Book description

<P><EM>The Routledge International Handbook of Learning with Technology in Early Childhood</EM> focuses specifically on the most cutting-edge, innovative and international approaches in the study of children?s use of and learning with digital technologies. </P> <P></P> <P>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.</P> <P></P> <P>For ease of reference, the Handbook's 28 chapters are divided into four thematic sections:</P> <UL> <P> <LI>introduction and opening reflections;</LI> <LI>studies answering ontological questions, which theorize how children take on original identities in becoming literate with technologies;</LI> <LI>studies answering epistemological questions, which focus on how children?s knowledge and learning are (co)constructed with a diverse range of technologies;</LI> <LI>studies answering practice-related questions, which explore the resources and conditions that create the most powerful learning opportunities for children.</LI> <P></P></UL> <P></P> <P>Expertly edited, this interdisciplinary and international compendium is an ideal introduction to such a diverse, multi-faceted field.</P>

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