Andrew Manches is supporting on the Special Issue Call for Papers: “Unpacking digital childhoods: intersectional complexities of digitalisation in early childhood education” (Global Education Review, Mercy College, New York).
Guest Editors: Busra Kumru, Istanbul University – Cerrahpaşa; Marlies Kustatscher, The University of Edinburgh; Andrew Manches, The University of Edinburgh; Sabina Savadova, The University of Edinburgh.
The editors call for conceptual and empirical articles that critically unpack the interrelations of children and digital media in early childhood education to inform future directions in research, policy and practice to enable socially just digital access and experiences for children. The editors welcome contributions that draw together digital childhoods, intersectionality, digital inequalities and early childhood education, including but not exhaustive of the following areas:
- Intersectional dimensions (age, gender, race, ethnicity, socio-economic status, dis/ability etc.) of the experiences and impacts of digitalisation in early childhood education
- Digitalisation and early childhood pedagogies and practices
- Digitalisation and the planning, documentation and tracking of young children’s learning and development
- Diverse young children’s own understandings of and agency in relation to digitalisation in their educational lives
- Digitalisation of early childhood education in the majority and minority world
- Affective and moral discourses around child-digital interactions in early childhood education
- Play and digitalisation of young children’s lives in early childhood education
Please send an abstract of no more than 250 words to busra.kumru@iuc.edu.tr by the 14th March 2025. Please kindly attach your abstract as a Word document and write Global Education Review in the subject line of your email.
Read the full Call for Papers here: GER CfP 2026.