Call for Papers: “Unpacking digital childhoods: intersectional complexities of digitalization in early childhood education”
2024-12-18
We call for conceptual and empirical articles that critically unpack the interrelations of children and digital media in early childhood education to inform future directions in research, policy and practice to enable socially just digital access and experiences for children. We welcome contributions that draw together digital childhoods, intersectionality, digital inequalities and early childhood education, including but not exhaustive of the following areas:
- Intersectional dimensions (age, gender, race, ethnicity, socio-economic status, dis/ability etc.) of the experiences and impacts of digitalization in early childhood education
- Digitalization and early childhood pedagogies and practices
- Digitalization and the planning, documentation and tracking of young children’s learning and development
- Diverse young children’s own understandings of and agency in relation to digitalization in their educational lives
- Digitalization of early childhood education in the majority and minority world
- Affective and moral discourses around child-digital interactions in early childhood education
- Play and digitalization of young children’s lives in early childhood education
