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learning from the children

exploring preschool children's encounters with ICT at home

Institute of Education, University of Stirling, UK, christine.stephen{at}stir.ac.uk

Joanna McPake

Institute of Education, University of Stirling, UK

Lydia Plowman

Institute of Education, University of Stirling, UK

Sarah Berch-Heyman

Institute of Education, University of Stirling, UK

This article is an account of our attempts to understand preschool children's experiences with information and communication technologies (ICT) at home. Using case study data, we focus on what we can learn from talking directly to the children that might otherwise have been overlooked and on describing and evaluating the methods we adopted to ensure that we maximized the children's contributions to the research. By paying attention to the children's perspectives we have learned that they are discriminating users of ICT who evaluate their own performances, know what gives them pleasure and who differentiate between operational competence and the substantive activities made possible by ICT.

Key Words: preschool children • research methods • using ICT

Journal of Early Childhood Research, Vol. 6, No. 2, 99-117 (2008)
DOI: 10.1177/1476718X08088673


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