Dilemmas and concerns of families about the use of digital educational resources in the Early Childhood Education stage ; Dilemas y preocupaciones de las familias sobre el uso de recursos educativos digitales en la etapa de la Educación Infantil

Within the framework of an ongoing research project, this paper presents and analyses the perceptions and appreciations that a sample of families from three different Spanish regions, The Canary Islands, Galicia and Valencia, express regarding the availability, use, perceptions and mediations performed with digital materials and resources. Devices, platforms and applications they use at home, in some cases, to support the teaching and learning process carried out in schools and in the Key Stage 2 of Childhood Education. These perceptions and appreciations were gathered in focus groups during the period of the pandemic and within the mentioned framework of a project with a mixed methodological option. The evidence from the fieldwork and much of the specialised literature suggests that, although they have more than enough digital resources, and their children are skilled and motivated to use them, their position regarding the risks and benefits of the digitalisation process is unstable, contradictory, insecure, a permanent source of family conflict and in need of support. Aspects that, as a whole, have a significant impact on the school reinforcement that families provide to their children at home, particularly in infant school. ; En el marco de una investigación en curso se presentan y analizan en este texto las visiones y valoraciones que una muestra de familias de tres comunidades autónomas distintas, Canarias, Galicia y Valencia, expresan respecto a la disponibilidad, uso, percepciones y mediaciones que hacen de los materiales y recursos digitales. Dispositivos, plataformas y aplicaciones que manejan en sus hogares, en algunos casos, como apoyo al proceso de enseñanza y aprendizaje que se realiza en el sistema escolar con el alumnado de segundo ciclo de Educación Infantil. Las visiones y valoraciones de estas familias fueron recogidas en entrevistas grupales llevadas a cabo durante el período de la pandemia y en el marco de un proyecto con opción metodológica mixta. Las evidencias extraídas del trabajo de ...