Preschool Teachers’ Intentions to Use GenAI: Extending UTAUT
Chenchen Hao, Zeguo Wang, Ping Wang · 2026
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Chenchen Hao, Zeguo Wang, and Ping Wang ask what draws preschool teachers to use generative artificial intelligence, in a 2026 mixed-methods study. Young-child teaching has been slow to take up such tools, and the reasons were little mapped. The team built a model on a known adoption framework and ran a workshop for 434 teachers, gathering 399 sound surveys and fifteen deep talks.
Hope of better work results, peer pull, and tech skill each tied to a stronger wish to use the tools, while fear of risk pulled the other way. Ease of use and support at hand showed no clear link. Talks with teachers backed the survey pattern. The authors warn that tangled measures make the results a first sketch, and they call for firmer tests in other settings.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Chenchen Hao, Zeguo Wang, Ping Wang |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 53 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |