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摘要
This article analyzes, from a structure-theoretical perspective, how the conditions of media-pedagogical practice in early childhood education change against the background of deep mediatization. Building on Helsper’s concept of professional antinomies, it examines how five central antinomies transform under these conditions—partly through the intensification of existing tensions, partly through the emergence of qualitatively new dimensions. The heterogeneity of media-related starting conditions and disparate media-related discourses are identified as overarching structural characteristics. Professional media-pedagogical practice therefore requires the development of a professional habitus for the reflexive balancing of these transformed requirements. The article thus opens up empirical research perspectives for the structure-theoretical analysis of media-pedagogical professionalism in early childhood education.