An idea is in your body”

Technology and transformation in the early childhood classroom

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ID13005453
AuthorsDana Frantz Bentley (0000-0003-1585-0254, Buckingham Browne & Nichols, corresponding author)
Year2018
Volume8
Issue2
Pages162-172
Publication date2018-02-25
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueGlobal Studies of Childhood (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 2043-6106 • E-ISSN: 2043-6106
PublisherSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/2043610618760099
OpenAlexW2793319080
LanguageEN
Citations received1

What does it mean to engage in transformational learning with young children? In a time when “technology” is hallowed as all-important, how do we frame young children as empowered, critical thinkers around technologies, instead of just consumers? This article looks closely at a child-centered, emergent curricular process within an early childhood classroom. Framing the “having of ideas” as the essential technology in children’s lives, a teacher chronicles and analyzes children’s idea-having process and the pedagogies around it. Focusing on children’s talk, questioning, critique, and negotiation, this article shifts away from notions of traditional technologies, looking closely at the transformational learning inherent in children’s collective having-of-ideas

Developmental psychology · Early childhood · Early childhood education · Emerging technologies · Frame (networking · Framing (construction · Negotiation · Pedagogy · Social science · Sociology · Transformational leadership · Transformative learning · Child Development and Digital Technology · Children's Rights and Participation · Computer Science · Engineering · Literacy, Media, and Education · Psychology · Social Psychology

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