In:
Australasian Journal of Early Childhood, SAGE Publications, Vol. 46, No. 1 ( 2021-03), p. 6-18
Abstract:
This paper reports from a pilot study investigating the ways digital documentation platforms are changing educators’ work in early childhood education. Digital documentation platforms are secure websites or application software, enabled by computer, smartphone, or tablet technologies, allowing educators to record observations of children’s learning as text or in visual forms, to which interpretations or commentary from educators, family members, and children are added. This paper examines how these platforms orient the ways educators see and articulate young children’s learning. Video stimulated recall interviews with educators (six in total) at four ECE sites across Australia and New Zealand were analysed. Key concepts are offered in relation to how digital platforms shape the learning that is seen by early childhood educators: tag-ability, trackability, completeness, and co-constitution. Each of these concepts is problematised in relation to contemporary ECE practices and the persuasiveness and ubiquity of the visual in discourses of documentation.
Type of Medium:
Online Resource
ISSN:
1836-9391
,
1839-5961
DOI:
10.1177/1836939120979066
Language:
English
Publisher:
SAGE Publications
Publication Date:
2021
detail.hit.zdb_id:
2526920-3
SSG:
5,3
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