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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 today's 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 0-8 years, chapters explore the diversity of young children's literacy skills, practices and expertise across digital tools, technologies and media, in varied contexts, settings and countries.
The Handbook explores six significant areas:
A timely resource identifying and exploring pedagogies designed to bolster young children's 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 Kümmerling-Meibauer is Professor in the German Department at the University of Tübingen, Germany.
Íris Susana Pires Pereira is Assistant Professor at the Institute of Education of the University of Minho, Portugal.
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