Asian Journal of Early Childhood and Elementary Education

Asian Journal of Early Childhood and Elementary Education https://ejournal.yasin-alsys.org/AJECEE  <div id="ajecee-home-compact" style="max-width: 980px; width: 100%; margin: 0 auto; padding: 12px 10px; box-sizing: border-box; background: #F7F7E6; border: 1px solid #EAEAD2; border-radius: 16px; box-shadow: 0 8px 20px rgba(15,23,42,.06); font-family: system-ui,-apple-system,'Segoe UI',Roboto,Arial,'Helvetica Neue','Noto Sans','Liberation Sans',sans-serif; color: #2a3b50; font-size: 16.2px; line-height: 1.82; letter-spacing: .08px; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-word; hyphens: auto; overflow-wrap: anywhere; word-break: break-word; overflow-x: hidden; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;"> <div style="padding: 12px; border: 1px solid #ECECD5; border-radius: 14px; background: linear-gradient(180deg,#FFFDF8,#F6F6E3); box-sizing: border-box;"> <div style="display: flex; flex-wrap: wrap; gap: 12px; align-items: flex-start;"> <div style="flex: 0 0 150px; max-width: 100%;"><img style="display: block; width: 150px; max-width: 100%; height: auto; border-radius: 10px; border: 1px solid #ECECD5; background: #FFFDF7; box-shadow: 0 6px 14px rgba(15,23,42,.06);" src="https://ejournal.yasin-alsys.org/public/journals/16/journalThumbnail_en_US.jpg" alt="Asian Journal of Early Childhood and Elementary Education (AJECEE) Journal Cover"></div>  <div style="flex: 1 1 320px; min-width: 0; text-align: left;"> <div style="margin: 0; font-size: 22px; line-height: 1.35; font-weight: 800; color: #142238; text-align: left;">Asian Journal of Early Childhood and Elementary Education (AJECEE)</div> <div style="margin-top: 6px; color: #3b5068; font-size: 15.6px; text-align: left; line-height: 1.7;"><strong style="color: #1e2b3e;">Print ISSN:</strong> <a style="color: #1d4f8a; text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold;" href="https://portal.issn.org/resource/ISSN/3025-7565" target="_blank" rel="noopener">3025-7565</a> <span style="color: #c8c1b0;"> • </span> <strong style="color: #1e2b3e;">Online ISSN:</strong> <a style="color: #1d4f8a; text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold;" href="https://portal.issn.org/resource/ISSN/3025-6917" target="_blank" rel="noopener">3025-6917</a></div> <div style="margin-top: 10px; color: #3b5068; font-size: 15.7px; line-height: 1.78; text-align: justify;"><strong style="color: #1e2b3e;">Latest Issue:</strong> <strong style="color: #1e2b3e;">Vol. 4 No. 2 (April 2026)</strong>. This issue features peer-reviewed contributions that advance multidisciplinary scholarship in early childhood and elementary education, and provide evidence-informed responses to contemporary learning, development, and classroom practice challenges.</div> <div style="margin-top: 10px; display: flex; flex-wrap: wrap; gap: 8px; text-align: left;"><span style="display: inline-block; padding: 6px 11px; border-radius: 999px; background: #F3ECDD; border: 1px solid #E2D2BF; color: #5a3518; font-size: 13px; font-weight: bold;">Open Access</span> <span style="display: inline-block; padding: 6px 11px; border-radius: 999px; background: #EAF0F8; border: 1px solid #D4E0F0; color: #1b3b63; font-size: 13px; font-weight: bold;">Peer Reviewed</span> <span style="display: inline-block; padding: 6px 11px; border-radius: 999px; background: #EAF5EE; border: 1px solid #CFE6D8; color: #0c4a3d; font-size: 13px; font-weight: bold;">ECE & Elementary</span></div> </div> </div>  <div style="margin-top: 12px; padding-top: 12px; 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width: 38px; height: 26px; border-radius: 6px; border: 1px solid #ECECD5; background: #FFFDF7;" src="https://ejournal.yasin-alsys.org/files/country/nep.png" alt="Nepal"> <img style="display: block; width: 38px; height: 26px; border-radius: 6px; border: 1px solid #ECECD5; background: #FFFDF7;" src="https://ejournal.yasin-alsys.org/files/country/turkey.png" alt="Turkey"></div> </div> </div> </div>  <div style="margin-top: 12px; padding: 12px; border: 1px solid #EAEAD2; border-radius: 14px; background: #F3F3DC; box-sizing: border-box;"> <div style="display: flex; flex-wrap: wrap; gap: 12px; align-items: flex-start;"> <div style="flex: 1 1 260px; min-width: 0; text-align: left;"><img style="display: block; width: 100%; max-width: 300px; height: 110px; object-fit: contain; margin: 0 auto; border-radius: 10px; border: 1px solid #ECECD5; background: #FFFDF7;" src="https://ejournal.yasin-alsys.org/public/journals/16/favicon_en_US.png" alt="AJECEE logo"> <div style="margin-top: 10px; display: flex; flex-wrap: wrap; gap: 8px;"><a style="flex: 1 1 180px; display: block; text-align: center; padding: 11px 14px; border-radius: 999px; background: #EAF0F8; border: 1px solid #D4E0F0; color: #142238; text-decoration: none; font-weight: 800;" href="https://ejournal.yasin-alsys.org/ajecee/online_submissions" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Online Submissions</a> <a style="flex: 1 1 180px; display: block; text-align: center; padding: 11px 14px; border-radius: 999px; background: #FFFDF7; border: 1px solid #ECECD5; color: #142238; text-decoration: none; font-weight: 800;" href="https://ejournal.yasin-alsys.org/ajecee/peer_review_process" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Peer Review Process</a></div> </div>  <div style="flex: 2 1 420px; min-width: 0; color: #3b5068; font-size: 16.1px; line-height: 1.84; text-align: justify;"><strong>AJECEE</strong> (<em>Asian Journal of Early Childhood and Elementary Education</em>) is an open-access, double-blind peer-reviewed journal that disseminates research and critical scholarship advancing <strong>early childhood education</strong> and <strong>elementary education</strong>. The journal publishes <strong>original research</strong>, <strong>theoretical analyses</strong>, and <strong>critical reviews</strong>, and welcomes contributions from academics, researchers, graduate students, and policymakers in international contexts. AJECEE publishes <strong style="color: #1e2b3e;">six</strong> issues per year (February, April, June, August, October, and December).</div> </div> </div>  <div style="margin-top: 12px; display: flex; flex-wrap: wrap; gap: 12px; align-items: stretch;"> <div style="flex: 1 1 320px; min-width: 0; padding: 12px; border: 1px solid #EAEAD2; border-radius: 14px; background: #FFFDF7; box-sizing: border-box;"> <div style="margin: 0 0 8px 0; font-size: 18px; font-weight: 800; color: #142238; text-align: left;">Aims</div> <div style="color: #2f425a; font-size: 15.9px; line-height: 1.84; text-align: justify;"><em>Asian Journal of Early Childhood and Elementary Education (AJECEE)</em> aims to publish rigorous, peer-reviewed research and scholarly analyses that advance knowledge, policy, and practice in <strong>early childhood</strong> and <strong>elementary education</strong>. The journal prioritizes evidence-informed approaches to teaching, learning, development, and educational systems that improve outcomes and equity for young learners.</div> <div style="margin-top: 10px; color: #2f425a; font-size: 15.9px; line-height: 1.84;"> <div style="margin: 8px 0; text-align: justify;"><strong>• Learning and Pedagogy:</strong> advance teaching, learning, and assessment in ECE and elementary classrooms through defensible instructional research.</div> <div style="margin: 8px 0; text-align: justify;"><strong>• Child Development:</strong> strengthen evidence on cognitive, socio-emotional, language, motor, and well-being development and its educational implications.</div> <div style="margin: 8px 0; text-align: justify;"><strong>• Inclusive and Equitable Education:</strong> promote special needs inclusion, multilingual contexts, gender equity, and culturally responsive approaches.</div> <div style="margin: 8px 0; text-align: justify;"><strong>• Family, Community, and School Partnerships:</strong> encourage collaboration that supports early learning, child well-being, and sustainable school improvement.</div> <div style="margin: 8px 0; text-align: justify;"><strong>• Policy and Systems Research:</strong> support curriculum, teacher development, governance, and quality assurance relevant to ECE and elementary education.</div> </div> <div style="margin-top: 10px; padding: 10px 12px; border: 1px solid #DDE0C8; border-radius: 12px; background: #EEF0DA; color: #2f425a; font-size: 15.6px; line-height: 1.8; text-align: justify;">Manuscripts should specify age or grade and setting, report measurement and analysis transparently, and articulate practical implications for teaching, learning support, assessment, and policy in early childhood and elementary education.</div> </div>  <div style="flex: 1 1 320px; min-width: 0; padding: 12px; border: 1px solid #EAEAD2; border-radius: 14px; background: #FFFDF7; box-sizing: border-box;"> <div style="margin: 0 0 8px 0; font-size: 18px; font-weight: 800; color: #142238; text-align: left;">Scope</div> <div style="color: #2f425a; font-size: 15.9px; line-height: 1.84; text-align: justify;">AJECEE considers manuscripts across <strong>early childhood education</strong> and <strong>elementary education</strong>, including classroom-based studies, program evaluations, curriculum research, and system-level policy analyses. Submissions may employ quantitative, qualitative, mixed-methods, or design-based approaches, provided the educational contribution is explicit and evidence-grounded.</div> <div style="margin-top: 10px; color: #2f425a; font-size: 15.9px; line-height: 1.84;"> <div style="margin: 8px 0; text-align: justify;"><strong>• Early Childhood Learning and Development:</strong> play-based learning, early literacy and numeracy, language development, socio-emotional learning, and school readiness.</div> <div style="margin: 8px 0; text-align: justify;"><strong>• Elementary Teaching, Learning, and Assessment:</strong> subject pedagogy, formative assessment, learning difficulties, intervention studies, and instructional innovation.</div> <div style="margin: 8px 0; text-align: justify;"><strong>• Inclusive Education and Well-Being:</strong> special needs education, inclusive classrooms, child protection, health and well-being, and equitable learning supports.</div> <div style="margin: 8px 0; text-align: justify;"><strong>• Teachers, Families, and Communities:</strong> teacher education, professional development, classroom management, parental involvement, and community-based learning ecosystems.</div> <div style="margin: 8px 0; text-align: justify;"><strong>• Curriculum, Policy, and Quality Systems:</strong> curriculum development, quality assurance, governance, program evaluation, and early-to-primary transition policy.</div> </div> <div style="margin-top: 10px; padding: 10px 12px; border: 1px solid #DDE0C8; border-radius: 12px; background: #EEF0DA; color: #2f425a; font-size: 15.6px; line-height: 1.8; text-align: justify;">Authors are encouraged to clarify age or grade appropriateness, learning context and equity considerations, and to report interventions and outcomes with sufficient detail to support replication and responsible adaptation.</div> </div> </div> </div>  en-US <p style="text-align: justify;"><a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/" rel="license"><img src="//i.creativecommons.org/l/by-nc-sa/4.0/88x31.png" alt="Creative Commons License"></a><br>Authors retain copyright and grant the journal right of first publication with the work simultaneously licensed under a <strong><a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/" rel="license">Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License</a></strong> that allows others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.</p> [email protected] (Saprudin Efendi) [email protected] (M. 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