Education technology policies in the Middle East : globalisation, neoliberalism and the knowledge economy /
By: Lightfoot, Michael
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BookPublisher: Switzerland : Palgrave, c2016.Description: xix, 191 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.ISBN: 9783319332666; 9783319332659Subject(s): Educational technology -- Middle East | Educational technology -- Government policy -- Middle East | Education and state -- Middle EastDDC classification: 371.33 LI ED Online resources: Location Map | Item type | Home library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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| 371.33 LE AR Learning tools and teaching approaches through ICT advancements / | 371.33 LE AR Learning tools and teaching approaches through ICT advancements / | 371.33 LE BR Bringing technology into the classroom / | 371.33 LI ED Education technology policies in the Middle East : | 371.33 LO LE Learning identities in a digital age : | 371.33 NE ED Educational technology for teaching and learning / | 371.33 PE NG Penguin Readers : |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction --
Chapter 1. Cultural and Educational Traditions in the MENA Region --
Chapter 2. Education in a Globalised Knowledge Economy --
Chapter 3. Educational Challenges in the Arab World --
Chapter 4. Structure and Agency in the MENA Region --
Theoretical Perspectives --
Chapter 5 --
Modernism Confronts Tradition --
Chapter 6. Reflections on the End of History --
Chapter 7. Bridging the Long Divergence. .
This book explores the potential educational technologies have for transforming education in the Middle East. Although technology has increasingly become a part of classrooms around the globe over recent decades, its application in classrooms in the MENA region remains underused and this book draws on a case study from the Arabian Gulf to examine the beneficial impact technologies have on teaching and learning. The book identifies the many social and cultural pressures that prevent government technology policies to be implemented in the way that the international community would find recognisable and acceptable and how education policy from the Global North is transplanted into a separate context without considering the different requirements. The study seeks to address the ways in which educational technology policy in government schools plays a part in the enactment of education reforms and how government policy aspirations are played out in practice.