Browsing UiS Brage by Author "Kucirkova, Natalia"
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Agency in Educational Technology: Interdisciplinary Perspectives and Implications for Learning Design
Brod, Garvin; Kucirkova, Natalia; Shepherd, Joshua; Jolles, Dietsje; Molenaar, Inge (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023-02)Advancing learners’ agency is a key educational goal. The advent of personalized EdTech, which automatically tailor learning environments to individual learners, gives renewed relevance to the topic. EdTech researchers and ... -
Beyond Personalisation: Embracing Democratic Learning within Artificially Intelligent Education Systems
Kucirkova, Natalia; Leaton-Gray, Sandra (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)This essay explains how, from the theoretical perspective of Basil Bernstein's three “conditions for democracy,” the current pedagogy of artificially intelligent personalized learning seems inadequate. Building on Bernstein's ... -
Beyond Personalization: Embracing Democratic Learning Within Artificially Intelligent Systems
Kucirkova, Natalia; Leaton Gray, Sandra (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)This essay explains how, from the theoretical perspective of Basil Bernstein's three “conditions for democracy,” the current pedagogy of artificially intelligent personalized learning seems inadequate. Building on Bernstein's ... -
Children save lives: evaluation of a first aid training in Norwegian kindergartens
Plischewski, Henning; Kucirkova, Natalia; Anda Haug, Ingunn; Tanum, Iselin; Lea, Silje (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021-10)Part of effective Early Childhood Education and Care is to support children’s awareness of hazards and management of possible injuries during risky play. This study evaluated the attitudes of Norwegian kindergarten teachers ... -
Children's Multisensory Experiences in Museums: How Olfaction Interacts with Colour
Kucirkova, Natalia; Speed, Laura (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023-12)This case study was designed to engage children’s sense of smell through a story-related museum exhibition. Children’s responses to the exhibition, with particular attention to their olfactory perceptions of the odors at ... -
Children’s Agency by Design: Design parameters for personalization in story-making apps
Kucirkova, Natalia (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019-09)The importance of children’s agency in the use of technologies is well-established but it continues to be challenged with applications that automatically personalize children’s content. This paper integrates educational ... -
Children’s critical thinking skills: perceptions of Norwegian early childhood educators
Pollarolo, Enrico; Størksen, Ingunn; Skarstein, Tuula Helka; Kucirkova, Natalia (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)The significance of learning to think critically from a young age is well documented. Early childhood educators play an essential role in children’s critical skills development. Therefore, it is crucial to understand their ... -
Children’s early reading through the sense of smell: a typology of olfactory engagement
Kucirkova, Natalia; Bruheim-Escobar, Ida (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)We investigated adult–child shared book reading of olfactory books that stimulate the sense of smell through scratch-and-sniff surfaces. We observed ten adult–child dyads reading olfactory books at home and documented the ... -
Children’s Olfactory Picturebooks: Charting New Trends in Early Childhood Education
Kucirkova, Natalia; Tosun, Selim (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023-03)Converging global trends (digitization, globalization, datafication) have influenced all aspects of children’s literacies, including children’s picturebooks. The recent turn towards embodied, affective and sensory literacies, ... -
Children’s reading with digital books: past moving quickly to the future
Kucirkova, Natalia (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019-09)Digital books, such as e‐books, story apps, picture book apps, and interactive stories, are narratives presented on touchscreens with multimedia and interactive features. Evidence suggests that early reading of print versus ... -
Children’s stories and multisensory engagement: insights from a cultural probes study
Kucirkova, Natalia; Kamola, Monika (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022-05)This study builds on child-centred early education models that emphasise active listening to children's voices and follow participatory research methods to accommodate children's expressions. We used the cultural probes ... -
Commentary on Highly Successful Female Educational Psychologists: Equity and Intersectionality in Success Definitions
Kucirkova, Natalia (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023-01)Despite the international focus on validation and success indicators of academic work across disciplines, examples of accomplished educational psychologists and their personal stories have been limited in the literature. ... -
A Comparison of Children’s Reading on Paper Versus Screen: A Meta-Analysis
Kucirkova, Natalia; Bus, Adriana; Furenes, May Irene (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)This meta-analysis examines the inconsistent findings across experimental studies that compared children’s learning outcomes with digital and paper books. We quantitatively reviewed 39 studies reported in 30 articles (n = ... -
Designing Personalized Instruction: A Research and Design Framework
Kucirkova, Natalia; Gerard, Libby; Linn, Marcia C. (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021-05)Advances in technology have increased the opportunities for designers to personalise instruction based on student actions. We conducted semi-structured interviews with an international sample of educational professionals ... -
Digital Edible Literacies: Ephemeral and Highly Affective
Kucirkova, Natalia (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023) -
Digital literacies and children’s personalized books: Locating the ‘self’
Kucirkova, Natalia; Mackey, Margaret (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020-07)This conceptual article discusses the role of digital literacies in personalized books, in relation to children’s developing sense of self, and in terms of assessing the potential impact of artificial intelligence (AI). ... -
The Distance between the 'Self' and the 'Other' in Children's Digital Books
Kucirkova, Natalia; Littleton, Karen (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020-10)This conceptual paper contributes towards our understanding of the underlying mechanisms in children’s understanding of self and the other with media. We synthesise diverse bodies of literature, concerned with children’s ... -
An empirical investigation of parent-child shared reading of digital personalized books
Kucirkova, Natalia; Flewitt, Rosie; Gattis, Merideth; Spargo, Thomas; Seisedos, Beatriz (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020-12)Numerous studies have documented the benefits of parent-child shared reading of print books, but few studies have examined parent-child reading behaviours with digital personalized books. This lab-based study examined the ... -
Experiment protocol: Exploring the sense of smell in digital book reading
Løkken, Ingrid Veronika Midteide; Campbell, Janine Anne; Kucirkova, Natalia; Dale, Philip S (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)This paper outlines the background and design, and their rationale, for conducting a small-scale experiment to examine the effect of olfactory stimulation on children's reading outcomes. The theoretical underpinnings of ... -
The explanatory power of sensory reading for early childhood research: the role of hidden senses
Kucirkova, Natalia (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)Sensory reading refers to reading that engages all six of the human senses – vison, hearing, touch, gustation, olfaction and proprioception. The author proposes that increased attention be paid to the three ‘hidden’ senses ...