- Title
- Enabling and constraining ICT practice in secondary schools: case studies in South Africa
- Creator
- Hodgkinson-Williams, Cheryl
- Creator
- Siebörger, Ingrid
- Creator
- Terzoli, Alfredo
- Date Issued
- 2007
- Date
- 2007
- Type
- text
- Type
- article
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/428923
- Identifier
- vital:72546
- Identifier
- https://www.inderscienceonline.com/doi/epdf/10.1504/IJKL.2007.015551
- Description
- The use of Information Communication Technology (ICT) in education is being seen as a way of widening access to education, particularly in developing countries. This paper addresses the issue of ICT implemen-tation in secondary schools and focuses specifically on the practices that enable or constrain the successful implementation of ICT for teach-ing and learning activities. It reflects upon the lessons learned from a collective case study undertaken in 12 of the 13 secondary schools in Grahamstown in the Eastern Cape in South Africa. School principals and designated IT teachers were interviewed and on-site infrastructure audits conducted. This paper identifies a number of key enabling and constraining factors surrounding practical issues, including sufficient hardware, appropriate software and affordable connectivity, sufficient technical support and training, policy-related issues such as the role of national, provincial and school policy, the vital contribution of principal leadership and champion teachers as well as ongoing teacher profes-sional development coupled with a willingness to change.
- Format
- 19 pages
- Format
- Language
- English
- Relation
- International Journal of knowledge and Learning
- Relation
- Hodgkinson-Williams, C., Sieborger, I. and Terzoli, A., 2007. Enabling and constraining ICT practice in secondary schools: case studies in South Africa. International Journal of knowledge and Learning, 3(2-3), pp.171-190
- Relation
- International Journal of knowledge and Learning volume 3 number 2-3 171 190 2007 1741-1017
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- Rights
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