Prof. dr. Pauline Slot

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Prof. dr. Pauline Slot has been appointed Endowed Chair of Integrative pedagogy for the care and education of 0 to 13-year-old children on July 1st 2025. The special chair was designated on behalf of Bijzondere Leerstoelen van de Stichting CAOP and financed by childcare (stakeholder) organizations and school boards (Kidsfoundation/Partou; Brancheorganisatie Kinderopvang; Branchevereniging Maatschappelijke Kinderopvang; Humankind; Katholieke Scholenstichting Utrecht; Stichting Boor; regio Tilburg: Xpect013, Kinderstad, Mondiaen en Atalenta).

Her national and international research focuses on quality in Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC) provisions and primary education. Particularly, she is interested in the relations between structural quality characteristics at the classroom and organizational level, and curriculum quality with process quality and child outcomes, such as wellbeing, social-emotional, self-regulation and (pre)academic skills. She is especially interested in the nature, causes and impact of early emerging social and educational inequalities in the context of socioeconomic, cultural and diversity. She studies issues of cultural and linguistic diversity and inclusiveness in the (pre)school classroom and the role of professionals. Her international work includes the development of curriculum and professional development interventions aimed to improve ECEC quality and inclusive practices. Further, her work focuses on different types of childcare (center-based and home-based) across the age range 0-13 years, and the degree of coordination and collaboration with primary education and how organizational dynamics play a role in building interprofessional partnerships.

She collaborates with colleagues from Belgium (prof. Michel Vandenbroeck, prof. Jochen Devlieghere) Denmark (prof. Dorthe Bleses), Germany (prof. Yvonne Anders), Greece (prof. Konstantinos Petrogiannis and Effie Penderi), Norway (Helga Norheim), Poland (Olga Wyslowska and Krzystof Bulkowski), Portugal (Cecilia Aguiar, Joana Cadima and Gil Nata), United States (prof. Laura Justice and Kelly Purtell) and United Arabic Emirates (Antje von Suchodoletz).

She acts as consultant or advisor at the local level (several municipalities), national level (Ministries of Education and of Social Affairs, The Advisory Council of Education) and the international level (EU DG for Education and Culture, EU ECEC working group, OECD, Irish Ministry of Children, Equality, Diversity, Integration and Youth, and Oregon State Department of Education).

Currently, she is project leader of the Dutch study into quality of child care (LKK) funded by the Ministry of Social Affairs and Employment. She is also involved in the ongoing national pre-COOL project. She was involved in the European H2020 ISOTIS project and the European FP7 CARE project. She is Early Childhood Domain Chair of Dynamics of Youth

Blog posts EarlyYearsBlog.nl:

15-01-2025 Everybody happy?

15-09-2023 Wie doet er al aan 'Singeren'? Vergroten van spelbetrokkenheid van jonge kinderen

01-10-2021 Meer bewegen is gezond voor lichaam en geest

20-08-2021 Waarom is wachten zo moeilijk voor peuters?

21-01-2021 Baby's in de kinderopvang: wat draagt bij aan een hogere kwaliteit?

21-8-2020 Als mijn kind maar gelukkig is

8-6-2020 Discriminatie: samen kunnen we hier iets aan doen

22-5-2020 Kansenongelijkheid aanpakken in de groep

10-4-2020 Voorschoolse opvang en educatie kan de vicieuze cirkel van armoede doorbreken: 3 belangrijke conclusies uit het Perry Preschool Experiment

16-3-2020 Het opvangen van kinderen nu we geconfronteerd worden met corona

28-02-2020 Inspirerend en kleurrijk voorbeeld uit Brussel inclusieve kinderopvang ten top