How Aspects of the Home Environment Promote Young Children’s Academic and Social Development
A special issue of Education Sciences (ISSN 2227-7102). This special issue belongs to the section "Early Childhood Education".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 December 2025 | Viewed by 28
Special Issue Editors
Interests: promoting the academic success of children from diverse (race/ethnicity, SES, linguistic) backgrounds; how parental beliefs and practices are associated with children’s academic development
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Interests: early childhood education; universal design for learning (UDL); early childhood mathematics; STEAM in early childhood education; STEAM in inclusive settings; early childhood teacher education
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
This Special Issue will explore how home-based factors promote young children’s (approx. ages: 2–8 years) social/emotional and academic development. Most theories of development discuss the importance of the home in fostering children’s development (e.g., Bronfenbrenner, 1979) without necessarily distinguishing which home factors are related to which aspects of children’s development. We welcome submissions that discuss how different aspects of the home (e.g., parents, siblings, grandparents, or different artifacts) foster children’s social/emotional and/or academic development. We welcome original research articles, concept/theoretical papers, and reviews that address, but are not limited to, the following topics:
- Home learning experiences that help children develop social/emotional and/or academic growth in early childhood;
- The use of digital devices in the home (tablets, laptops, etc.) and its impact on social/emotional and/or academic development;
- How young children with disabilities are included in home-based social and/or academic experiences in early childhood;
- How parents of young children with disabilities support their child’s social and/or academic skills;
- How educators support home academic and/or social development;
- Social/emotional skill development in early childhood;
- Play-based learning at home to develop social or academic skills in early childhood;
- The connection between social/emotional and academic development and factors that foster them.
We look forward to receiving your contributions.
Dr. Susan Sonnenschein
Dr. Michele L. Stites
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- children’s social development
- children’s academic/educational development
- children’s early development
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