This article presents the qualitatively different ways as the preschool teachers' statements connected to physics and how the teaching of physics changes during four work team planning sessions.

The current issue presents 16 papers that explore play, fun, adventure, excitement and creativity in early childhood education in all its forms. The issue takes a broad exploration of the multitude of ways that intrinsic motivation is embedded in children’s learning and the ways in which educators can start with the embodied and emotional relationship with learning as described at the beginning of this Editorial.

This randomised controlled trial experimental study compared the effectiveness of using two different types of visualisation – self-constructed visualisation (SCV) and passively received visualisation (PRV) – to help children with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) solve mathematical word problems.