Browsing UiS Brage by Author "Kucirkova, Natalia"
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The significance of children’s olfactory experiences in a Norwegian kindergarten: an olfactory researcher-practitioner collaboration
Kucirkova, Natalia; Kamola, Monika (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)This study is a researcher-practitioner action inquiry which was used to explore children’s sensory experiences with a focus on the sense of smell (olfaction). We critically considered the early childhood theories that ... -
Socio-material directions for developing empirical research on children’s e-reading: A systematic review and thematic synthesis of the literature across disciplines
Kucirkova, Natalia (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019-01)This review integrates literature on cross-disciplinary quantitative and qualitative studies related to children’s reading on screen published between January 2016 and September 2017, with a focus on the researchers’ ... -
Socio-material directions for developing empirical research on children’s e-reading: a systematic review and thematic synthesis of the literature across disciplines
Kucirkova, Natalia (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019-01)This review integrates literature on cross-disciplinary quantitative and qualitative studies related to children’s reading on screen published between January 2016 and September 2017, with a focus on the researchers’ ... -
Systematic review of young children's writing on screen: what do we know and what do we need to know
Kucirkova, Natalia; Rowe Wells, Deborah; Piestrzynski, Laura; Oliver, Lucy (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019-01)Writing is part and parcel of children's active meaning‐making on and with screens, but it has been relatively neglected in the literature focused on children's digital literacies. This study synthesises existing empirical ... -
Tracing the smells of childhoods with an olfactory research inquiry
Kucirkova, Natalia (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)This paper proposes a multi-method olfactory inquiry to document the rich ways in which children's sense of smell is embodied and embedded in an interplay of senses and socio-spatial relationships. I approach olfaction as ... -
Understanding parents’ conflicting beliefs about children’s digital book reading
Kucirkova, Natalia; Flewitt, Rosie (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)In light of growing evidence that many parents are deeply concerned about their young children’s increasing technology use, in this paper we report on aspects of a study funded by the UK Economic and Social Research Council, ... -
Young children’s use of personalized technologies: insights from teachers and digital software designers in Japan
Kucirkova, Natalia; Toda, Yuichi; Flewitt, Rosie (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020-08)Many smart technologies offer personalized experiences, such as the possibility for children to record their voice, add their own pictures or drawings to digital stories, customize their avatars or adjust display settings ...