Aims & Scope

IKADPAUDI Journal of Early Childhood and Child Rights (IKAD-ECCR) is an international, peer-reviewed, Diamond Open Access journal that advances scholarship at the intersection of early childhood education and child rights.

The journal seeks theoretically informed, empirically rigorous, ethically responsible, and policy-relevant work that improves understanding of young children's education, development, protection, participation, well-being, and rights.

Areas of interest

early childhood education, curriculum, pedagogy, play, assessment, and development;
child rights, implementation of children's rights, and rights-based approaches;
child protection, safeguarding, violence prevention, and safe learning environments;
parenting, families, caregiving, and alternative care;
inclusive education, disability, neurodiversity, equity, and social justice;
children's participation, agency, voice, and citizenship;
early childhood policy, law, financing, administration, accountability, and governance;
teachers, practitioners, professional learning, leadership, and workforce development;
digital childhoods, media, technology, and artificial intelligence;
climate change, environmental justice, disaster risk, and young children;
health, nutrition, well-being, and integrated early childhood services;
comparative, international, interdisciplinary, and Global South childhood studies.

Types of scholarship

IKAD-ECCR welcomes qualitative, quantitative, mixed-methods, participatory, comparative, longitudinal, evaluation, policy, legal, theoretical, conceptual, systematic review, scoping review, and other rigorous interdisciplinary approaches.

The journal welcomes scholarship from all regions of the world and particularly values work that connects local evidence with wider theoretical, policy, or comparative significance.

Out of scope

Manuscripts that report only routine classroom activities, local programme descriptions, instrument development without substantial scholarly contribution, or narrowly descriptive findings without a clear connection to early childhood scholarship or child rights are normally outside the journal's scope.