Bibliographies of Lee Sing Kong Professors in Early Childhood Education

Archer, C., & Siraj, I. (2015). Encouraging physical development through movement-play. SAGE Publications Ltd.

Archer, C., & Siraj, I., & Okely, A. (2017). Movement environment rating scale (MOVERS) for 2-6-year-olds provision: Improving physical development through movement and physical activity. UCL IOE Press.

Mac Naughton, G., Rolfe, S. A., & Siraj-Blatchford, I. (Eds.). (2010). Doing early childhood research: International perspectives on theory and practice (2nd ed.). McGraw Hill; Open University Press.

Siraj, I., & Hallet, E. (2014). Effective and caring leadership in the early years. Sage.

Siraj, I., & Mayo, A. (2014). Social class and educational inequality: The impact of parents and schools. Cambridge University Press.

Siraj, I., Kingston, D., & Melhuish, E. (2015). Assessing quality in early childhood education and care: Sustained Shared Thinking and Emotional Well-being (SSTEW) Scale for 2-5-year-olds provision. Institute of Education Press (IOE Press).

Siraj, I., Taggart, B., Melhuish, E., Sammons, P., & Sylva, K. (2014). Exploring effective pedagogy in primary schools: Evidence from research. Pearson.

Siraj, I., Taggart, B., Sammons, P., Melhuish, E., Sylva, K., & Shepherd, D.-L. (2019). Teaching in effective primary schools: Research into pedagogy and children's learning. UCL IOE Press.

Siraj-Blatchford, I. (1994). The early years: Laying the foundations for racial equality. Trentham Books.

Siraj-Blatchford, I., & Clarke, P. (2000). Supporting identity, diversity and language in the early years. Open University Press.

Siraj-Blatchford, I., & Hallet, E. (2014). Effective and caring leadership in the early years. SAGE Publications Ltd.

Sylva, K., Melhuish, E., Sammons, P., Siraj-Blatchford, I., & Taggart, B. (2010). Early childhood matters: Evidence from the effective pre-school and primary education project. Routledge.

Siraj, I. (2017). Nurturing `21st century skills' in early childhood education and care. In L. Loble, T. Creenaune, & J. Hayes (Eds.), Future frontiers: Education for an AI world (pp. 141-153). Melbourne University Press.

Siraj, I., & Rehana Asani. (2015). The role of sustained shared thinking, play and metacognition in young children's learning. In S. Robson & S. F. Quinn (Eds.), The Routledge international handbook of young children's thinking and understanding (pp. 403-415). Routledge.

Siraj, I., Arancibia, V., & Barón, J. (2022). The role of management, leadership, and monitoring in producing quality learning outcomes in early childhood education. In M. Bendini & A. Devercelli (Eds.), Quality early learning: Nurturing children's potential (pp. 199-238). World Bank Publications.

Siraj-Blatchford, I. (1993). Social justice and teacher education in the UK. In G. K. Verma (Ed.), Inequality and teacher education: An international perspective (pp. 89-99). Falmer Press.

Siraj-Blatchford, I. (2009). Early childhood education (ECE). In T. Maynard & N. Thomas (Eds.), An Introduction to early childhood studies (pp. 148-160). Sage.

Siraj-Blatchford, I. (2010). A focus on pedagogy: Case studies of effective practice. In K. Sylva, E. Melhuish, P. Sammons, I. Siraj-Blatchford, & B. Taggart (Eds.), Early childhood matters: Evidence from the effective pre-school and primary education project (pp. 149-165). Routledge.

Siraj-Blatchford, I. (2010). An ethnographic approach to researching young children's learning. In G. Mac Naughton, S. A. Rolfe, & I. Siraj-Blatchford (Eds.), Doing early childhood research: International perspectives on theory and practice (2nd ed., pp. 271-289). McGraw Hill; Open University Press.

Siraj-Blatchford, I. (2010). Mixed-method designs. In G. Mac Naughton, S. A. Rolfe, & I. Siraj-Blatchford (Eds.), Doing early childhood research: International perspectives on theory and practice (2nd ed., pp. 193-208). McGraw Hill; Open University Press.

Siraj-Blatchford, I. (2010). The EPPE settings in the context of English pre-schools. In K. Sylva, E. Melhuish, P. Sammons, I. Siraj-Blatchford, & B. Taggart (Eds.), Early childhood matters: Evidence from the effective pre-school and primary education project (pp. 8-23). Routledge.

Siraj-Blatchford, I., & Clarke, P. (2010). Identity, self-esteem and learning. In L. Miller, C. Cable, & G. Goodliff (Eds.), Supporting children's learning in the early years (2nd ed., pp. 28-38). Open University; Routledge.

Sylva, K., Chan, L. L. S., Melhuish, E., Sammons, P., Siraj-Blatchford, I., & Taggart, B. (2011). Emergent literacy environments: Home and preschool influences on children's literacy development. In S. B. Neuman & D. K. Dickinson (Eds.), Handbook of early literacy research. (Volume 3, pp. 97-117). Guilford Publications.

Verenikina, I., Siraj, I., & Kervin, L. (2018). Learning through digital play in the Australian context of early childhood education and care. In N. Veraksa, S. Sheridan, T. Bertram, & C. Pascal (Eds.), Vygotsky’s theory in early childhood education and research: Russian and Western values (pp. 166-178). Routledge. 

Festerling, J., & Siraj, I. (2022). Anthropomorphizing technology: A conceptual review of anthropomorphism research and how it relates to children’s engagements with digital voice assistants. Integrative Psychological and Behavioral Science, 56, 709–738. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12124-021-09668-y

Festerling, J., Siraj, I., & Malmberg, L.-E. (2022). Exploring children’s exposure to voice assistants and their ontological conceptualizations of life and technology. AI & Society. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00146-022-01555-3

Howard, S. J., Siraj, I., Melhuish, E. C., Kingston, D., Neilsen-Hewett, C., de Rosnay, M., Duursma, E., & Luu, B. (2020). Measuring interactional quality in pre-school settings: Introduction and validation of the Sustained Shared Thinking and Emotional Wellbeing (SSTEW) scale. Early Child Development and Care, 190(7), 1017-1030. https://doi.org/10.1080/03004430.2018.1511549

Huang, R., Geng, Z., & Siraj, I. (2022). Exploring the associations among Chinese kindergartners between academic achievement and behavioral, cognitive and emotional self-regulation. Early Education and Development. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1080/10409289.2022.2056695

Kazmierska-Kowalewska, K. M., Okely, A. D., Siraj, I., Archer, C., & Jones, R. A. (2021). A validation and reliability study of the Movement Environmental Rating Scale (MOVERS). European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, 29(5), 733-746. https://doi.org/10.1080/1350293X.2021.1968464

Klaus, S., & Siraj, I. (2020). Improving Roma participation in European early childhood education systems through cultural brokering. London Review of Education, 18(1), 50-64. 

Mathers, S., & Siraj, I. (2021). Researching pre-school teachers’ knowledge of oral language pedagogy using video. Frontiers in Education, 6, Article 748347. https://doi.org/10.3389/feduc.2021.748347

Melhuish, E., Howard, S. J., Siraj, I., Neilsen-Hewett, C., Kingston, D., de Rosnay, M., Duursma, E., & Luu, B. (2016). Fostering Effective Early Learning (FEEL) through a professional development programme for early childhood educators to improve professional practice and child outcomes in the year before formal schooling: Study protocol for a cluster randomised controlled trial. Trials, 17, Article 602. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13063-016-1742-1

Siraj, I., Howard, S. J., Kingston, D., Neilsen-Hewett, C., Melhuish, E. C., & de Rosnay, M. (2019). Comparing regulatory and non-regulatory indices of early childhood education and care (ECEC) quality in the Australian early childhood sector. The Australian Educational Researcher, 46, 365–383. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13384-019-00325-3

Siraj, I., Melhuish, E., Howard, S. J., Neilsen-Hewett, C., Kingston, D., de Rosnay, M., Huang, R., Gardiner, J., & Luu, B. (2023). Improving quality of teaching and child development: A randomised controlled trial of the leadership for learning intervention in preschools. Frontiers in Psychology, 13, Article 1092284. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.1092284

Thorpe, K., Rankin, P., Beatton, T., Houen, S., Sandi, M., Siraj, I., & Staton, S. (2020). The when and what of measuring ECE quality: Analysis of variation in the Classroom Assessment Scoring System (CLASS) across the ECE day. Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 53, 274-286. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecresq.2020.05.003

Toth, K., Sammons, P., Sylva, K., Melhuish, E., Siraj, I., & Taggart, B. (2020). Home learning environment across time: The role of early years HLE and background in predicting HLE at later ages. School Effectiveness and School Improvement, 31(1), 7-30. https://doi.org/10.1080/09243453.2019.1618348