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Davidson, Christina; Given, Lisa M.; Danby, Susan; Thorpe, Karen – Australasian Journal of Early Childhood, 2014
Much of what is written about digital technologies in preschool contexts focuses on young children's acquisition of skills rather than their meaning-making during use of technologies. In this paper, we consider how the viewing of a YouTube video was used by a teacher and children to produce shared understandings about it. Conversation analysis of…
Descriptors: Video Technology, Electronic Publishing, Web Sites, Preschool Education
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Davidson, Christina; Danby, Susan; Ekberg, Stuart; Thorpe, Karen – Journal of Early Childhood Literacy, 2021
Many studies that examine parent-child interactions while reading digital texts focus on the reading of e-books. Rather less is known about parent-child interactions and reading aloud of other screen texts that occur during young children's everyday use of digital technologies at home. This article presents the findings from a conversation…
Descriptors: Oral Reading, Parent Child Relationship, Interaction, Electronic Publishing
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Ólafsdóttir, Sara Margrét; Danby, Susan; Einarsdóttir, Jóhanna; Theobald, Maryanne – European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, 2017
In preschool settings, children challenge the adult-initiated rules in many ways during their play activities with peers. This ethnographic study with children aged 3-5 years was built on Corsaro's sociology of childhood construct that views children as agents and active participants in preschool society. The study is conducted in two preschools…
Descriptors: Preschool Education, Preschool Children, Standards, Ethnography
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Danby, Susan; Evaldsson, Ann-Carita; Melander, Helen; Aarsand, Pål – British Journal of Educational Technology, 2018
Collaboration is an important aspect of social activity associated with young children's digital gameplay. Children organise their participation as they communicate with and support one another, through sharing knowledge and problem-solving strategies, displaying their expertise, encouraging others and creatively exploring possibilities for…
Descriptors: Cooperation, Video Games, Young Children, Play
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Houen, Sandy; Danby, Susan; Farrell, Ann; Thorpe, Karen – International Journal of Early Childhood, 2016
Affording children's agency is an important pedagogical underpinning of a high-quality early childhood program. Yet little is known about how teachers' interactions create spaces for children's agency. From the perspectives of ethnomethodology and conversation analysis, this paper investigates how teachers and children navigate agency through…
Descriptors: Teacher Student Relationship, Preschool Children, Preschool Teachers, Classroom Communication
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Theobald, Maryanne; Danby, Susan; Einarsdóttir, Jóhanna; Bourne, Jane; Jones, Desley; Ross, Sharon; Knaggs, Helen; Carter-Jones, Claire – Education Sciences, 2015
Play as a learning practice increasingly is under challenge as a valued component of early childhood education. Views held in parallel include confirmation of the place of play in early childhood education and, at the same time, a denigration of the role of play in favor for more teacher-structured and formal activities. As a consequence,…
Descriptors: Play, Children, Attitude Measures, Preschool Children