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  • Digital Competence Development in Early Childhood Professionals: Harnessing the INSPIRE Model

    Digital Competence Development in Early Childhood Professionals by Kewalramani, Sarika; Yang, Weipeng; Dardanou, Maria;

    Harnessing the INSPIRE Model

    Series: Evolving Families;

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    • Edition number 1
    • Publisher Routledge
    • Date of Publication 4 December 2025

    • ISBN 9781032994116
    • Binding Hardback
    • No. of pages160 pages
    • Size 234x156 mm
    • Language English
    • Illustrations 4 Illustrations, black & white; 1 Halftones, black & white; 3 Line drawings, black & white; 8 Tables, black & white
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    Short description:

    This book examines innovative recent developments in curricula and pedagogical discourses around early childhood professionals’ digital competence development via professional development avenues. This will be a valuable resource in understanding how digital competence development occurs through cultural learnings.

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    Long description:

    This book examines innovative recent developments in curricula and pedagogical discourses around early childhood professionals’ digital competence development via professional development avenues. By expanding the notion of digital technologies integration teaching perspectives and educators’ practices in early childhood education, the authors not only conceptualise a professional development model, but also apply the model to bring together research across cultural contexts.


    Presenting findings from four cases, it offers research-informed tangible examples of teacher-centric professional development - one that inspires early childhood professionals, teacher educators and preservice teachers to use a variety of multimodal technologies within their repertoire of play-based practices (e.g., STEM-focused play for and with young children, teaching computational thinking).


    Case studies in this book are evidence of how practitioners can come together to build communities of practice to support their digital competence development as critical pedagogues and integrate a variety of evolving technology-based play (e.g., AI platforms), while engaging in paradigmatic debates. Readers will better appreciate the growth in pragmatic applications of technologies together with theoretical perspectives and methodological approaches.


    This will be a valuable resource for any academic or practitioner, whether beginning or expert, in understanding how digital competence development occurs through cultural learnings, is inclusive, not discipline- based, is holistic. In reframing early childhood professionals’ digital competence development as a naturalistic process, it will inspire educators to integrate a range of digital and multimodal technologies in their everyday practices.

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    Table of Contents:


    Part 1: A case for the development of digital competence among ECE workforce 1. Digital technologies as the third teacher 2. Conceptualising early childhood workforce professional development landscapes for digital competence: Introducing the INSPIRE model Part 2: Educators' professional learning stories for STEM and digital competency development 3. Situating early childhood teachers’ STEM and digital competency via robotics play 4. INSPIRE-Driven PlayBot: Empowering Early Childhood Teachers’ Digital Pedagogy in Hong Kong Part 3: Creative curation of curricula, policy and teaching practices for ECE workforce DC development 5. Exploring Professional Digital Competence in Norwegian ECEC: Insights from the INSPIRE Model and teachers’ perspectives 6. Harnessing the INSPIRE model to navigate AI opportunities and challenges with Greek early childhood preservice teachers 7. University-Community partnership in STEM teacher education through work-integrated immersive professional learning Part 4: Conclusion - Stepping towards transformative ECE classroom practices 8. Conclusion

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