Session Information
16 SES 05 B, ICT in Schools (part 1)
Symposium, to be continued in Session 16 SES 06 B
Contribution
Specialists in the study of educational change argue time and again that any reform or educational innovation that strives for educational excellence will fail unless they are meaningfully linked to schools' unique cultures. School culture refers to a group of mostly implicit shared beliefs, customs, and behaviour. A school’s culture includes the obvious elements of schedules, curriculum, demographics, and policies, as well as the social interactions that occur within those structures and give a school its look and feel as “friendly,” “elite,” “competitive,” “collaborative,” etc. The lack of collaboration among teachers found in many schools due to a balkanised culture made up of separate and competing groups works against school improvement and all the claims about the power of technology to foster collaboration and learning. Taking these considerations into account, this paper discusses how school culture, in two primary and two secondary schools, has been affected by the policy and implementation of technology to support learning. It shows part of the results of the R&D project “Policy and Practice regarding ICT in Education: Implication for Educational Innovation and Improvement” .
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