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About RECE

Reconceptualizing Early Childhood Education (RECE) is dedicated to facilitating exchanges about work that challenges mainstream ideas regarding how young children learn and grow. In theory and in practice, RECE members question universal assumptions that mask the realities of local contexts and conditions.
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2026 RECE CONFERENCE

The 32nd Annual RECE Conference will be held 20-24 November 2026 in Ōtepoti Dunedin. 

The Call for Proposals and more information will be shared in early 2026.

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Call for Papers - Special Issue: International Critical Childhood Policy Studies Journal

Early Years Policy and Activism: Optimism in Im/possible Times

The International Critical Childhood Policy Studies Journal is pleased to announce a call for proposals for a special issue seeking to share stories of engaged scholarship and activism in early years care and education. 

350-word abstracts are due on October 31, 2025.  
For more information, please see the Call for Submissions. 

Published Special Issue: International Critical Childhood Policy Studies Journal - Part I and II

The International Critical Childhood Policy Studies Journal is excited to announce the publication of new peer-reviewed research articles from emerging scholars who are currently working in various institutions around the world. The special issue co-editors, Xue Yin and Meredith Whye, highlight the theoretical and methodological approaches used by a group of newer academics in the fields of critical childhood studies and those focused on reconceptualizing early childhood education. 

Postfoundational Perspectives in Childhood Studies: Emerging Scholars - Part I

This issue highlights the theoretical and methodological approaches used by a group of newer academics in the fields of critical childhood studies and those focused on reconceptualizing early childhood education. Authors illustrate the variety of topics that researchers are currently focused on, and highlight, based on submissions, new ways to approach persistent issues in the fields of childhood studies and early childhood education. 

Embracing the Multiple: Emerging Critical Scholarship in Early Childhood Education - Part II

This issue examines how themes such as play, trust, and power are negotiated across various educational contexts, from global to local settings. Drawing on posthumanist theories, the issue challenges traditional human/nonhuman distinctions and critiques hierarchical, Eurocentric narratives in early childhood education.