Literacies of Indigeneity at the Children’s science museum: Playing with pixels
Using a feminist-new materialist lens, this paper attends to child-digital interactions in fostering Indigenous literacies, by focusing on the Quantum Sandbox exhibit in the Digital Immersion Lab at a Canadian children’s science museum. Analytically, this paper explores how a digital exhibit ( Quantum Sandbox ) creates a space for young learners to engage with both quantum science concepts and Indigenous worldviews through a combination of digital technologies, storytelling, and interactive play, emphasizing the entanglements of human and nonhuman agents in the co-creation of knowledge.
Authors
- Jaye Johnson Thiel (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8361-3560)
Institutions
- University of Alabama (US)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Journal of Early Childhood Literacy
- Published
- 2025-09-16
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1177/14687984251381457
- Primary Topic
- Museums and Cultural Heritage
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00