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ERIC Number: EJ946668
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2011-Nov
Pages: 15
Abstractor: As Provided
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ISSN: ISSN-0311-6999
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Framing ICT, Teachers and Learners in Australian School Education ICT Policy
Jordan, Kathy
Australian Educational Researcher, v38 n4 p417-431 Nov 2011
It is well over 20 years since information and communication technologies (ICT) was first included as part of a future vision for Australia's schools. Since this time numerous national policies have been developed, which collectively articulate an official discourse in support of a vision for ICT to be embedded in our schools, and routinely used by "digital" learners and "competent" teachers alike. The purpose of this paper is to critique how ICT, teachers and learners are positioned in this vision by an analysis of national school-education ICT policies from 1989 to the present day, including the National Goals of Schooling policies, the Learning in an Online World suite of policies, several Ministerial Statements relating to ICT and the recent A Digital Education Revolution policy. This paper suggests that determinist views of technology and a utopian vision underpin these representations, which creates a flawed, future vision for ICT in school education and its use by teachers and learners.
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Evaluative
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Australia
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