ABSTRACT

The Routledge International Handbook of Learning with Technology in Early Childhood focuses specifically on the most cutting-edge, innovative and international approaches in the study of children’s use of and learning with digital technologies.

This edited volume is a comprehensive survey of methods in children’s technologies and contains a rich repertoire of studies from diverse fields and research, including both educational and developmental psychology, post-humanist literacy, applied linguistics, language and phenomenology and narrative approaches.

For ease of reference, the Handbook's 28 chapters are divided into four thematic sections:

  • introduction and opening reflections;
  • studies answering ontological questions, which theorize how children take on original identities in becoming literate with technologies;
  • studies answering epistemological questions, which focus on how children’s knowledge and learning are (co)constructed with a diverse range of technologies;
  • studies answering practice-related questions, which explore the resources and conditions that create the most powerful learning opportunities for children.

Expertly edited, this interdisciplinary and international compendium is an ideal introduction to such a diverse, multi-faceted field.

part II|108 pages

Studies answering ontological questions

chapter 4|13 pages

“Talk into my GoPro, I’m making a movie!”

Using digital ethnographic methods to explore children’s sociomaterial experiences in the woods

chapter 6|14 pages

Composing childhood cultures

Ethnography upside down

chapter 8|20 pages

Social media, video data and heritage language learning

Researching the transnational literacy practices of young children from immigrant families

chapter 10|12 pages

Stacking stories as method

Research in early years settings

part III|110 pages

Studies answering epistemological questions

chapter 11|13 pages

Researching young children’s play in the post-digital age

Questions of method

chapter 12|12 pages

From cutting out to cutting with

A materialist reframing of action and multimodality in children’s play and making

chapter 13|14 pages

Researching in the iWorld

From home to beyond

chapter 14|14 pages

Young children’s home technology use

Responsive qualitative methods for a sensitive topic

chapter 15|9 pages

The parent-child-app learning assemblage

Scaffolding early childhood learning through app use in the family home

chapter 16|16 pages

This is the stuff that identities are made of

Children learning with grandparents and other elders

chapter 17|13 pages

Technologies, affordances, children and embodied reading

A case for interdisciplinarity

chapter 18|17 pages

Materialities, multiliteracies and makerspaces

Design-based experiments in teacher/researcher collaborations

part IV|139 pages

Studies answering practice-related questions

chapter 19|13 pages

Research with children with special educational needs

A focus on Autism Spectrum Disorder

chapter 21|17 pages

Student generated visual narratives

Lived experiences of learning

chapter 22|13 pages

Arts-based methods

chapter 24|11 pages

When technology met real-life experiences

Science curriculum project with technology for low-income Latino preschoolers

chapter 25|13 pages

Reading in the digital age

Lessons learned and future opportunities

chapter 26|15 pages

Head mounted, chest mounted, tripod or roaming?

The methodological potentials of a GoPro camera and ontological possibilities for doing visual research with child participants differently