The Routledge Handbook of Digital Literacies in Early Childhood

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Ola Erstad (University of Oslo, Norway) Rosie Flewitt (Institute of Education, University of London, UK)

The Routledge Handbook of Digital Literacies in Early Childhood

Ola Erstad (University of Oslo, Norway), Rosie Flewitt (Institute of Education, University of London, UK), Bettina Kümmerling-Meibauer (University of Tübingen, Germany) , Íris Susana Pereira

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Routledge
14 October 2024

Pre-school & kindergarten

Series: Routledge International Handbooks of Education

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 fulfils 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.

The Handbook explores six significant areas:

Part I presents an overview of research into young children’s digital literacy practices, touching on a range of theoretical, methodological and ethical approaches. Part II considers young children’s reading, writing and meaning-making when using digital media at home and in the wider community.

Part III offers an overview of key challenges for early childhood education presented by digital literacy, and discusses political positioning and curricula. Part IV focuses on the multimodal and multi-sensory textual landscape of contemporary literary practices, and how children learn to read and write with and across media. Part V considers how digital technologies both influence and are influenced by children’s online and offline social relationships. Part VI draws together themes from across the Handbook, to propose an agenda for future research into digital literacies in early childhood.

A timely resource identifying and exploring pedagogies designed to bolster young children’s digital and multimodal literacy practices, this key text will be of interest to early childhood educators, researchers and policy-makers.

Edited by: Ola Erstad (University of Oslo Norway), Rosie Flewitt (Institute of Education, University of London, UK), Bettina Kümmerling-Meibauer (University of Tübingen, Germany), Íris Susana Pereira
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 246mm, Width: 174mm,
Weight: 911g
ISBN: 9781032919515
ISBN 10: 1032919515
Series: Routledge International Handbooks of Education
Pages: 494
Publication Date: 14 October 2024
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Primary , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Ola Erstad is Professor and Head of the Department of Education, University of Oslo, Norway. Rosie Flewitt is Reader in Early Communication and Literacy, UCL Institute of Education, London, UK. Bettina Kümmerling-Meibauer is Professor in the German Department at the University of Tübingen, Germany. Íris Susana Pires Pereira is Assistant Professor at the Institute of Education of the University of Minho, Portugal.