Sylvie Rayna Editor

Sylvie Rayna is researching and teaching at the French Institute of Education (IFE) in the Ecole Normale Supérieure of Lyon (ENSL) and at University Paris 13 where she is in charge of the research program ‘Early Childhood’ within the research center EXPERICE. She has worked on socio-cognitive development and carried out evaluations of ECEC policies and comparative studies. Ferre Laevers is director of the Research Centre for Experiential Education (EXE) based at the University of Leuven, Belgium. Through practice oriented research, development and dissemination EXE became an influential educational movement with concepts, instruments and materials inspiring researchers, practitioners and policy makers in ECEC all over the world.