Abstract

QUEIROZ, Manuela Azevêdo  and  ROCHA, Maria Silvia Pinto de Moura Librandi da. Through a tablet screen: digital technologies for Early Childhood Education. Rev. Diálogo Educ. [online]. 2021, vol.21, n.71, pp.1941-1966.  Epub Jan 26, 2022. ISSN 1981-416X.  https://doi.org/10.7213/1981-416x.21.071.ao05.

This article gathers the results of a research developed under the Cultural-Historical Theory with the objective of observing the use of a tablet to help children (re)signify and (re)interpret their experiences in the school context. Nineteen children of 4-5 years old who go to a public school participated in the research; and the researcher asked them to use the tablet to take photos of what they liked the most in the school. After that, in interview sessions, the children were invited to select their favorite photos. The study was based on observation, production of photographs and interviews. There were eleven sessions to photograph and seven sessions to choose the photos, all of them recorded on camera. The construction of the empirical material allowed us to confirm the power the activity with the tablet has to (re)signify and (re)interpret the participants' school context; thus, affecting their relationship with the environment, the device itself and the peers.

Keywords : Early Childhood Education; Tablet; Cultural-Historical Theory.

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