Routledge International Handbook of Learning with Technology in Early Childhood

Natalia Kucirkova is Senior Research Fellow at University College London, UK. She graduated in Psychology, holds a Masters in Research Methods and a Doctorate in Education. She worked at the Oxford University Education Department, pursued a pre-doctoral fellowship at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and currently works as Senior Research Fellow at University College London, UK. Her research concerns innovative ways of supporting children’s book reading, digital literacy and exploring the role of personalisation in early years. Her publications appeared in Communication Disorders Quarterly, First Language, Computers & Education or Cambridge Journal of Education. She has been commended for her engagement with teachers and parents at a national and international level.Jennifer Roswell is Professor in the department of Teacher Education and Canada Research Chair in Multiliteracies at Brock University, Canada. Her research interests include: research in schools and communities doing multimodal work with children and youth; exploring how younger generations think and interact through technologies, videogames and immersive environments; and, longitudinal work in homes connecting artifacts and material worlds with literacy and identity practices. She is Co-Series Editor with Cynthia Lewis of the Routledge Expanding Literacies in Education Series and the Digital Literacy Editor for The Reading Teacher. Her latest books are The Routledge Handbook of Literacy Studies, co-edited with Kate Pahl and Generation Z: Zombies, Popular Culture, and Educating Youth, Co-Edited with Victoria Carrington, Esther Priyadharshini, and Rebecca Westrup.

• ForewordRosie Flewitt (University College of London, UK)Section One: Studying children’s contemporary play Cut it out! Materiality and Action in Children’s Play and ToymakingKaren Wohlwend & Jaye Johnson Thiel Indiana University, USA Chestcam tales: Exploring embodied ethnography with young childrenJackie Marsh, University of Sheffield, UK The development of childhood cultures Anne Haas Dyson, Illinois University, USASection Two: Studying specific groups of children Meeting the needs of students in a multilingual classroom: Linking Research to PracticeRahat Zaidi, University of Calgary, Canada Research with children with SENMelissa Allen, Lancaster University, UK Children from diverse backgroundsJim Anderson, British ColumbiaSection Three: Studying children’s practices at home and in lab settings Learning at home Laidlaw, O’Mara & Wong, Deakin University, Australia Community-based researchPam Whitty, University of New Brunswick, Canada Using magnetic resonance imaging in infants and young children and its implication for bridging the fields of Neuroscience and EducationNadine Gaab, Harvard University, USASection Four: Children’s global practices and movement through space "Talk into my GoPro, I’m making a movie!" Using digital ethnographic methods to explore children’s experiences in the woods Debra Harwood & Diane Collier, Brock University, Canada Deep hanging out: artifactual literacies and ethnographic methodsMargaret Somerville & Sarah Powell, Western Sydney University, Australia Getting away from the screen: the play affordances of Internet connected toys Donell Holloway, Edith Cowan University, Australia Section Five: Studying children’s learning with others This is the stuff that literacies are made of: Researching children’s learning with grandparents and other elders through ethnographic methodsRachel Heydon, & Xiaoxiao Du, University of Western Ontario, Canada Children and parents interacting together with an app support Kathy Sylva & Fiona Roberts, University of Oxford, UK Children learning in their familiesTisha Lewis, University of Georgia, USASection Six: Children’s learning through body, embodiment and haptics Embodiment Kerryn Dixon, Wits University, South Africa Technologies, affordances, children and (embodied) reading: a call for intedisciplinarityAnne Mangen, Trude Hoel, Thomas Moser, University of Oslo, Norway Valuing Signs of Learning: A Multimodal Perspective on Observation and Digital Documentation in Early Years Classrooms Kate Cowan, University College London, UKSection Seven: Studying reading and interacting on screen Eye-tracking and e-books Zsofia Takacs, Eötvös Loránd University, Hungray Lab-based studies of children’s reading on screenBrenna Hassinger and Rebecca Dore, University of Delaware, USA Visual methods for studying children’s interactions on screen Abi Hackett & Lucy Caton, Manchester Metorpolitan University, UKSection Eight: Children’s multiliteracies Who's helping who?: Young children seeking help when learning to writeAnnette Woods, Queensland University of Technology, Australia Children’s literature and critical literacy Peggy Albers, Georgia State University, USA, together with Vivian Vasquez and Jerry Harste Methodologies without methodology: (Re)imagining research practices when thinking with poststructural and posthumanist theoriesCandace Kuby, Missouri University, USASection Nine: Children’s drawing, mark-making and arts Studying science apps in low-income pre-schools Lena Lee, Miami University, USA Storying as a methodology in early years classroomsCathy Burnett and Guy Merchant, Sheffield Hallam University, UK Student generated visual narratives: lived experiences of learningNarelle Lemon, La Trobe University, Australia Arts-based methods Linda Knight, Queensland University of Technology, Australia