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Book Review: Tools of the Mind. The Vygotskian Approach to Early Childhood Education by Elena Bodrova and Deborah Leong 书评：心灵的工具。伊莲娜-博德罗娃和德博拉-梁著的《维果茨基幼儿教育方法

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Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood Pub Date : 2024-09-05 DOI: 10.1177/14639491241281114

Luh Tu Selpi Wahyuni, Ida Bagus Putu Arnyana, I Made Candiasa, I Gede Margunayasa

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Storying hopeful resistances to datafication: Cracks, spacetimematterings and figurations of agency within the more-than-human ecologies of early childhood education and care 讲述对数据化的充满希望的抵抗：幼儿教育和保育的非人类生态中的裂缝、时空物质和机构形象

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Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood Pub Date : 2024-08-28 DOI: 10.1177/14639491241267947

Jo Albin-Clark, Nathan Archer, Liz Chesworth

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Understanding the caring professional dispositions of the early childhood education teacher assistants in Chile 了解智利幼儿教育助教的关爱专业态度

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Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood Pub Date : 2024-08-27 DOI: 10.1177/14639491241273928

Felipe Godoy, Iris Duhn, Gloria Quiñones

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Doppelganger as method: A framework for examining datafication 作为方法的二重身：数据化研究框架

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Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood Pub Date : 2024-08-21 DOI: 10.1177/14639491241273927

Mandy Pierlejewski

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Understanding datafication in Swedish ECEC through three evaluation imaginaries 通过三种评估想象理解瑞典幼儿保育和教育中心的数据化

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Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood Pub Date : 2024-08-16 DOI: 10.1177/14639491241273923

Malin Benerdal, Magnus Larsson

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When public preschool teachers’ classroom time is left behind 当公立幼儿园教师的课堂时间被抛在脑后时

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Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood Pub Date : 2024-08-13 DOI: 10.1177/14639491241266331

Melissa Sherfinski, Hilary Woodrum

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Insights for the OECD's baby PISA from Mexico's large-scale assessment of pre-schoolers 墨西哥对学龄前儿童的大规模评估对经合组织婴儿国际学生评估项目的启示

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Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood Pub Date : 2024-08-09 DOI: 10.1177/14639491241267952

Israel Moreno-Salto, Susan L. Robertson

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Embodied with data: Early childhood education and care centre director's stories about living with datafication 数据化：幼儿教育和保育中心主任与数据化共存的故事

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Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood Pub Date : 2024-08-09 DOI: 10.1177/14639491241266317

Hanna Toivonen

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The economics of human development: ‘Investing in children’ or ‘children as an investment’? And why it matters 人类发展经济学："投资儿童 "还是 "儿童投资"？为什么这很重要

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Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood Pub Date : 2024-08-09 DOI: 10.1177/14639491241268126

Liliana Fernandes

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The organisation for economic co-operation and development's international early learning and child well-being study: Here we go again! 经济合作与发展组织的国际早期学习和儿童福利研究：我们又来了！

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Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood Pub Date : 2024-08-02 DOI: 10.1177/14639491241266320

Peter Moss, Mathias Urban

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