ABSTRACT

This paper discusses characteristics of converged play for early childhood education. The characteristics were derived from a four-year study of teachers’ interpretation and use of ‘web-mapping’ as an explicit conceptual tool, designed to mediate teaching practices and learning outcomes according to a definition of pedagogy as the relationship between teaching and learning. Three characteristics of converged play were identified via detailed analysis of ten core converged play ‘episodes’ drawn from teacher exemplar cases. The characteristics were ‘multi-modal’, ‘global-local’, and ‘traditional-digital’. The characteristics of converged play presented can help teachers understand teaching and learning in the digital age, providing a starting point for an early childhood pedagogy in which children and teachers can engage in well-established opportunities for play-based learning alongside multi-modal, global-local, and traditional-digital activities in early childhood education and care settings.

摘要

本文讨论了融合式游戏的特点，用于幼儿教育。这些特征来自对教师的四年解释研究，并使用“网络映射”作为一种明确的概念工具，旨在根据教学法作为教学与学习之间的关系来调解教学实践和学习成果。通过对十个核心融合游戏“片段”的详细分析，确定了融合游戏的三个特征。特征是“多模式”，“全球本地”和“传统数字”。呈现融合游戏的特点可以帮助教师了解数字时代的教与学，