Browsing UiS Brage by Author "Kucirkova, Natalia"
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Faulty screen time measures hamper national policies: here is a way to address it
Kucirkova, Natalia; Livingstone, Sonia; Radesky, Jenny (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)Following widespread reliance on online interactions during COVID-19, Western governments are strategizing and launching new plans for children's use of screens. It is healthy to debate, for example, the ethics of artificial ... -
Gains and challenges with the Classroom Assessment Scoring System in a social pedagogical tradition
Evertsen, Cecilie; Størksen, Ingunn; Tharaldsen, Kjersti Balle; Kucirkova, Natalia (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)Introduction: This qualitative study explores how Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC) professionals’ perceptions of gains and challenges using the Classroom Assessment Scoring System (CLASS, Pre-K and Toddler) within ... -
Gender equality, human development, and PISA results over time
Campbell, Janine Anne; McIntyre, Joseph; Kucirkova, Natalia (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021-12)Gender equality through the empowerment, representation, and provision of equal opportunities for all, regardless of gender, is increasingly recognised as a driver of social outcomes and a fundamental human right. This ... -
Higher-Order Thinking in Early Childhood Education and Care: Mediating young children's higher-order thinking skills. The role of mathematics, coding toys and educators
Pollarolo, Enrico (PhD thesis UiS;745, Doctoral thesis, 2024-02-23)Background: Higher-order thinking skills are those skills that allow children to not only acquire but also to process knowledge as they prepare to meet the challenges posed by the 21st century. Research to date has highlighted ... -
How could children’s storybooks promote empathy? A conceptual framework based on developmental psychology and literary theory
Kucirkova, Natalia (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)This conceptual paper proposes a framework for understanding the developmental mechanisms and literary characteristics that bind children’s storybooks with empathy. The article begins with a taxonomy of empathy composed ... -
Høytlesning av personaliserte bøker for førskolebarn : foreldres barneperspektiver og opplevelser
Jensen, Ida Bruheim; Studsrød, Ingunn; Kucirkova, Natalia (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)Litteratur er en mulig skattkiste for barn og voksne. Personaliserte bøker, som er bøker unikt utformet for enkeltbarn, er relativt nytt i Norge, og er gjort til lite gjenstand for forskning. I denne studien analyserer vi ... -
The Importance of Embodiment and Agency in Parents’ Positive Attitudes Towards Shared Reading with Their Children
Kucirkova, Natalia; Grøver, Vibeke (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)Parents’ attitudes are an important indicator of whether and how parents engage in shared book reading (SBR) at home. This study analysed Norwegian parents’ attitudes towards reading books with their children aged between ... -
The importance of sensorial and spatial aspects in family reading at home: Insights from a national survey in Norway
Kucirkova, Natalia; Campbell, Janine Anne; Stangeland, Elisabeth Brekke; Hoel, Trude (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)Purpose The study investigated the relationships between spatial, multisensorial, and structural factors in family reading routines. Materials 1001 survey responses and 926 open-ended answers of parents of 3- to ... -
Incorporating smell into children's museums : Insights from a case study in Norway
Kucirkova, Natalia; Gausel, Elisabeth Stray (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023-09)We report on how we integrated smell into the classic children's story ‘The Three Little Pigs’ to enhance a public children's museum exhibition. The study employed Wenger's (1998) social theory of learning as its conceptual ... -
The Learning Value of Personalization in Children's Reading Recommendation Systems: What Can We Learn From Constructionism?
Kucirkova, Natalia (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)This article critically reviews the personalization logic embedded in reading recommendation systems developed for 2- to 11-year-old children and its (dis)alignment with Papert's constructionist and socio-constructionist ... -
Lessons for child-computer interaction studies following the research challenges during the Covid-19 pandemic
Kucirkova, Natalia; Evertsen-Stanghelle, Cecilie; Studsrød, Ingunn; Jensen, Ida Bruheim; Størksen, Ingunn (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)The impact of the Covid-19 pandemic has been experienced differently in and within individual countries and thus has had a different impact on the individual researchers in the child–computer interaction studies. There ... -
Mathematics and higher-order thinking in early childhood education and care (ECEC)
Pollarolo, Enrico; Skarstein, Tuula Helka; Størksen, Ingunn; Kucirkova, Natalia (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)This article investigates the perspectives of Norwegian early childhood educators on mathematics and higher-order thinking. Thematic analysis of the connection between mathematics and children’s higher-order thinking skills ... -
Multisensory Reading in Early Childhood: Systematic Review with Theoretical Guidance for Human Development Studies
Kucirkova, Natalia; Rodriguez-Leon, Lucy (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)Our systematic qualitative analysis advances the field of human development with an integrative review of sensory research in children’s reading of books and e-books. Based on a systematic literature review of 35 papers, ... -
Olfactoscapes in Malawi: Exploring the smells children like and are exposed to in semi-urban classrooms
Kucirkova, Natalia; Chinula, Neema (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)Moving beyond the “canned” lens on literacies dominant in contemporary literacy studies in Malawi, this study connects theoretical perspectives on sensory and critical literacies to original empirical data on children’s ... -
Parent-child joint reading of digital books in bilingual families in Malta
Mifsud, Charles; Georgieva, Rositsa; Kucirkova, Natalia (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021-08)We examined parent-child shared reading of Maltese and English e-books in four bilingual families. Analysis of the participant videos, questionnaires and semi-structured interview data revealed positive engagement of the ... -
Parents’ ontological beliefs regarding the use of conversational agents at home: resisting the neoliberal discourse
Kucirkova, Natalia; Hiniker, Alexis (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023-01)This paper develops a critical perspective on the use of conversational agents (CAs) with children at home. Drawing on interviews with eleven parents of pre-school children living in Norway, we illustrate the ways in which ... -
Parent–child shared reading of scratch-and-sniff books: the communicative affordance of olfaction
Kucirkova, Natalia; Bruheim-Escobar, Ida (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)This study extends the research on shared book reading (SBR) by specifically examining the role of smell in parent–child SBR sessions observed at home. Drawing on qualitative methods, we analysed the verbal engagement of ... -
Professionals’ Perceptions of the Classroom Assessment Scoring System as a structure for professional community and development
Evertsen, Cecilie; Størksen, Ingunn; Kucirkova, Natalia (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)This qualitative study explored Norwegian ECEC professionals’ perceptions and reflections concerning the use of the Classroom Assessment Scoring System (CLASS) Pre-K and Toddler for professional development. Focus group ... -
Reading in the digital age: Differences and commonalities across research approaches
Erstad, Ola Andres; Kucirkova, Natalia; Mangen, Anne; Aarsand, Pål André; Blikstad-Balas, Marte (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)Reading, a cornerstone of children’s education, is deeply influenced by cultural and traditional factors. Despite a consensus on its critical role, divergent definitions of reading persist across disciplines and theoretical ... -
Rethinking agency in literacies: Malawian children’s and teachers’ perspectives
Kucirkova, Natalia; Rodriguez-Leon, Lucy; Chinula, Neema Mwenda (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023-10)This qualitative study contributes theorised and empirically enriched insights from local practices into children’s agency. The authors trace a converging interest in multimodal literacies, postcolonial philosophies and ...