Policy Unplugged

Dis/Connections between Technology Policy and Practices in Canadian Schools

Jennifer Jenson, Chloë Brushwood Rose, Brian Lewis

• Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
• Year: 2007
• Print ISBN: 9780773532793
• eBook ISBN: 9780773578104
• Topic: Education
• Subtopic: Education Technology

The authors conducted a two-year study on the implementation of computer technologies, including in-depth interviews and classroom observation at thirty-two elementary and secondary schools across Canada. Based on this research, Policy Unplugged explores the intersections and disconnections between provincial technology policy, school board policy, and school-based practices. The authors consider the ways in which technology policy has become "unplugged" from daily experience, showing that teachers, students, and administrators are part of complex pedagogical and social systems that have been badly served by the enforced and hasty introduction of technology. They also show how small, often unquestioned practices and power relations in schools can create seemingly insurmountable impediments to technological implementation.

Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• 1 The Global and the Local: Technology Policy in Education
• Part One: Studying Educational Technology Policy and Practice
• Part Two: Making Educational Technology Policy
• Conclusion: Learning from Local Needs
• Notes
• References
• About the Authors
• Index