Mathias Urban
PROF

Mathias
Urban, PhD, is Desmond Chair of Early Childhood Education,
and Director of the Early Childhood Research Centre (ECRC) at Dublin City
University, Ireland (DCU). He works on questions of policy related to diversity and equality,
social justice, evaluation and professionalism in education and care systems for young children,
families and communities in diverse socio-cultural contexts.
Before joining DCU Mathias held the
position of Froebel Professor of Early Childhood Studies and Director of the
Early Childhood Research Centre at the University of Roehampton, London, United
Kingdom.
Mathias is Honorary Professor at the University of Roehampton, London, UK, Professor II at the University of Stavanger, Norway, Visiting Professor at the Nacional University of Colombia and at Universidad de La Sabana, Colombia, at Universidad de San Andrés, Buenos Aires, Argentina, and
Affiliate
Professor and Fellow at EDPolicyFORWARD: The Center for Educational Policy at George
Mason University, VA, USA.
Mathias has 20 years experience in
designing and leading international collaborative research projects. He has a
well-established track record of publications in international peer-reviewed
journals; his work has been classified as ‘world leading’ and ‘internationally
excellent’ in the context of the Research Excellence Framework (REF) of the
United Kingdom.
In 2018, Mathias was awarded the ‘Marianne Bloch Distinguished
Career Award’ by the international Reconceptualising
Early Childhood Education network.
From 2010 to 2011 he coordinated the
European CoRe project (Competence
Requirements in Early Childhood Education and Care). His current and recent
projects include collaborative studies on early childhood systems and
governance in Europe and Latin America, studies on Privatisation and on the impact of Assessment Regimes, and an 11-country project on Governance and Leadership for Competent
Systems in Early Childhood.
Mathias is the lead author of the 2018
(Argentina), 2019 (Japan) and 2020 (Saudi Arabia) G20/T20 early childhood development, education and
care policy briefs, and a member of the European Commission expert working
group on Early Childhood Education and Care.
Mathias is Chair of the DECET network (Diversity in Early Childhood Education and
Training) and was President of the International Froebel Society (IFS) from
2016-2019.
Book
Peer Reviewed Journal
Year | Publication | |
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2020 | Arndt, Sonja; Smith, Kylie; Urban, Mathias; Ellegard, Tomas; Blue Swadener, Beth; Murray, Colette (2020) 'Reconceptualising and (re)forming early childhood professional identities: Ongoing transnational policy discussions'. Policy Futures in Education, . | |
2020 | Moss, Peter & Urban, Mathias (2020) 'The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development’s International Early Learning and Child Well-being Study: The scores are in!'. Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood, 18 (2):250-258. Link | |
2018 | Urban, Mathias (2018) 'Editorial'. European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, 26 (3). | |
2017 | Urban, M. (2017) 'We need meaningful, systematic evaluation, not a preschool PISA'. Global Education Review, . | |
2017 | Urban, M. & Swadener, B. (2017) 'Democratic accountability and contextualised systemic evaluation. A comment on the OECD initiative to launch an International Early Learning Study (IELS)'. International Critical Childhood Policy Studies, . | |
2017 | Moss, P., & Urban, M. (2017) 'The OECD’s International Early Learning Study: what happened next'. Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood, . | |
2016 | Urban, M. (2016) 'At Sea: what direction for critical early childhood research?'. Journal of Pedagogy, . | |
2016 | Urban, M. (2016) 'At sea: What direction for critical early childhood research?'. Journal of Pedagogy, 7 (1):107-121. | |
2016 | Jones, L., Urban, M., Osgood, J. & Holmes, R. (2016) 'Reimagining Quality in Early Childhood'. Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood, . | |
2016 | Urban, M. (2016) 'Editorial'. Journal of Pedagogy, . | |
2016 | Urban, M. (2016) 'Sufficiently well informed and seriously concerned? European Union policy responses to marginalisation, structural racism and institutionalised exclusion in early childhood'. Alberta Journal of Educational Research, . | |
2016 | Urban, M. (2016) 'Resisting ‘normal science’ in educational research'. Journal of Pedagogy, . | |
2015 | Urban, M. (2015) 'From ‘closing the gap’ to an ethics of affirmation. Reconceptualising the role of early childhood services in times of uncertainty'. European Journal of Education, . | |
2014 | Urban, M. (2014) 'Not solving problems, managing messes: competent systems in early childhood education and care'. Management in Education, . | |
2014 | Jones, L., Osgood, J., Urban, M., Holmes, M. & MacLure, M. (2014) 'Eu(rope): (Re)assembling, (Re)casting, and (Re)aligning Lines of De- and Re-territorialisation of Early Childhood'. International Review of Qualitative Research, . | |
2012 | Urban, M. (2012) 'Researching early childhood policy and practice: a critical ecology'. European Journal of Education, . | |
2012 | Urban, M. (2012) 'Editorial'. European Journal of Education, . | |
2012 | Urban, M., Vandenbroeck, M., Van Laere, K., Lazzari, A. & Peeters, J. (2012) 'Towards competent systems in early childhood education and care. Implications for policy and practice'. European Journal of Education, . | |
2010 | Urban, M. (2010) 'Rethinking Professionalism in Early Childhood: untested feasibilities and critical ecologies'. Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood, . | |
2008 | Urban, M. (2008) 'Dealing with uncertainty: challenges and possibilities for the early childhood profession'. European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, . | |
2008 | Urban, M. & Dalli, C. (2008) 'Professionalism in Early Childhood Education and Care'. European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, . |
Blog
Year | Publication | |
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2020 | Urban, Mathias & Moss, Peter (2020) A testing challenge for early childhood. BLOG Link | |
2015 | Urban, M. (2015) Cui bono? The myth of the closing gap and the need for radical reconceptualisation of early childhood research. BLOG |
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