A pedagogical innovation on enhancing creativity: A Bourdieuian analysis of ICT-Play in a preschool

A pedagogical innovation on enhancing creativity: A Bourdieuian analysis of ICT-Play in a preschool

• Lam, Elaine The Education University of Hong Kong
• Fong, Ka Man Yasmin The Education University of Hong Kong
• Ko, Yue On James The Education University of Hong Kong
• Sun, Jin The Education University of Hong Kong

The 27th Annual JURE Conference for Research on Learning and Instruction (2023: Thessaloniki, Greece)

• F Learning & Teaching
  • FA General Teaching Strategies, Different Instructional Methods

• Hong Kong

• 1997.7 onwards

• Pre-Primary Education

Facing the immense pressure to catch up with the international trend, our city, Hong Kong’s education authority has pronounced creativity, play and ICT as the key aims in the kindergarten curriculum (Curriculum Development Council, 2017). However, it is not easy to promote changes in schools which usually ends with ostensible technology integration (Law et al., 2011). Identifying the quality of lessons and barriers to teachers’ profession on this topic is the initial step to developing strategies for improvement. This paper aims to explore the potential for combining these three aspects and ground uses for teaching Creativity with ICT-Play, as well as reforming a better Early Childhood Education (ECE) curriculum of the concept. This article defines creativity and ICT-Play in ECE and studies an integration model applicable to local kindergarten curricula with feasible pedagogies, followed by an evaluation of the current practices and problems in this issue based on interview data with the support from the i-CREATE model and Bourdieu’s Theory of Practice. The study shows how are the quality of teaching creativity with ICT-Play and the impacts of different capitals mentioned in Bourdieu’s Theory of Practice on teachers affect their implementation of ICT-Play pedagogies in local kindergartens. Copyright © 2023 EARLI.

Poster presented at The 27th Annual JURE Conference for Research on Learning and Instruction, Thessaloniki, Greece.

• English

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2024-10-09