Digital technologies in
preschool education
The interplay between interactive
whiteboards and teachers’ teaching practices
MARYAM BOURBOUR
Education
Örebro Studies in Education 62 I
ÖREBRO 2020ÖREBRO STUDIES IN EDUCATION 62 2020
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maryam bourbour works as a lecturer at the early child-hood teacher education program at Dalarna University. She has been a doctoral candidate at the School of Humanities, Education and Social Sciences, Örebro University. She has long experience of working with how the use of technologies can contribute to early childhood education.
The ways children learn from and by digital technologies have been widely studied. However, there is relatively little research on how digital technologies interplay with teachers’ teaching. This study is based on three data sets including interviews with preschool teachers and video observations of their teaching using Interactive whiteboard (IWB). The findings of this study provide rich details about how preschool teachers use a particular digital technology, IWB, in their teaching practices. By exploring preschool teachers’ reasoning about the embedding of IWB into their teaching practices, their scaffolding actions and how their actions are mediated by IWB, this thesis contributes to our knowledge about how preschool teachers use digital technologies in their teaching practices. This can have significance for other studies exploring digital technologies in educational settings. Furthermore, it can contribute to develop early childhood education since early interventions, such as the ways preschool teachers support children, are particularly crucial for children’s learning and development in early years and later on in life.
issn 1404-9570 isbn 978-91-7529-329-5
