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1 online resource |
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Cover; Title page; Copyright page; Praise for this Book; Preface; Préface; Contents; Acronyms and Abbreviations; Overview; Vue d'ensemble; Chapter 1 -- Context, Problems and Research Questions; What pedagogies for the times?; Proliferation of ICT in society and in education in Africa; Effects of ICT use in teaching and learning; Research questions and objectives; Chapter 2 -- Key Concepts; Socio-constructivism; Appropriation as part of the ongoing construction of culture; Appropriation in communication and media studies; Appropriation of technology and of new teaching practices |
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Appropriation: A recapitulationConcepts in relation to the research objective; Chapter 3 -- Methodology; Why a qualitative research methodology?; Drawing on interpretive and critical epistemologies; Participants; Data collection and analysis; Deontological considerations; Strengths and limits of the methodological approach; Chapter 4 -- Research Results; Chapter 5 -- Blacksmiths of Internet in African Classrooms; Abstract; Résumé; Indigenous and foreign influences in African education; Review of concepts and study participants; ICT meshes into everyday life |
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Teachers use ICT in relation to pedagogical goals and objectivesTeachers perceive ICT-associated changes; Shifts in pedagogy, roles and relations, classrooms and schools; Harnessing ICT for its transformative possibilities; Exciting, ambiguous, and bumpy journey; Chapter 6 -- Teachers Dialoguing about ICT at the Borders of Transformative Possibilities; Abstract; Résumé; Cultural renewal through appropriation; Review of study participants; Teachers' conversations with other teachers; Teachers' conversations with school and district directors; Teachers' conversations with pedagogical advisors |
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Teachers' conversations with parentsConversations with people in the community; Collectively exploring the potentialities of ICT in education; Teachers as border pedagogues and cultural workers; Pedagogical appropriation of ICT, a social and dialogical process; Chapter 7 -- Pourquoi les professeurs ouest-africains s'approprientils l'internet?; Abstract; Résumé; Contexte de déstabilisation par l'éducation coloniale; Concepts de culture et d'appropriation des technologies; Itinéraires TIC de six professeurs; Découverte des possibilités pédagogiques des TIC |
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Désir d'être présent dans le monde scientifique et de transformer la cultureUn va et vient entre le nouveau et l'ancien; Chapter 8 -- Conclusions and Recommendations; Review of research results; ICT and inequalities and inequities; Evidence of changes with the use of ICT; ICT, ruptura and potential for change; Limits of the research; Strengths and contributions of the research; Recommendations; Future research; References; Afterword of acknowledgments; Back cover |
| Summary |
West African teachers and professors who are appropriating information and communication technologies (ICT) are making it part and parcel of education and everyday life. In Mali and beyond, they adapt ICT to their milieus and work as cultural agents, mediating between technology and society. They yearn to use ICT to make education more relevant to life, facilitate and enhance African participation in global debates and scholarly production, and evolve how Africa and Africans are projected and perceived. In sum, educators are harnessing ICT for its transformative possibilities. The changes apparent in student-teacher relations (more interactive) and classrooms (more dialogical) suggest that ICT can be a catalyst for pedagogical change, including in document-poor contexts and ones weighed down by legacies of colonialism. Learning from the perspectives and experiences of educators pioneering the use of ICT in education in Africa can inform educational theory, practice and policy and deepen understandings of the concept of appropriation as a process of cultural change |
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Print version record |
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Education -- Effect of technological innovations on -- Africa, West
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Information technology -- Africa, West
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Educational technology -- Africa, West
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African history.
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EDUCATION / Computers & Technology.
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Education -- Effect of technological innovations on
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Educational technology
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Information technology
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West Africa
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9956763314 |
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9789956763313 |
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