The Dialog
The Dialog: A Journal for Inclusive Early Childhood Professionals is an open-access, peer-reviewed journal centered in early childhood (prenatal through age 8).
Mission
The mission of The Dialog: A Journal for Inclusive Early Childhood Professionals is to promote the translation of research to practice in pursuit of meaningful inclusion for young children and their families.across early childhood personnel preparation, practice, and policy.
The Dialog fulfills its mission by:
- Disseminating high quality research that is accessible to all members of the early childhood community who support young children (prenatal through age eight) and their families,,
- Ensuring research is translated into actionable strategies in support of preservice and ongoing personnel preparation, inclusive practice, and policy,
- Centering the lived experiences of children, families, practitioners, and faculty/trainers,
- Providing an open forum to cultivate authentic partnerships across home, school, and community contexts by connecting families, researchers, preservice and ongoing professional development providers, students, and practitioners.
Focus and Scope
The Dialog solicits manuscripts that highlight evidence-based and research-supported practices that aim to produce positive outcomes for young children and their families in ways that reflect lived experiences and varied perspectives from across the early childhood context.
The Dialog welcomes reports of original research as well as other manuscript types grounded in research such as conceptual articles, reviews of the literature, and Dialogs from the Field, descriptive articles rooted in practice and program development. All manuscripts submitted to The Dialog should clearly delineate applications to practice, personnel preparation, research, and/or policy. We are particularly interested in manuscripts that are the products of meaningful partnerships between members of the early childhood community.
To intentionally support the effective translation of research to practice and preparation, authors of research manuscripts accepted for publication will be asked to create a separate research-to-practice product summarizing their research findings for use by practitioners, families, policy makers, and/or personnel preparation providers This product will be subjected to editorial review and published in the same issue of The Dialogas the research article.
The Dialog, housed at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte and supported by the Center for Educational Measurement and Evaluation, is sponsored by TED and the TED Early Childhood Faculty SIG, also known as TeDeC. Learn more about TeDeC HERE!
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Questions?
Contact Ann Mickelson, Editor-in-Chief, at amickels@charlotte.edu or
Ready to engage?
Once registered, submit your manuscript!
Please contact Ann Mickelson, Editor-in-Chief of The Dialog with any questions. amickels@charlotte.edu
TED Early CHildhood SIG (TeDeC)
Please contact the Early Childhood Chair, Marla Lohmann at mlohmann@ccu.edu