%0 Journal Article
%T ¡°An idea is in your body¡±: Technology and transformation in the early childhood classroom
%A Dana Frantz Bentley
%J Global Studies of Childhood
%@ 2043-6106
%D 2018
%R 10.1177/2043610618760099
%X What does it mean to engage in transformational learning with young children? In a time when ¡°technology¡± is hallowed as all-important, how do we frame young children as empowered, critical thinkers around technologies, instead of just consumers? This article looks closely at a child-centered, emergent curricular process within an early childhood classroom. Framing the ¡°having of ideas¡± as the essential technology in children¡¯s lives, a teacher chronicles and analyzes children¡¯s idea-having process and the pedagogies around it. Focusing on children¡¯s talk, questioning, critique, and negotiation, this article shifts away from notions of traditional technologies, looking closely at the transformational learning inherent in children¡¯s collective having-of-ideas
%K autonomous learning
%K creative learning
%K early childhood pedagogy
%K play
%U https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/2043610618760099