ERIC Number: EJ1179756
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2018-Mar
Pages: 19
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Institutional Educational Technology Policy and Strategy Documents: An Inequality Gaze
Czerniewicz, Laura; Rother, Kyle
Research in Comparative and International Education, v13 n1 p27-45 Mar 2018
Issues of inequality in higher education have received considerable attention in recent decades, but the intersection of inequality and educational technology at an institutional level has received little attention. This study aims to provide a perspective on institutional educational technology policy informed by current understandings of inequality. The study takes the form of a content analysis of institutional educational technology policy and strategy documents of universities in the United Kingdom and South Africa. A preliminary review of the educational technology policy literature reveals low levels of engagement with issues of inequality in policy documents at an institutional level. Therborn's typology of inequality provides the basis of a structured framework for the analysis, with Bourdieu's concepts of capital being incorporated as markers of the various types of inequality. The study reveals regional differences in the approach to inequality as a policy matter, as well as a varied engagement with the issues of inequality related to educational technology at a policy level.
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Educational Policy, Equal Education, Content Analysis, Universities, Foreign Countries, Comparative Education, Cultural Capital, Social Capital, Access to Education
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Higher Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: United Kingdom; South Africa
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