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The Routledge Handbook of Digital Literacies in Early Childhood

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 todays 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 08 years, chapters explore the diversity of young childrens 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 childrens digital literacy practices, touching on a range of theoretical, methodological and ethical approaches.

Part II considers young childrens 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 childrens 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 childrens digital and multimodal literacy practices, this key text will be of interest to early childhood educators, researchers and policy-makers.

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 Kmmerling-Meibauer is Professor in the German Department at the University of Tbingen, Germany.

ris Susana Pires Pereira is Assistant Professor at the Institute of Education of the University of Minho, Portugal.

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The Routledge Handbook
of Digital Literacies in
Early Childhood

Edited by Ola Erstad, Rosie Flewitt, Bettina
Kmmerling-Meibauer and ris Susana Pires Pereira

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Pl Aarsand is a Professor at the Department of Education and Lifelong Learning, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway. His research interest concerns childrens digital technology practices and phenomena such as gaming, playing, identity work, digital literacy, as well as research methodological questions concerning studies of children.

Cristina Aliagas is Juan de la Cierva Postdoctoral Researcher at Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain, specializing in ethnography of literacy and the study of literary identities in children and youth cultures. This anthropological-driven research informs other in-school collaborative projects seeking the integration of digital literacies in literary education, including initial teacher education.

Mnica Daisy Vieira Arajo is Adjunct Professor at the Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil, where she is a Researcher at the Literacy, Reading and Writing Centre (CEALE/UFMG). Her studies focus on digital written culture, digital literacy, digital literary reading and teacher training.

Maria Manuel Borges is Associate Professor at the University of Coimbra in Portugal and a co-coordinator of the Research Group on Digital Humanities (CEIS20). Her research focuses on open access, bibliometrics and scholarly communication, e-books and information literacy.

Cathy Burnett is Professor of Literacy and Education at Sheffield Hallam University, UK, where she leads the Language and Literacy Education Research Group. Her research interests focus on relationships between technology, literacy and education. She is President Elect for the United Kingdom Literacy Association.

Adriana G. Bus is Professor in Reading Socialization at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Her research interests include storybook reading, e-reading, reading promotion and differential susceptibility in reading acquisition.