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 fulfills 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. + Info: Routledge
Table of Contents
Introduction: The Emerging Field of Digital Literacies in Early Childhood (Ola Erstad, Rosie Flewitt, Bettina Kümmerling-Meibauer and Íris Susana Pires Pereira)
Part I: Perspectives on Digital Literacies in Early Childhood
1 – Researching the Digital Literacy and Multimodal Practices of Young Children: A European Agenda for Change (Jackie Marsh)
2 – Theorizing Digital Literacy Practices in Early Childhood (Ola Erstad and Julia Gillen)
3 – Researching Digital Literacy Practices in Early Childhood: Challenges, Complexities and Imperatives (David Poveda)
4 – Ethics and Researching Young Children’s Digital Literacy Practices (Rosie Flewitt)
5 – Comparative Global Knowledge about the Use of Digital Technologies for Learning among Young Children (Sonia Livingstone, Sun Sun Lim, Anulekha Nandi and Becky Pham)
Part II: Young Children’s Digital Literacy Practices in Homes, Communities and Informal Learning Spaces
6 – Young Children’s Digital Literacy Practices in Homes: Past, Present and Future Research Directions (Kristiina Kumpulainen and Julia Gillen)
7 – Reconceptualizing the Home of Digital Childhood (Marta Morgade, Cristina Aliagas and David Poveda)
8 – Older Siblings as Mediators of Infants’ and Toddlers’ (Digital) Media Use (Andra Siibak and Elyna Nevski)
9 – Safety (and Security) Issues in Young Children’s Digital Literacy Practices at Home (Stéphane Chaudron, Rosanna Di Gioia and Monica Gemo)
10 – Children’s Divergent Practices and Access to Digital Media in Home, School and Neighbourhood Communities (Mastin Prinsloo)
11 – «You know what’s glitching?»: Emergent Digital Literacies in Video Game Play (Edward Rivero and Kris D. Gutiérrez)
Part III: Young Children’s Digital Literacy Practices in Early Education Settings
12 – Digital and Media Literacy-related Policies and Teachers’ Attitudes (Christine W. Trültzsch-Wijnen, Sascha Trültzsch-Wijnen and Kjartan Ólafsson)
13 – Pedagogical Approaches to Digital Literacy in Early Years Education (Stavroula Kontovourki and Eufimia Tafa)
14 – Inclusivity and Young Children’s Digital Literacy Practices in Early Education (Grace Oakley)
15 – Young Children’s Digital Play in Early Childhood Settings: Curriculum, Pedagogy and Teachers’ Knowledge (Elizabeth Wood, Joce Nuttall, Susan Edwards and Sue Grieshaber)
16 – Remixing Emergent Literacy Education: Cross-age, Plurilingual, Multimedia Adventures in Narrative Teaching and Learning (Heather Lotherington)
17 – Posthuman Theory as a Tool to Explore Literacy Desirings: Sara-Taylor-iPad-Book Becoming in Writers’ Studio (Candace R. Kuby and Tara Gutshall Rucker)
Part IV: Reading and Writing on Screen
18 – Young Children’s Writing in the 21st Century: The Challenge of Moving from Paper to Screen (Clare Dowdall)
19 – Digital Reading in the Early Years: Expertise, Engagement and Learning (Íris Susana Pires Pereira, Cristina Vieira da Silva, Mônica Daisy Vieira de Araújo and Maria Manuel Borges)
20 – Children’s Reading in the Digital Age: A Research Summary on Children’s Digital Books (Natalia Kucirkova)
21 – The Role of Moving Images in Young Children’s Literacy Practices (Margaret Mackey)
22 – 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)
Part V: Negotiating Digital Literacy Lives in Hybrid Virtual and Physical Spaces
23 – Young Children’s e-books as Digital Spaces for Multimodal Composing, Translanguaging, and Intercultural Sharing (Mary E. Miller and Deborah Wells Rowe)
24 – Virtual Play – Developing a Baroque Sensibility (Cathy Burnett and Guy Merchant)
25 – The Quantified Child: Discourses and Practices of Dataveillance in Different Life Stages (Giovanna Mascheroni and Donell Holloway)
26 – Minecraft ‘Worldness’ in Family Life: Children’s Digital Play and Socio-material Literacy Practices (Michael Dezuanni)
27 – Digital Literacy Practices in Children’s Everyday Life. Participating in On-screen and Off-screen Activities (Pål Aarsand and Helen Melander Bowden)
28 – P(l)aying Online: Toys, Apps, and Young Consumers on Transmedia Playgrounds (Karen E. Wohlwend)
29 – Webs of Relationships: Young Children’s Engagement with Web Searching (Susan Danby and Christina Davidson)
Part VI: Emergent Themes and Future Visions
30 – 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)
31 – Emergent Challenges for the Understanding of Children’s Digital Literature (Bettina Kümmerling-Meibauer)
32 – Researching Children’s Play and Identity in the Digital Age: A Holistic Approach (Becky Parry and Fiona Scott)
33 – Taking a Wide-Angled View of Contemporary Digital Literacy (Amélie Lemieux and Jennifer Rowsell)