The Routledge International Handbook of Learning with Technology in Early Childhood

by Natalia Kucirkova (Editor), Jennifer Rowsell (Editor), Garry Falloon (Editor)

Overview

This book brings together innovative work happening in childhood research across disciplinary boundaries and across the world. It focuses specifically on the most cutting-edge, innovative methodological approaches in the study of children’s use and learning with digital technologies and children’s experiences of key 21^st century trends (e.g. immigration or multiculturalism). A true effort is made to have dialogues across diverse fields and contested fields of research (including educational psychology, post-humanist literacy, narrative approaches, developmental approaches).The book is a comprehensive survey of methods in the field of children’s technologies. The volume is a substantive and strategic collection of international approaches to early childhood and technologies. The authors reflect on what works and what doesn’t work in relation to specific innovative research methods.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781138308190
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	01/16/2020
Series:	Routledge International Handbooks of Education
Pages:	472
Product dimensions:	6.88(w) x 9.69(h) x (d)

About the Author

Natalia Kucirkova is Senior Research Fellow at University College London, UK. She graduated in Psychology, holds a Masters in Research Methods and a Doctorate in Education. She worked at the Oxford University Education Department, pursued a pre-doctoral fellowship at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and currently works as Senior Research Fellow at University College London, UK. Her research concerns innovative ways of supporting children’s book reading, digital literacy and exploring the role of personalisation in early years. Her publications appeared in Communication Disorders Quarterly, First Language, Computers & Education or Cambridge Journal of Education. She has been commended for her engagement with teachers and parents at a national and international level.

Jennifer Roswell is Professor in the department of Teacher Education and Canada Research Chair in Multiliteracies at Brock University, Canada. Her research interests include: research in schools and communities doing multimodal work with children and youth; exploring how younger generations think and interact through technologies, videogames and immersive environments; and, longitudinal work in homes connecting artifacts and material worlds with literacy and identity practices. She is Co-Series Editor with Cynthia Lewis of the Routledge Expanding Literacies in Education Series and the Digital Literacy Editor for The Reading Teacher. Her latest books are The Routledge Handbook of Literacy Studies, co-edited with Kate Pahl and Generation Z: Zombies, Popular Culture, and Educating Youth, Co-Edited with Victoria Carrington, Esther Priyadharshini, and Rebecca Westrup.

Table of Contents

Foreword

Rosie Flewitt (University College of London, UK)

Section One: Studying children’s contemporary play

1. Cut it out! Materiality and Action in Children’s Play and Toymaking

Karen Wohlwend & Jaye Johnson Thiel Indiana University, USA

2. Chestcam tales: Exploring embodied ethnography with young children

Jackie Marsh, University of Sheffield, UK

3. The development of childhood cultures

Anne Haas Dyson, Illinois University, USA

Section Two: Studying specific groups of children

4. Meeting the needs of students in a multilingual classroom: Linking Research to Practice

Rahat Zaidi, University of Calgary, Canada

5. Research with children with SEN

Melissa Allen, Lancaster University, UK

6. Children from diverse backgrounds

Jim Anderson, British Columbia

Section Three: Studying children’s practices at home and in lab settings

7. Learning at home

Laidlaw, O’Mara & Wong, Deakin University, Australia

8. Community-based research

Pam Whitty, University of New Brunswick, Canada

9. Using magnetic resonance imaging in infants and young children and its implication for bridging the fields of Neuroscience and Education

Nadine Gaab, Harvard University, USA

Section Four: Children’s global practices and movement through space

10. "Talk into my GoPro, I’m making a movie!" Using digital ethnographic methods to explore children’s experiences in the woods

Debra Harwood & Diane Collier, Brock University, Canada

11. Deep hanging out: artifactual literacies and ethnographic methods

Margaret Somerville & Sarah Powell, Western Sydney University, Australia

12. Getting away from the screen: the play affordances of Internet connected toys

Donell Holloway, Edith Cowan University, Australia

Section Five: Studying children’s learning with others

13. This is the stuff that literacies are made of: Researching children’s learning with grandparents and other elders through ethnographic methods

Rachel Heydon, & Xiaoxiao Du, University of Western Ontario, Canada

14. Children and parents interacting together with an app support

Kathy Sylva & Fiona Roberts, University of Oxford, UK

15. Children learning in their families

Tisha Lewis, University of Georgia, USA

Section Six: Children’s learning through body, embodiment and haptics

16. Embodiment

Kerryn Dixon, Wits University, South Africa

17. Technologies, affordances, children and (embodied) reading: a call for intedisciplinarity

Anne Mangen, Trude Hoel, Thomas Moser, University of Oslo, Norway

18. Valuing Signs of Learning: A Multimodal Perspective on Observation and Digital Documentation in Early Years Classrooms

Kate Cowan, University College London, UK

Section Seven: Studying reading and interacting on screen

19. Eye-tracking and e-books

Zsofia Takacs, Eötvös Loránd University, Hungray

20. Lab-based studies of children’s reading on screen

Brenna Hassinger and Rebecca Dore, University of Delaware, USA

21. Visual methods for studying children’s interactions on screen

Abi Hackett & Lucy Caton, Manchester Metorpolitan University, UK

Section Eight: Children’s multiliteracies

22. Who's helping who?: Young children seeking help when learning to write

Annette Woods, Queensland University of Technology, Australia

23. Children’s literature and critical literacy

Peggy Albers, Georgia State University, USA, together with Vivian Vasquez and Jerry Harste

24. Methodologies without methodology: (Re)imagining research practices when thinking with poststructural and posthumanist theories

Candace Kuby, Missouri University, USA

Section Nine: Children’s drawing, mark-making and arts

25. Studying science apps in low-income pre-schools

Lena Lee, Miami University, USA

26. Storying as a methodology in early years classrooms

Cathy Burnett and Guy Merchant, Sheffield Hallam University, UK

27. Student generated visual narratives: lived experiences of learning

Narelle Lemon, La Trobe University, Australia

28. Arts-based methods

Linda Knight, Queensland University of Technology, Australia