This special issue celebrates selected papers from the 2021 AJEC Symposium, Complexity and Change: Contemporary Research in Early Childhood, held in the second year of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. The stressors caused by the pandemic have been felt across the early childhood sector and a growing body of research explores the challenges facing young children and the ways in which families, educators and early years programmes are adapting (Yoshikawa et al., 2020). The emergence of solidarity and shared recognition between educators following prolonged periods of lockdown (Quinones), and introduction of organisation-level strategies to support educator well-being (Logan, McFarland, Cumming & Wong) are two examples that reflect the individual, interpersonal and organisational dimensions of change incurred by the pandemic.

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复杂性与变化：幼儿期的当代研究

本期特刊庆祝 2021 年 AJEC 研讨会的精选论文，复杂性与变化：幼儿的当代研究，在持续的 COVID-19 大流行的第二年举行。整个幼儿部门都感受到了大流行造成的压力，越来越多的研究探索了幼儿面临的挑战以及家庭、教育工作者和早教项目的适应方式（Yoshikawa 等，2020）。长期封锁后教育工作者之间出现团结和共同认可（醌），以及引入组织层面的战略来支持教育工作者的福祉（洛根、麦克法兰、卡明和黄）是反映个人、人际关系和人际关系的两个例子。大流行引起的变革的组织层面。