Nordic Childhoods in the Digital Age : Insights into Contemporary Research on Communication, Learning and Education (Paperback)

1. Introduction.  PART I: NORDIC PERSPECTIVES ON DIGITAL CHILDHOODS.  2. Child development in a digital age: epistemic practices in media societies.  3. Nordic children, media, and technologies: a contested ensemble.  4. Transformations and unresolved tensions: children, school, and technology.  5.　Bridging dichotomies between children, nature, and digital technologies.  PART II: FORMS OF COMMUNICATION, LITERACY, AND LEARNING.  6. Young children initiating and negotiating their digital literacy practices in their homes.  7. Digital storymaking: a powerful pedagogic approach in the Swedish preschool class.  8. Digital language contact between Icelandic and English.  9. Ideation, playful learning, and making in a Minecraft Virtual Learning Makerspace.  10. Guns and dolls: preschool children’s (im)material Christmas list activities.  11. Finnish teachers’ leadership narratives in a school’s makerspace.  PART III: CONCEPTIONS OF AGENCY AND ENGAGEMENT.  12. Young activists: engaging with global climate change in a networked society.  13. ‘I could smell the sound of winter’: children’s aesthetic experiences in their local forest through digital storying.  14. I hate little bits: the collaborative construction of children’s creative making in a public library makerspace.  15. Making digital play work: Danish children’s playful and creative production with digital media. 16. Rethinking boundaries: sociomaterial perspectives on digital technologies and early childhoods.  PART IV: COMMENTARIES: INTERNATIONAL REFLECTIONS.  17. Digital childhoods as nexus of practice.  18. Nordic childhoods and entertainment ‘supersystems’ in the digital age.  19. Ethical provocations for early childhood research.  20. Conclusions.

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