Digital Play as a Collaborative Space: Exploring Human-Nonhuman Interactions in a Korean Kindergarten Classroom

• In Event: Research in Progress Roundtable Session 3
  In Invited Roundtable: Early Childhood Education: Development, Curriculum, Digital Play, and Sense of Belonging (Table 4)

Abstract

This study explores digital play in a Korean kindergarten classroom, focusing on the interactions between children and digital devices. Children are surrounded by various digital technologies at both home and school. Through a New Materialism perspective, this study discovers the co-constitutive agency of human and non-human entities (e.g., children and digital devices). The teacher and 16 five-year-old children in Seoul participated in the study. Qualitative research methods including participant observation and interviews were employed.

Author

• Junghee Lee, Pennsylvania State University