Karen Murcia

Karen Murcia

Curtin University

H-index: 21

Oceania-Australia

About Karen Murcia

Karen Murcia, With an exceptional h-index of 21 and a recent h-index of 15 (since 2020), a distinguished researcher at Curtin University, specializes in the field of STEM Education, Digital Technologies, Pedagogy.

His recent articles reflect a diverse array of research interests and contributions to the field:

How to Code a Sandcastle: Fostering Cildren’s Computational Thinking through an Unplugged Coding Experience

‘I can’t draw, sing or dance to save my life!’: Educator and parent implicit theories of creativity

Fostering young children's creativity in online learning environments: A systematic literature review.

Rethinking the Development of Computational Thinking Skills in Young Children through Nature Play

Wired, wild, wonderful: A scoping review of early childhood nature connections fostered by digital technologies

Digital technologies and the early childhood sector: are we fostering digital capabilities and agency in young children?

Children's creative inquiry in STEM

Research linking digital technologies to young children's creativity: An interpretive framework and systematic review

Karen Murcia Information

University

Position

Associate Professor

Citations(all)

1397

Citations(since 2020)

582

Cited By

943

hIndex(all)

21

hIndex(since 2020)

15

i10Index(all)

36

i10Index(since 2020)

19

Email

University Profile Page

Curtin University

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Karen Murcia Skills & Research Interests

STEM Education

Digital Technologies

Pedagogy

Top articles of Karen Murcia

Title

Journal

Author(s)

Publication Date

How to Code a Sandcastle: Fostering Cildren’s Computational Thinking through an Unplugged Coding Experience

Journal of Innovation, Advancement, and Methodology in STEM education

Karen Murcia

Emma Cross

Sarsha Mennell

Julia Seitz

Daniel Sabatino

2024/2/29

‘I can’t draw, sing or dance to save my life!’: Educator and parent implicit theories of creativity

Australasian Journal of Early Childhood

Katie Fielding

Kimberly Maslin

Karen Murcia

2023/6

Fostering young children's creativity in online learning environments: A systematic literature review.

Kimberly Maslin

Karen Murcia

Susan Blackley

Geoff Lowe

2023/3/1

Rethinking the Development of Computational Thinking Skills in Young Children through Nature Play

OzCHI'23: Proceedings of the 35th Australian Conference on Human-Computer Interaction

Chimi Om

Margot Brereton

Kellie Vella

Bernd Ploderer

Tshering Dema

...

2023

Wired, wild, wonderful: A scoping review of early childhood nature connections fostered by digital technologies

Kellie Vella

Madeleine Dobson

Shannon Rodgers

Chimi Om

Filip Bircanin

...

2023/10/28

Digital technologies and the early childhood sector: are we fostering digital capabilities and agency in young children?

The Australian Educational Researcher

Sinead Wilson

Karen Murcia

Emma Cross

Geoff Lowe

2023/7/13

Children's creative inquiry in STEM

Karen Janette Murcia

Coral Campbell

Mathilda Marie Joubert

Sinead Wilson

2022/4/5

Research linking digital technologies to young children's creativity: An interpretive framework and systematic review

Katie Fielding

Karen Murcia

2022/3/1

Children's Creativity and STEM Inquiry Projects

Asia Research Network Journal of Education

Karen Murcia

2022/12/31

Empowering early childhood teachers to develop digital technology pedagogies: An Australian action research case study

Karen Murcia

Emma Cross

2022/4/21

Exploring an Engineering Design Process and Young Children’s Creativity

Karen Murcia

Chloe Oblak

2022/4/6

Young children learning to code: A digital technologies framework for the early years

Young Children’s Rights in a Digital World: Play, Design and Practice

Karen Murcia

2021

How have Covid-19-related changes to tuition modes impacted face-to-face initial teacher education students?

Issues in Educational Research

Susan Blackley

Sinead Wilson

Rachel Sheffield

Karen Murcia

Paul Brown

...

2021/6

Young Children's Rights in a Digital World

Donell Holloway

Michele Willson

Karen Murcia

Catherine Archer

Francesca Stocco

2021

Research ethics and digitising early childhood

Young Children’s Rights in a Digital World: Play, Design and Practice

Madeleine Dobson

Karen Murcia

Kim Gifkins

Donell Holloway

2021

Schools: An untapped opportunity for a carbon neutral future

Sustainability

Portia Odell

Vanessa Rauland

Karen Murcia

2020/12/23

Young children's inquiry: Questioning for science and mathematics learning connections in a construction project

Teaching Science

Karen Murcia

Emma Clifford

Emma Cross

Coral Pepper

Shyam Drury

2020/12

A framework for identifying and developing children's creative thinking while coding with digital technologies

Issues in Educational Research

Karen Murcia

Coral Pepper

Mathilda Joubert

Emma Cross

Sinead Wilson

2020/12

Youth STEM career choices: What's influencing secondary students' decision making

Issues in Educational Research

Karen Murcia

Coral Pepper

John Williams

2020/5

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