Blar i Vitenskapelige publikasjoner (HF-NSLA) på forfatter "Kucirkova, Natalia"
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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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ...