Dr Sarah Eagle

Research summary

Learning in informal settings, Digital technologies in teaching and learning, Emergent Literacy, Early Years, Agency, Interdisciplinarity, Theories of situated cognition and of embodiment 

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Biography

My work at GSoE revolves around digital technologies and learning.

I am particularly interested in learning in informal contexts, and my doctoral research explored young children's experience with interactive digital technologies in the home. I drew on theories that put human communication at the heart of learning: my take on technologies is that they are designed artefacts that can support, or extend, or provide a context for human communication.

I have been working at international and local levels on a variety of projects:

• As a member of the European Network of Excellence, STELLAR, for which I co-authored the Grand ...

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Selected publications

• Eagle, S, Manches, A, O'Malley, C, Plowman, L, Sutch, D & Sutherland, R 2008, ‘Early Years Learning with Digital Technologies: The Relationship Between Research and Design’. in: International Society of the Learning Sciences (eds) Eighth International Conference for the Learning Sciences, Utrecht, The Netherlands.

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