 

Word count: not specified, however, authors should be mindful of the readability of their pedagogical documentation (slides should not be overwhelmed with text).

Text format: font of choice, size 12-14, 1.5 space. 16 font for minor headings, 24 font for major headings or title pages. Use a standard readable font.

NOTE: if you have a creative idea outside of the traditional PPT format, please email the editors. We are also welcoming new perspectives and formats.

Photo requirements 

Images should be saved at a maximum 150 dpi and should not be larger than 1.5 MB. Please adjust the size/compress the individual images before adding them to your PowerPoint. If the authors are using photographs of other artists, permissions are needed. If the authors are using a copyright-free photo, they need to add the source webpage to the photo credit.

The total size of your submission should not exceed 700 MB. 

 

Submission Requirements for Alternative Multimedia Processes in ECCE.

As the vision of the Journal of Childhoods and Pedagogies states, we are welcoming various submission formats: text format, collage, video, interactive infographics, podcasts, conference presentations, dramatized research narratives, photo essays visual journals, pedagogical music compositions, lectures, soundscapes, poster presentations, slide decks, multimedia storytelling.

 

Please submit your work as a PDF document with clear images and fonts that are readable. If you are submitting video and multimedia formats, please make sure that they contain text that introduces and describes your submission.

Sincerely, 

Guest Editors: Dr. Bo Sun Kim and Dr. Annabella Cant

Capilano University