Editorial: Global technologies, local practices

Michael Gallagher, Jeremy Knox

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Abstract

This special issue of Learning, Media and Technology contributes to a growing need, not only for critical accounts of digital education that resist the global, but also for a more diverse representation of the multiplicitous practices of teaching and learning with technology across the globe. It builds on important work that has examined open education initiatives in the Global South (Arinto et al. 2017) and highlighted ‘missing voices’ in educational technology development (Davis 2015). It is through such critical enquiry that research can continue to cut through the discursive regimes of simplistic disruption and enhancement from a pervasive education technology industry. This means aligning research in this area, less with grand narratives that portray digital education as an external and universal force capable of radical transformation, and more with accounts that acknowledge an already-present political economy of educational technology, in which specific devices and applications succumb to everyday practices of negotiation, consumption, and resistance, particular to the contexts in which they manifest.
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)225-234
Number of pages10
JournalLearning, Media and Technology
Volume44
Issue number3
Early online date15 Jul 2019
DOIs
Publication statusE-pub ahead of print - 15 Jul 2019

Keywords / Materials (for Non-textual outputs)

  • digital education
  • MOOC
  • marginalisation
  • edtech
  • Global South

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