Teaching for the Future in Early Childhood Education

Dr. Marta Licardo is professor at University of Maribor, Faculty of Education, Slovenia. Her research interests are pedagogy, didactics, social sciences in early childhood education, inclusion, education of children with special needs and immigrant children. She is country coordinator for European Early Childhood Education Research Association for Slovenia. She participates in numerous projects on national and international level.

Maribor, Slovenia. E-mail: marta.licardo@um.si

Dr. Jasminka Mezak is professor at Faculty of Teacher Education, University of Rijeka, Croatia and lectures several undergraduate and graduate courses related to informatics. Her main professional and research interests are in the field of using ICT and digital tools in education, including blended learning approaches, and implementation and evaluation of new pedagogical approaches using ICT. From 2017-2019, she was a leader of the project team from Faculty of Teacher Education as a partner in Erasmus+ project „Games for Teaching Algorithmic Thinking”.

Rijeka, Croatia. E-mail: jasminka.mezak@uniri.hr

Dr. İlke Evin Gencel completed her Ph.D in Curriculum Development and Instruction field, she is professor at Izmir Demokrasi Univeristy. She has national and international studies on curriculum development, instructional design, experiential learning and teacher education. She carried out her postdoctoral research at Florida State University, USA. She also completed numerous educational projects including educational technologies her scholarly work life.

Izmir, Turkey. E-mail: ilke.evingencel@idu.edu.tr