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The bridging interpretation of the third space (Pahl & Rowsell 2005, p. 65; published by permission of Sage).

The bridging interpretation of the third space (Pahl & Rowsell 2005, p. 65; published by permission of Sage).

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The current stage of early years information and communication technology (ICT) integration research has been criticized for not paying enough attention to the unique pedagogical features of early childhood education. Similarly, children’s views about educational use of ICT have been underrepresented in research. This dissertation study contributes...

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... were also illustrated by searching for Ninjago pictures on the internet. In this example, the children's first space knowledge (knowledge about Ninjago) is used to learn conventional academic knowledge (print literacy skills; Moje et al., 2004; see also Dickie & Shuker, 2014;Dyson, 2003Dyson, , 2010, and the children and the teacher are "writing using home and school literacy" which Kate Pahl and Jennifer Rowsell (2005, p. 75) offered as an archetypical example of third space pedagogy in their illustration of a bridging third space (see Figure 1). The bridging interpretation, however, is problematic for two reasons. ...
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... the "far left" of the continuum, the research includes the use of first-person voice, an attempt to construct personal truths, art-based methods, the researcher is more or as much the focus as the other participants, and use of experimental forms of research reports. In "the middle" are studies that use firstperson voice, explore how participants understand their world, focus more on participants than on the researcher but acknowledge the subjectivity of the researcher's interpretations, use a vast array of data collection and analysis methods, and rely on traditional methods of reporting the research (Ellingson, 2009, 2011). ...

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This chapter examines the main factors of Greek kindergarten against primary school teachers' attitudes towards ICT in class. The participants of this research were drawn from teachers of public schools in the area of Athens and Crete (Greece). A 5-point Likert scale questionnaire with 30 questions designed to assess attitudes of teachers toward computers and their computer knowledge in primary schools learning environment. Varimax with Kaiser Normalization was applied to extract the main five factors of kindergarten teachers' attitudes. Also, a three 2-way MANOVA was performed between the kindergarten and primary school teachers to see the interactions of these main factors on: a) the ICT knowledge of teachers, b) the frequency of using ICT at home by the teachers and, c) the ICT use in the teaching process. Finally, the changes in the main factors of kindergarten and primary school teachers were discussed in the hope that they may provide useful information on the school curriculum.