What Do Preschool Teachers and Parents Think about the Influence of Screen-Time Exposure on Children's Development? Challenges and Opportunities

Autor/inn/en	Monteiro, Rita; Fernandes, Sandra; Rocha, Nuno
Titel	What Do Preschool Teachers and Parents Think about the Influence of Screen-Time Exposure on Children's Development? Challenges and Opportunities
Quelle	In: Education Sciences, 12 (2022), Artikel 52 (12 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Monteiro, Rita) ORCID (Fernandes, Sandra) ORCID (Rocha, Nuno)
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	2227-7102
Schlagwörter	Preschool Teachers; Teacher Attitudes; Parent Attitudes; Television Viewing; Handheld Devices; Child Development; Play; Technology Uses in Education; Language Acquisition; Preschool Children; Foreign Countries; Portugal + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Pre-school education; Preschool education; Erzieher; Erzieherin; Kindergärtnerin; Vorschulerziehung; Vorschule; Lehrerverhalten; Elternverhalten; Fernsehkonsum; Kindesentwicklung; Spiel; Technology enhanced learning; Technology aided learning; Technologieunterstütztes Lernen; Sprachaneignung; Spracherwerb; Pre-school age; Preschool age; Child; Children; Vorschulalter; Kind; Kinder; Vorschulkind; Vorschulkinder; Ausland
Abstract	Children's exposure to screens has been increasing in recent years and so has the concern about its impact on children's development. This study aims to analyze preschool teachers' and parents' views on the influence of screen-time exposure on children's development. Semi-structured interviews with preschool teachers (n = 9), as well as data from a previous quantitative study, based on an online questionnaire applied to parents of children in preschool (n = 266) were used for data collection. For this study, eminently of qualitative nature, the following dimensions were analyzed: children's habits of exposure to screens at home, changes in children's play habits at school, strategies/methodologies used by preschool teachers, use of technologies at school and children's language development. The results from the study with parents show that screen-time exposure of children is between 1 h to 2 h of television per day, mostly to watch cartoons. Parents also report that most of the children use vocabulary in other languages at home. Most preschool teachers agreed that children are changing their play habits and mainly their behaviors and attitudes, influenced by screen-time exposure. They believe that language development is also changing, mentioning more language problems in children. Changes in pedagogic strategies and specialized training on educational technology are needed to get closer to children's interests. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01