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Title: Internet, escola i comunitat en el trànsit cap a la societat xarxa. La incorporació d'internet al sistema educatiu de Catalunya per al desenvolupament comunitari
Author: Meneses, Julio  
Director: Mominó de la Iglesia, Josep Maria
Others: Universitat Oberta de Catalunya. Internet Interdisciplinary Institute (IN3)
Abstract: In recent years, there has been widespread interest in the implementation of information and communication technologies (ICT) in schools. While most efforts have been directed to studying their introduction in teaching and learning as tools to facilitate the access, management, and processing of information, empirical investigation has not yet paid proper attention to the specific ways ICT foster and support social interaction and community involvement. Adopting a community approach, this PhD dissertation focuses on the incorporation of ICT, and particularly the internet, into the organization and everyday functioning of classrooms and schools in a broad sense, including students¿ and teachers¿ interactions, patterns of collaboration amongst the teaching staff, school administration, and the opening of the school to families, other professionals, and the local community. To do so, the dissertation is based on a compilation of research papers developed as part of the ¿Schooling in the network society: The internet in primary and secondary education¿ and ¿Integration of the internet in Spanish school education: The current situation and prospects¿ projects. This research reveals that the Catalan education system is a sparsely connected system where the introduction of the internet does not appear to spark a substantial revolution in the established community-oriented practices, as well as one that plays a secondary role in the promotion of the digital inclusion of children and young people in the Catalan society.
Keywords: internet
primary and secondary education
quality in education
school effectiveness and school improvement
community
social capital
internet studies
digital divide
digital inequality
Document type: info:eu-repo/semantics/doctoralThesis
Issue Date: 5-Jun-2015
Publication license: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/es/  
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