As fast-evolving technologies transform everyday communication and literacy practices, many young children find themselves immersed in multiple digital media from birth. Such rapid technological change has consequences for the development of early literacy, and the ways in which parents and educators are able to equip today’s young citizens for a digital future. This seminal Handbook fulfils an urgent need to consider how digital technologies are impacting the lives and learning of young children; and how childhood experiences of using digital resources can serve as the foundation for present and future development. Considering children aged 0–8 years, chapters explore the diversity of young children’s literacy skills, practices and expertise across digital tools, technologies and media, in varied contexts, settings and countries. The Handbook explores six significant areas: Part I presents an overview of research into young children’s digital literacy practices, touching on a range of theoretical, methodological and ethical approaches. Part II considers young children’s reading, writing and meaning-making when using digital media at home and in the wider community. Part III offers an overview of key challenges for early childhood education presented by digital literacy, and discusses political positioning and curricula. Part IV focuses on the multimodal and multi-sensory textual landscape of contemporary literary practices, and how children learn to read and write with and across media. Part V considers how digital technologies both influence and are influenced by children’s online and offline social relationships. Part VI draws together themes from across the Handbook, to propose an agenda for future research into digital literacies in early childhood. A timely resource identifying and exploring pedagogies designed to bolster young children’s digital and multimodal literacy practices, this key text will be of interest to early childhood educators, researchers and policy-makers.
Author(s): Ola Erstad, Rosie Flewitt, Bettina Kümmerling-Meibauer, Íris Susana Pires Pereira
Series: Routledge International Handbook
Publisher: Routledge/Taylor & Francis Group
Year: 2020
Language: English
Pages: 473
Tags: Early Childhood Education: Computer-Assisted Instruction, Education: Effect Of Technological Innovations On, Children: Effect Of Technological Innovations On, Computers And Children, Child Development, Children: Books And Reading
Researching the digital literacy and multimodal practices of young children : a European agenda for change / Jackie Marsh --
Theorizing digital literacy practices in early childhood / Ola Erstad and Julia Gillen --
Researching digital literacy practices in early childhood : challenges, complexities and imperatives / David Poveda --
Ethics and researching young children's digital literacy practices / Rosie Flewitt --
Comparative global knowledge about the use of digital technologies for learning among young children / Sonia Livingstone, Sun Sun Lim, Anulekha Nandi and Becky Pham --
Young children's digital literacy practices in homes : past, present and future research directions / Kristiina Kumpulainen and Julia Gillen --
Reconceptualizing the home of digital childhood / Marta Morgade, Cristina Aliagas and David Poveda --
Older siblings as mediators of infants' and toddlers' (digital) media use / Andra Siibak and Elyna Nevski --
Safety (and security) issues in young children's digital literacy practices at home / Stéphane Chaudron, Rosanna Di Gioia and Monica Gemo --
Children's divergent practices and access to digital media in home, school and neighbourhood communities / Mastin Prinsloo --
"You know what's glitching?" : emergent digital literacies in video game play / Edward Rivero and Kris D. Gutiérrez --
Digital and media literacy-related policies and teachers' attitudes / Christine W. Trültzsch-Wijnen, Sascha Trültzsch-Wijnen and Kjartan Olafsson --
Pedagogical approaches to digital literacy in early years education / Stavroula Kontovourki and Eufimia Tafa --
Inclusivity and young children's digital literacy practices in early education / Grace Oakley --
Young children's digital play in early childhood settings : curriculum, pedagogy and teachers' knowledge / Elizabeth Wood, Joce Nuttall, Susan Edwards and Sue Grieshaber --
Remixing emergent literacy education : cross-age, plurilingual, multimedia adventures in narrative teaching and learning / Heather Lotherington --
Posthuman theory as a tool to explore literacy desirings : Sara-Taylor-iPad-book becoming in writers' studio / Candace R. Kuby and Tara Gutshall Rucker --
Young children's writing in the 21st century : the challenge of moving from paper to screen / Clare Dowdall --
Digital reading in the early tears : expertise, engagement and learning / Íris Susana Pires Pereira, Cristina Vieira da Silva, Mônica Daisy Vieira de Araújo and Maria Manuel Borges --
Children's reading in the digital age : a research summary on children's digital books / Natalia Kucirkova --
The role of moving images in young children's literacy practices / Margaret Mackey --
Availability and quality of storybook apps across five less widely used languages / Adriana G. Bus, Trude Hoel, Cristina Aliagas Marin, Margrethe Jernes, Ofra Korat, Charles L. Mifsud and Jan van Collie Young children's e-books as digital spaces for multimodal composing, translanguaging, and intercultural sharing / Mary E. Miller and Deborah Wells Rowe --
Virtual play : developing a baroque sensibility / Cathy Burnett and Guy Merchant --
The quantified child : discourses and practices of dataveillance in different life stages / Giovanna Mascheroni and Donell Holloway --
Minecraft 'worldness' in family life : children's digital play and socio-material literacy practices / Michael Dezuanni --
Digital literacy practices in children's everyday life : participating in on-screen and off-screen activities / Pål Aarsand and Helen Melander Bowden --
P(l)aying online : toys, apps, and young consumers on transmedia playgrounds / Karen E. Wohlwend --
Webs of relationships : young children's engagement with Web searching / Susan Danby and Christina Davidson --
Future pedagogical approaches to digital and multimodal practice in early childhood education / Anne Jyrkiäinen, Kirsi-Liisa Koskinen-Sinisalo, Pirjo Kulju, Reijo Kupiainen, Marita Mäkinen, and Angela Wiseman --
Emergent challenges for the understanding of children's digital literature / Bettina Kümmerling-Meibauer --
Researching children's play and identity in the digital age : a holistic approach / Becky Parry and Fiona Scott --
Taking a wide-angled view of contemporary digital literacy / Amélie Lemieux and Jennifer Rowsell.
