The Routledge International Handbook of Playing and Learning with Technology in Early Childhood

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.

Natalia Kucirkova is Professor in Early Childhood Education and Development at University of Stavanger, Norway. Her research concerns innovative ways of supporting children’s book reading, digital literacy and exploring the role of personalization in early years. She has been commended for her engagement with teachers and parents at a national and international level.

Jennifer Rowsell

is Professor in the department of Teacher Education and Canada Research Chair in Multiliteracies at Brock University, Canada. Her current research interests include applying multimodal, arts-based practices with youth across formal and informal contexts; expanding research methodologies and theories of literacy for digital, immersive, and game-based research; and, longitudinal research with families examining ways that literacy and multimodal practices mediate identities.

Garry Falloon is the Fairfax Foundation Chair in Education and Professor of Digital Learning in the Department of Educational Studies at Macquarie University, Australia. His research interests include mobile and online learning, digital learning in primary and middle schools, pedagogy and assessment in digitally supported innovative learning environments, and educational research methods.