This doctoral thesis aims to examine how preschool children and teachers interact with
tablets and apps, and contribute to a critical discussion about the role of digital technologies …

ISBN: 91-7346-496-1 omputer games and other forms of interactive media have been said
to narrow the gap between representation and represented phenomena. Elements like …

Technology educators often provide activities where pupils design programmed
technological solutions (PTS) with various programming materials for developing pupils' …

With science and digitalisation emphasised further in the new Swedish preschool
curriculum, there is a need to clarify teachers' role in educating children in and about these …

This paper describes analysis of teaching instances that are part of an in-service preschool
teachers programme about chemistry and physics in preschool. The aim is to develop …

The purpose of this study was to develop a program that incorporates computational thinking
into technology education classrooms and to investigate its effect on students. Software …

The overall aim of the present study is to study model-based teaching and the collaborative
inquiry learning of chemical processes and physical phenomena in preschool, with a …

Over the last decade, a Swedish research group has conducted several empirical studies in
the field of Early Childhood Education (ECE). These studies are examples of what is …

In this chapter we present and argue for a “third way” for early childhood education, beyond
the dichotomy of the social-pedagogical and the preparation-for-school approaches. On the …

Programming has recently become part of Swedish technology education; pupils should
now be able to analyse existing programmed technological solutions, and be able to design …