1. Young children’s agency with digital technologies
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Kate Highfield, Susan Grieshaber, Jacinta Bartlett, Leon Straker, Susan Edwards, Michael Henderson, Helen Skouteris, Andi Salamon, and Andrea Nolan
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digital technologies ,Health (social science) ,infants ,05 social sciences ,050301 education ,Public administration ,Education ,relational agency ,03 medical and health sciences ,0302 clinical medicine ,030225 pediatrics ,Agency (sociology) ,toddlers ,Life-span and Life-course Studies ,Psychology ,0503 education - Abstract
This paper examines the evidence of children's agency in research about infants, toddlers and technologies. It finds that an implicit reliance on technological determinism as a theoretical perspective for positioning technologies relative to young children's development tends to shape research in terms of understanding the impact of technologies on young children. Drawing on critical constructivism as a philosophical stance on technologies, this paper argues that children's agency with technologies may be further investigated in terms of practice architectures to better understand the social mediation of infant and toddler interactions and engagements with technologies.
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- 2021
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