Teaching and Learning with Digital Resources in Preschool/Kindergarten
A special issue of Education Sciences (ISSN 2227-7102).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 January 2025 | Viewed by 868
Special Issue Editors
Interests: digital resources in education; social semiotics; designs for learning; teaching and learning in math; science and language; computational thinking
Interests: digital resources in education; social semiotics; designs for learning; multilingualism; minority languages; translanguaging; robot programming and computational thinking
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
In general comment No. 25 (2021) by the United Nations on children’s rights in relation to the digital environment, it is stated that even though the digital environment is not always designed for children, it often plays a significant role in their lives. Early childhood education is an important space for nurturing democratic values as well as promoting equity. Teaching and learning with digital resources in education is an area of interest that has been studied in various ways. In this Special Issue, the focus lies on teaching and learning with digital resources in preschool and kindergarten.
The aim and scope of this Special Issue is to gather studies that focus on education with younger children (aged 1–6), where various forms of digital resources are used in a variety of ways. Digital resources are not limited to screens; instead, research on robotics, digital microscopes, digital cameras, etc., are also encouraged.
Themes that are welcome to this Special Issue include:
-Empirical studies on preschool children’s interaction with digital resources;
-Empirical studies on teachers’ use of digital resources in preschool, kindergarten or childcare;
-Studies on teachers’ experiences and perceptions of digital resources in preschool, kindergarten or childcare, e.g., interview studies or focus groups;
-Research overviews/reviews on digital resources in preschool;
-Netnographic studies on digital resources in preschool;
-Studies on education in subjects such as Mathematics, Language, Coding, Science, Arts and Sports with digital resources.
Dr. Susanne Kjällander
Dr. Petra Petersen
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- preschool
- kindergarten
- digital resources
- teaching
- learning
- education
- young children
- teacher
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