Integration of digital technologies in play-based pedagogy in Kuwaiti Early Childhood Education: Teachers’ views, attitudes and aptitudes

Scholars in the field of early childhood education are still debating
the inclusion of digital technologies in play-based pedagogy and
our understanding of digital play in early childhood education is
still developing. This research paper examines early childhood
education teachers’ views, aptitudes and attitudes towards digital
technologies in their personal lives and in the classroom practices
in Kuwait. This is a quantitative study in which 195 teachers
completed a questionnaire designed around the key themes of
the investigation in an attempt to understand how teachers are
positioning themselves in terms of a play-based pedagogy and
digital technologies. The key findings demonstrated that although
the Kuwaiti teachers are competent users of digital technologies
in their personal lives and the Kuwaiti classrooms have been
digitalised to a large extent, the teachers are still hesitant in
embedding these in their curriculum practices.