The Routledge International Handbook of Learning with Technology in Early Childhood

Natalia Kucirkova is Senior Research Fellow at University College London, UK. She graduated in Psychology, holds a Masters in Research Methods and a Doctorate in Education. She worked at the Oxford University Education Department, pursued a pre-doctoral fellowship at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and currently works as Senior Research Fellow at University College London, UK. Her research concerns innovative ways of supporting children's book reading, digital literacy and exploring the role of personalisation in early years. Her publications appeared in Communication Disorders Quarterly, First Language, Computers & Education or Cambridge Journal of Education. She has been commended for her engagement with teachers and parents at a national and international level.Jennifer Roswell is Professor in the department of Teacher Education and Canada Research Chair in Multiliteracies at Brock University, Canada. Her research interests include: research in schools and communities doing multimodal work with children and youth; exploring how younger generations think and interact through technologies, videogames and immersive environments; and, longitudinal work in homes connecting artifacts and material worlds with literacy and identity practices. She is Co-Series Editor with Cynthia Lewis of the Routledge Expanding Literacies in Education Series and the Digital Literacy Editor for The Reading Teacher. Her latest books are The Routledge Handbook of Literacy Studies, co-edited with Kate Pahl and Generation Z: Zombies, Popular Culture, and Educating Youth, Co-Edited with Victoria Carrington, Esther Priyadharshini, and Rebecca Westrup.