Digital Functionings and Capabilities: Primary School Children's Digital Practices in Spain During the COVID-19 Pandemic

• In Event: Examining Emerging Knowledges in Contemporary International and Global Contexts

Abstract

The paper examines the digital practices of children in Spain during the Covid-19 lock-down in 2020. As part of a larger European project, 10 children aged between 6 and 12 and their parents across Spain participated in this qualitative study inspired by the mosaic approach. Analysed with the capability approach, on one hand, we can see children developed digital “functionings,” i.e. new digital skills for their entertainment, socialisation, or learning, and also to manage risks and problems that arose from such practices. Further those acquired functionings remain in fact as new “capabilities” for the life after the pandemic, expanding their alternative choices.

Authors

• Mitsuko Matsumoto, Universidad Internacional de la Rioja
  Presenting Author

• Cristina Aliagas Marín, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
  Non-Presenting Author

• Cristina Correro, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
  Non-Presenting Author