ERIC Number: EJ681373
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2004-Feb-2
Pages: 21
Abstractor: Author
Reference Count: 21
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ISSN: ISSN-0031-3831
Ban the Computer, or Make It a Storytelling Machine. Bridging the Gap between the Children's Media Culture and Pre-School
Klerfelt, Anna
Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, v48 n1 p73-93 Feb 2004
Children today live in different cultural settings. The pre-school culture is one of them and the media culture outside the pre-school another. These cultures are in different ways characterised by opposite and often even conflicting traditions. This article shows how educators and children handle this dilemma by using interaction as a tool to bring changes into the discourse in an educational setting while making stories in the pre-school by means of the multimedia functions of the computer. The interactional processes from three observations are described. In the discussion a comparison with another study with a constructivist point of departure is made. The comparison between the two studies showed contrasting results. The use of a socio-cultural perspective in the presented project make the context and the community visible, while the other study with its underlying assumptions of individually constructed knowledge make context and community invisible.
Descriptors: Constructivism (Learning), Learning Theories, Foreign Countries, Preschool Children, Story Telling
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive
Education Level: Preschool Education
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Language: English
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