Teachers Among Modern Technologies

Author(s):

Jiri ZounekKlara Sedova

Conference:

ECER 2008

Network:

16. ICT in Education and Training

Format:

Paper

Session Information

16 SES 06B, Teachers and ICT

Paper Session

Time:

2008-09-11

10:30-12:00

Room:

B4 416

Chair:

Ed Smeets

Contribution

The paper is an output of the second stage of research project “Information and Communication Technologies in Everyday Work of Teachers” (Czech Science Foundation, Ref. No. 406/06/1022). The central topic of the research was information and communication technologies (ICT) with respect to teachers and their everyday work in primary schools. The goal of the project was to explore and describe the ways in which ICT are becoming part of everyday work of teachers as the key agents in formal education. We studied relevant processes, at the level of individual teaching careers on the one hand and at the level of everyday decisions concerning the use of ICT, implementation of this use and its reflection on the other.

Method

The empirical research was structured into two stages. The first stage was qualitative, based on the grounded theory. This stage consisted in in-depth interviews with primary school teachers (ISCED 1 and 2) and qualitative observation of ICT use in class. Collected data were coded, classified and grounded in the so-called pragmatic model. The output of this stage is a theory at the level of hypotheses. The second stage consisted in quantitative testing of this theory. The basic method used for data collection was a questionnaire administered to teachers, construed based on hypotheses formulated as an output of the first stage of the research.

Expected Outcomes

The paper presents the results of the second stage of the research, i.e. analyses of data from the questionnaire distributed to teachers in a random selection of South Moravian schools. The results describe the ways in which Czech teachers use ICT, the motivations and barriers playing a role when the teachers are making their decisions about ICT use and the effects brought about by the use of technologies in class.

References

ŠEĎOVÁ, Klára, ZOUNEK, Jiří. Teachers, ICT and power in class. In European Conference on Educational Research, 19. – 21. September 2007, University of Ghent, Belgium. ŠEĎOVÁ, Klára. Média jako pedagogické téma. [Media as an educationalist topic.] Pedagogika, Praha : PedF UK, 2004, 1, p. 19 - 33. ZOUNEK, Jiří, ŠEĎOVÁ, Klára. ICT v přípravě na výuku. [ICT in preparation for class.] In Svět výchovy a vzdělávání v reflexi současného pedagogického výzkumu. [The world of upbringing and education as reflected by current research in educational sciences; CD-ROM]. České Budějovice: Jihočeská univerzita v Českých Budějovicích, 2007, p. 1-7. ISBN 978-80-7040-991-6. ZOUNEK, Jiří. ICT v životě základních škol. [ICT in Elementary School.] Praha : Triton, 2006. 160 p. ISBN 80-7254-858-1

Author Information

Jiri Zounek

Masaryk university

Department of Educational Sciences

Brno

Klara Sedova

Masaryk University

Department of Educational Sciences

Brno

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