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Volume 1 Issue 1 February 2020 ISSN: 2717-638X Journal of Childhood, Education & Society Volume 1 • Issue 1 February 2020 Editor in Chief Mehmet Toran, Ph.D., Istanbul Kultur University, Turkey Editors Mesut Saçkes, Ph.D., Balıkesir University, Turkey Mine Gol-Guven, Ph.D., Boğaziçi University, Turkey Editorial Board Adrijana Višnjić Jevtić, Ph.D., University of Zagreb, Croatia Ahmet Simsar, Ph.D., Kilis 7 Aralik University, Turkey Aileen Garcia, Ph.D., South Dakota State University, USA Alicje Renata Sadownik, Ph.D., Western Norway University of Applied Sciences, Norway Anikó Vargáné Nagy, Ph.D., University of Debrecen, Hungary Aysel Tufekci Akcan, Ph.D., Gazi University, Turkey Betty Liebovich, Ph.D., Goldsmiths University of London, UK Burcu Unlutabak, Ph.D., John Hopkins University, USA Carmen Huser, Ph.D., Early Childhood Australia, Australia Carolyn Brockmeyer Cates, Ph.D., State University of New York Purchase College, USA Elif Karsli, Ph.D., University of South Carolina, USA Elsa Lucia Escalante Barrios, Ph.D., Universidad del Norte, Colombia Ersoy Erdemir, Ph.D., Bogazici University, Turkey Francesca Zanatta, Ph.D., University of East London, UK Gulsah Ozturk, Ph.D., RMIT University, Australia Hasina Banu Ebrahim, Ph.D., University of South Africa, South Africa Ibrahim H. Acar, Ph.D., Ozyegin University, Turkey Ikbal Tuba Sahin-Sak, Ph.D., Van Yuzuncu Yil University, Turkey Jesús Paz-Albo, Ph.D., King Juan Carlos University, Spain Jolyn Blank, Ph.D., University of South Florida, USA Kathy Cabe Trundle, Ph.D., Utah State University, USA Ken Blaiklock, Ph.D., Unitec Institute of Technology, New Zealand Konstantina Rentzou, Ph.D., European University of Cyprus, Cyprus Kristin M. Gagnier, Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University, USA Kyunghwa Lee, Ph.D., University of Georgia, USA Lasse Lipponen, Ph.D., University of Helsinki, Finland Maelis Karlsson Lohmander, Ph.D., University of Gothenburg, Sweden Maide Orcan, Ph.D., Mugla Sitki Kocman University, Turkey Martha Allexsaht-Snider, Ph.D., University of Georgia, USA Maryam S. Sharifian, Ph.D., James Madison University, USA Mehmet Mart, Ph.D., Necmettin Erbakan University, Turkey Michael F. Kelley, Ed.D., Arizona State University, USA Mustafa Yasar, Ph.D., Cukurova University, Turkey Noelia Sánchez-Pérez, Ph.D., University of Zaragoza, Spain Ozcan Dogan, Ph.D., Hacettepe University, Turkey Paulette A. Luff, Ph.D., Anglia Ruskin University, UK Pekka Mertala, Ph.D., University of Oulu, Finland Ramazan Sak, Ph.D., Van Yuzuncu Yil University, Turkey Riza Ozdemir, Ph.D., Zonguldak Bulent Ecevit University, Turkey Sharolyn Pollard-Durodola, Ph.D., University of Nevada Las Vegas, USA Sharon L. Raimondi, Ph.D., University at Buffalo, USA Sonnur Isitan, Ph.D., Balikesir University, Turkey Sultan Kilinc, Ph.D., Syracuse University, USA Tim Rohrmann, Ph.D., University of Applied Science and Arts Hildesheim, Germany Tony Bertram, Ph.D., Centre for Research in Early Childhood, UK Yasin Ozturk, Ph.D., Trabzon University, Turkey Yuwei Xu, Ph.D., University College London, UK Editorial Assistants Gizem Alvan, Bogazici University, Turkey Kerem Avci, Hacettepe University,Turkey Taibe Kulaksiz, Istanbul Kultur University, Turkey Publisher: Journal of Childhood, Education and Society Publishing Manager: Dr. Mehmet Toran Editorial Office: Istanbul Kültür University Faculty of Education Basin Ekspres Campus 34303 Küçükçekmece/ Istanbul-TURKEY e-mail: [email protected] phone: +902124984131 Cover Page Picture: Diren Toran (3 years old) Publication Type: Biannually published, peer reviewed, open access academic journal. WEB Site: www.j-ces.com/index.php/jces, DOI: 10.37291/2717638X.202011 ISSN: 2717-638X Journal of Childhood, Education & Society Volume 1 • Issue 1 February 2020 CONTENTS EDITORIAL Stay in solidarity and share equally: An open access journal in childhood studies Mehmet Toran, Mesut Sackes & Mine Gol-Guven……………………………………………...… 1-2 RESEARCH ARTICLES Perspectives of teachers, children, and parents on the transition to first grade Miriam Breuer & Clodie Tal…………….……............................................................................... 3-18 Muraling the invisible strings: Collective memory work from an educator inquiry group Margaret Clark …………….………............................................................................................. 19-28 STEM starts early: Views and beliefs of early childhood education stakeholders in Tanzania Laurent Gabriel Ndijuye & Pambas Basilius Tandika...................................................................... 29-42 Parents’ role in adolescents’ leisure time use: From goals to parenting practices Annelore Van der Eecken, Bram Spruyt & Lieve Bradt .................................................................. 43-62 Early childhood preservice teachers’ debugging block-based programs: An eye tracking study Lucas Vasconcelos, Ismahan Arslan-Ari & Fatih Ari………………………………….................... 63-77 Colombian retrospective study of the association between breastfeeding duration and eating behaviors Carlos Rincón, Elsa Lucia Escalante Barrios, Sonia Suárez Enciso, Jesús Estrada, Marilyn Anturi Linero & Alejandra Hérdenez……………………………………………………………………. 78-86 ii Journal of Childhood, Education & Society Volume 1, Issue 1, 2020, pp. 1-2 ISSN: 2717-638X DOI: 10.37291/2717638X.20201135 Editorial Stay in solidarity and share equally: An open access journal in childhood studies Mehmet Toran*, Mesut Sackes**, Mine Gol-Guven*** Journal of Childhood, Education & Society (JCES) was founded as a product of collective thought under the leadership of Dr. Mehmet Toran in July 2019 by a group of early childhood researchers who conduct both collaborative and independent academic research. Under the light of scientific research, current publishing policies cannot eliminate inequalities in public access for transfer and access of knowledge that is generated for the public weal (Beall, 2013). Particularly, having a limited access to the knowledge in early childhood studies is acknowledged as the first step for constitution of JCES. In this context, we would like to underline that independent researchers who are voluntarily taking part in the emergence of JCES are involved in a very courageous endeavour. This collective constitution takes an important responsibility for the public as well, and we point out that to fulfil this responsibility, it embraces moral and ethical rules as a reference point. Objectives, scope and ethical principles of JCES are determined with the contribution of the editorial board. In addition, we make promise to the larger research community of early childhood area that we will make sure to contribute to the area by giving a priority to high quality of research with robust evidence. JCES adopts open science perspective in early childhood studies. Therefore, JCES has a high opinion of sharing the knowledge among people who are in children’s ecology democratically. Attaching importance to open science policy, JCES defends scientific knowledge as public property that should be shared with all without depressing its value (Tonta, 2015). In the light of this target, -as JCES editorial board- we believe that scientific information that has been produced as public property should be shared with everyone through open access. The scientific communication enhanced between researchers- practitioners-readers is aimed to put into practice through the “open access” method. In this context, as open access policy within JCES, we embraced non-profit, voluntary editorial operations without charging a fee either from the reader or authors. Our experiences during publishing our first issue promise that it can be put into practice with a collective movement voluntarily on a digital platform. Solidarity is possible to carry out editorial process not only in Turkey but also with a contribution from every corner of the world. We have given extra importance to research ethics as our publishing policy. While specifying ethical principles, we aimed to take researcher’s attention to this issue. In this sense, after discussions with EECERA and then with the permission from Trustees of EECERA, we decided to embrace EECERA Ethical Code for Early Childhood Researchers that is formulated by Chris Pascal, Tony Bertram, Julia Formosinho, Colette Gray and Margy Whalley (2012). The ethical code bears qualification as a guide for researchers working in the early childhood area. We would like to indicate that applicant articles to the JCES are also evaluated in terms of those ethical codes during the editorial preliminary consideration process. After calling for papers for the inaugural issue, we had a considerable amount of article applications. *Istanbul Kültür University, Faculty of Education, Department of Early Childhood Education, Istanbul, Turkey, e-mail: [email protected]; ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003- 3457-9113 ** Balikesir University, Necatibey School of Education, Department of Early Childhood Education, Balikesir, Turkey, e-mail:[email protected], ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000- 0003-3673-1668 ***Bogazici University, Faculty of Education, Department of Early Childhood Education, Istanbul, Turkey, e-mail: [email protected], ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000- 0002-1675-4478 ©2020 Journal of Childhood, Education & Society. This is an open access article under the CC BY- NC- ND license. (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) Mehmet TORAN, Mesut SACKES & Mine GOL-GUVEN Those applications studiously evaluated by the referees after preliminary considerations.