This paper discusses findings from online surveys completed by parents of 0–3-year-old children in Norway, Portugal and Japan concerning their young children’s use touchscreen technology. The study investigated parental practices, views perspectives related to digital practices explored these relation wider cultural discourses around early childhood the participant countries. adopted Bronfenbrenner’s ecological systems theory inform questionnaire interpretative data analysis how parents’...

Background:This paper presents findings from an on-going international study of Early Childhood (EC) teachers' and children's use internet-connected toys (IoToys) to understand possibilities for developing cognitive capacities (e.g., creativity, inquiry, engineering design thinking).Material methods:The employed a Design Based Research (DBR) method, where teachers intentionally plan deliver technologically constructed Science Technology Engineering Mathematics (STEM) experiences...

This paper presents findings from an on-going international study of early childhood educators' and children's use new digital technologies, such as the Internet Toys (IoToys) pedagogic interactions which occur when these artefacts are integrated into classrooms. Based on qualitative methodology, data have been collected in four countries: Australia, Norway, Scotland England. Data collection includes observations with IoToys (written video), multimedia messages (digital images, videos),...

This Australian study examines whether and how technologies such as Artificially Intelligent (AI) toys in a home-based setting might socially emotionally support children with diverse needs through play. Building on the concept of ‘emotional capital', employing design-based research approach, parents during COVID-19 lockdown periods 2020 intentionally used robotic to engage their additional play experiences. The data from both parents’ children’s ( n = 5) Zoom interviews, digital...

Abstract Educational institutions have a responsibility to ensure that all children receive care and equal possibilities for development, independent of their linguistic cultural background. However, there is little knowledge about how kindergartens welcoming inspiring place both transnational migrants, Indigenous children, from the majority population. Through semiotic landscape analysis two in Northern Norway, this article contributes gap. Our starting point educational spaces are social,...

Abstract This study examines whether the Internet of Toys (IoToys) (de)limits children's make‐believe play and functionality manipulatives offered by IoToys serve as motivational pleasure (tactile, virtual visual) for children to engage in play. Combining Piagetian Vygotskian ideas a unity cognition social context, we consider conduit symbolic actions that leads Qualitative methodology was employed using observations young at home when interacting with (total n = 10 families) from England (...

This paper will discuss the beliefs and experiences of early childhood educators across three countries, England, Norway Greece, in relation to use touchscreen technology with youngest children their settings. Building on previous research which explored parents' perspectives, this study now extends investigation who play a key role children's learning development. A detailed online survey was implemented countries based Bronfenbrenner's ecological framework focus teaching philosophy....

(2020). Technology-integrated pedagogical practices: a look into evidence-based teaching and coherent learning for young children. European Early Childhood Education Research Journal: Vol. 28, Digital Childhoods, Multimodality STEM, pp. 163-166.

Denne studien er en systematisk undersøkelse av hvordan profesjonsfaglig digital kompetanse fremgår læringsutbyttebeskrivelser i obligatoriske emner på barnehagelærerutdanningene Norge. Vi har gjennomført innholdsanalyse emneplaner til 15 forskjellige studieprogrammer for barnehagelærerutdanning, noe som resultert analyse 100 emneplanbeskrivelser. Til tross at nasjonale retningslinjer slår fast skal vektlegges barnehagelærerutdanninger, behandles dette området først og fremst et ferdighets-...

The aim of this article is to investigate ways that young children interact with touchscreen devices during museum visits and the process making a digital story in their kindergarten classrooms related these visits. Drawing on children’s communicative embodied experiences notion wayfaring lines movement, I discuss stories become visual movement time place, through story, wayfarers. Data include pictures, videos, drawings story. In particular, argue way back can be seen as connecting with,...

The significance of family involvement in Early Childhood Education and Care has gained considerable attention within national reforms regulations across various countries. This study aims to examine the early childhood education curriculum frameworks pertaining participation Portugal Norway. By analysing these two countries, this explores distinct approaches they adopt towards Care, considering their unique cultural policy contexts. Through content analysis from both nations, primary themes...

This article describes a study that aimed to investigate how children perform and document Land Art in local places near their kindergarten the visualization of experiences through drawings back kindergarten. Documentation is important for kindergarten’s planning evaluation pedagogical practices activities. Studies have shown using visual methods, such as photographs created by themselves, provide information related children’s perspectives, actions attitudes way communicate make meaning...

Abstract Nested in the socio-cultural theory and related concepts of dialogue thinking (Mercer & Littleton, 2007) dialogic teaching classrooms Howe, 2012), this study explored knowledge technology as dynamic meaning-making processes Norwegian early childhood education care (ECEC) settings. Group-reflections from thirteen educators their ontological beliefs concerning digital ECEC were analysed with a theory-driven thematic analysis. The analysis highlights two tensions between individual...