ERIC Number: EJ1459773
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2024
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ISSN: ISSN-2196-3673
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Transformations of Digital to Analogue: Children Bringing Popular Culture Artefacts and Media into Swedish School-Age Educare
Lars Wallner; Magnus Jansson
International Journal for Research on Extended Education, v12 n1 p59-71 2024
This article explores children's use of digital popular culture as boundary objects, and the transmedial boundary work done in Swedish school-age educare (SAEC) centres. As children bring their experiences of digital media into everyday SAEC practices, they influence, and are influenced by, others around them, children as well as adults. Through field observations conducted in a Swedish SAEC centre in southern Sweden, we collected ethnographic field data, together with two groups of children in Years 2-3 (aged 8-9) and staff. In total, 47 children and 7 staff members took part in the study. Using Star and Griesemer's (1989) theory on boundary objects, we analyse how children's digital popular-cultural interests are brought into, and made relevant to, SAEC practice. The results show that children's use of digital media is transformed in SAEC activities into analogue content -- drawing, dancing, etc. -- and that these activities are ways for children to establish social relations by displaying and sharing their interests. These results have impact for the continued development of extended education, the use of digital media and its value for SAEC, as well as teachers' ongoing practice.
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Popular Culture, Mass Media Use, Early Childhood Education, Classroom Environment, Children, Teacher Attitudes, Early Childhood Teachers, Student Interests, Learning Activities, Influence of Technology, Interpersonal Relationship, Cultural Capital, Dialogs (Language), Interpersonal Communication, Student Attitudes, Mass Media Effects
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Early Childhood Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Sweden
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