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Publication Date: 2013
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Seeing Red? The Agency of Computer Software in the Production and Management of Students' School Absences
Bodén, Linnea
International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education (QSE), v26 n9 p1117-1131 2013
An increasing number of Swedish municipalities use digital software to manage the registration of students' school absences. The software is regarded as a problem-solving tool to make registration more efficient, but its effects on the educational setting have been largely neglected. Focusing on an event with two students from a class of 11-year-olds, the aim of the paper is to explore schools' common uses of computer software for registering absence in order to understand how materialities--like the software--are entangled with the production of school absence. In the paper, the Deleuzio-Guattarian concept of the "assemblage" is put to work within a feminist relational materialist framework. This enables an understanding of the complexity of school absence, where materialities of the educational setting are theorized as entangled with social and gendered discursive components.
Descriptors: Attendance, Computer Software, Management Systems, Municipalities, Foreign Countries, Feminism, Guidelines, Elementary School Students
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Evaluative
Education Level: Elementary Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Sweden
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