Child Development and Education: Modern Trends in Research and Practice
A special issue of Education Sciences (ISSN 2227-7102). This special issue belongs to the section "Early Childhood Education".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (1 December 2022) | Viewed by 14187
Special Issue Editors
Interests: cultural-historical psychology; child cognitive and emotional development; executive functions
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals
2. Institute of Neuropsychology and Psychopedagogy of Puebla, Puebla, México
Interests: child neuropsychology; educational psychology; developmental psychology; cultural psychology approach; methodology of teaching
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
This Special Issue is devoted to development of children and education technology in digital world. The process of digitalization became an integral part of a child’s social situation of development in terms of Vygotsky, and has influenced the educational process at all stages.
We welcome results of theoretical and empirical research aimed at understanding of preschool and school-children development, as well as transformation of educational systems in different countries.
In this Special Issue, original research articles and reviews are welcome. Research areas may include (but not limited to) the following:
- Bi and multilingual development: opportunities and risks;
- Big Data in childhood studies;
- Child development in a multicultural context;
- Child health in the context of digitalization;
- Digital socialization of a child at different stages of development;
- Digitalization of educational process: challenges and perspectives;
- Educator and digital technologies: experience of use and effective practices;
- Family context and the adult as a mediator of the digitalization of childhood;
- Philosophy of digital education;
- Psychological science to help digital app developers and children's content creators;
- Psychology of assimilation of mathematics in kindergarten and at school;
- Psychology of play and toys;
- Sustainable development and ecological consciousness in the context of digitalization;
- The impact of digitalization on cognitive and emotional development of children.
- We look forward to receiving your contributions.
Dr. Aleksander N. Veraksa
Dr. Yulia Solovieva
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- child development
- digitalization
- education
- preschool
- school
- education technology
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