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ERIC Number: EJ1042762
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2014
Pages: 16
Abstractor: As Provided
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ISSN: ISSN-1359-866X
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Educational Technology: A Presupposition of Equality?
Orlando, Joanne
Asia-Pacific Journal of Teacher Education, v42 n4 p347-362 2014
The work of philosopher Jacques Rancière is used conceptually and methodologically to frame an exploration of the driving interests in educational technology policy and the sanctioning of particular discursive constructions of pedagogy that result. In line with Rancière's thinking, the starting point for this analysis is that of equality--that people are legally, morally, intellectually, and in their everyday practices discursively equal. The use of Rancière's concepts, "demos," "police," and "politics," to analyse three educational technology policies internationally shows that teachers are positioned within these policies as discursively unequal, and as intellectually inferior, not only in terms of technology expertise, but crucially as pedagogues. This positioning has important implications for teachers and teacher education. Teachers are capable of recognising and critiquing inequality, and this article makes a case for an act of "politics" that aims to reconfigure allocated identities and power imbalances in the educational technology order.
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Evaluative
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Australia; United Kingdom; United States
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