Young Children in Digital Society Now and into the Future

• Main Authors: Edwards, Susan, Straker, Leon
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford Routledge 2025; Taylor & Francis; Taylor & Francis Group
• Edition: 1
• Subjects: Children; Children-Australia-Social conditions-Case studies; citizenship; Computers & Technology; digital media; digital society; Early Childhood (incl. Preschool & Kindergarten); Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC); Education; Elementary; health and wellbeing; Information society; Information society-Australia-Case studies; Leon Straker; philosophy of technology; play and pedagogy; practices; Pre-school and kindergarten; Primary and middle schools; relationships; Schools and pre-schools; Society and Social Sciences; Susan Edwards; Teaching of a specific subject; technologies; Technology and children; Technology and children-Australia-Case studies; young children; Susan Edwards; philosophy of technology; health and wellbeing; citizenship; Leon Straker; play and pedagogy; practices; technologies; Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC); relationships; digital media; digital society; young children

Moving the conversation about young children and digital technologies beyond "good" or "bad", Susan Edwards and Leon Straker present an innovative perspective to educators, researchers, and communities on how to support young children to learn and thrive safely in a digital socie...

Table of Contents:

• Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of tables -- List of figures -- List of contributors -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Young children in digital society -- 2 Young children and digital technologies -- 3 Theorising digital practices -- 4 Researching digital practices -- 5 Supporting children's relationships with digital technologies -- 6 Promoting physical activity and supporting children's transitions with digital technologies -- 7 Play-based learning about the internet and online safety -- 8 Changing everyday pedagogical practices with digital technologies -- 9 Young children in digital society: now and into the future -- 10 New knowledge about young children in digital society -- Appendices -- Index