ICT policy planning in a context of curriculum reform: Disentanglement of ICT policy domains and artifacts
ARTICLE
Ruben Vanderlinde, Johan van Braak, Sara Dexter
Computers & Education Volume 58, Number 4, ISSN 0360-1315 Publisher: Elsevier Ltd
Abstract
Researchers and policy makers around the world are increasingly acknowledging the importance of developing a school-based ICT policy plan to facilitate the integration of information and communication technology (ICT) in education. Despite this interest, not much is known about how schools can develop their local ICT policy capacity and how to establish an ICT policy plan. In order to fill the gap in research on ICT policy planning, a multiple case study analysis with a mixed-method design was carried out with three Flemish primary schools. Primary schools in Flanders are encouraged by the government to develop local ICT policy planning in a context of ICT curriculum reform. Data from multiple sources (e.g. interviews with school leaders and ICT coordinators, focus group interviews with teachers, school policy document analysis, and a teacher questionnaire) were gathered and analyzed. The results indicate that ICT policy planning in schools should be considered as a multifaceted phenomenon grounded in school culture. ICT policy consists of different policy domains: vision development, financial policy, infrastructural policy, continuing professional development policy, and curriculum policy. Each policy domain can be described in terms of policy artifacts (tools, routines, and structures), and differences exist between schools concerning the involvement of teachers in the policy planning process and in the distribution of management tasks. As such, the study illustrates a distributed leadership perspective on ICT school policy planning. The results are of particular importance for school leaders, ICT coordinators and professional development trainers, and illustrates that ICT school policy is as much about developing shared meanings among stakeholders for ICT, and coordinating their relations and interactions in keeping with the school’s culture as it is about content related decisions.
Citation
Vanderlinde, R., van Braak, J. & Dexter, S. (2012). ICT policy planning in a context of curriculum reform: Disentanglement of ICT policy domains and artifacts. Computers & Education, 58(4), 1339-1350. Elsevier Ltd. Retrieved August 10, 2024 from https://www.learntechlib.org/p/67485/.
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Full text is availabe on Science Direct: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.compedu.2011.12.007Keywords
- case studies
- case study
- communications
- curriculum development
- Educational Change
- Financial Policy
- focus groups
- Foreign Countries
- ICT curriculum
- ICT policy planning
- Information Communication Technologies
- information technology
- Interviews
- leadership
- Mixed Method
- Primary Education
- professional development
- Researchers
- school culture
- School Policy
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