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 () funded by the Ministry of Social Affairs and Employment. She is also involved in the ongoing national . She was involved in the European H2020 and the European FP7 . She is Early Childhood Domain Chair of Dynamics of Youth
Blog posts EarlyYearsBlog.nl:
15-01-2025
15-09-2023
01-10-2021
20-08-2021
21-01-2021
21-8-2020
8-6-2020
22-5-2020
10-4-2020
16-3-2020
28-02-2020
8-11-2019
5-7-2019
24-5-2019
10-5-2019
26-10-2018
8-10-2018
29-09-2018
Webinars:
12-04-2021
24-06-2020
