Educational technology : a presupposition of equality?

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    Abstract

    The work of philosopher Jacques Rancière is used conceptually and methodologically to frame an exploration of the driving interests in educational technology policy and the sanctioning of particular discursive constructions of pedagogy that result. In line with Rancière’s thinking, the starting point for this analysis is that of equality – that people are legally, morally, intellectually, and in their everyday practices discursively equal. The use of Rancière’s concepts, demos, police, and politics, to analyse three educational technology policies internationally shows that teachers are positioned within these policies as discursively unequal, and as intellectually inferior, not only in terms of technology expertise, but crucially as pedagogues. This positioning has important implications for teachers and teacher education. Teachers are capable of recognising and critiquing inequality, and this article makes a case for an act of politics that aims to reconfigure allocated identities and power imbalances in the educational technology order.
    Original languageEnglish
    Pages (from-to)347-362
    Number of pages16
    JournalAsia-Pacific Journal of Teacher Education
    Volume42
    Issue number4
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 2014

    Keywords

    • Rancière, Jacques
    • democracy
    • equality

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