TY - JOUR
T1 - Exploring pre-service teachers’ justifications for one-to-one technology use in schools
T2 - implications for initial teacher education
AU - McGarr, Oliver
AU - Ó Gallchóir, Ciarán
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2020, © 2020 Technology, Pedagogy and Education Association.
PY - 2020
Y1 - 2020
N2 - Set against the backdrop of a succession of educational technology policies in Ireland, influenced by international discourses, this study aimed to explore how Irish pre-service teachers justify the use of mobile technologies in schools. In order to achieve this, 23 pre-service teachers were presented with a vignette that asked them to justify the use of a one-to-one tablet initiative in school. The research found that pre-service teachers tended to justify the initiative, as they saw the increasing technification of schools and society as an inevitable process. In addition, they presented pragmatic reasons for using the technology rather than highlighting their educational/pedagogic value. This study points to the need to challenge pre-service teachers’ innovation-centric and techno-centric attitudes towards technology use. It also highlights the need for teacher educators, as a whole, to take a more active role in addressing this issue in teacher education programmes.
AB - Set against the backdrop of a succession of educational technology policies in Ireland, influenced by international discourses, this study aimed to explore how Irish pre-service teachers justify the use of mobile technologies in schools. In order to achieve this, 23 pre-service teachers were presented with a vignette that asked them to justify the use of a one-to-one tablet initiative in school. The research found that pre-service teachers tended to justify the initiative, as they saw the increasing technification of schools and society as an inevitable process. In addition, they presented pragmatic reasons for using the technology rather than highlighting their educational/pedagogic value. This study points to the need to challenge pre-service teachers’ innovation-centric and techno-centric attitudes towards technology use. It also highlights the need for teacher educators, as a whole, to take a more active role in addressing this issue in teacher education programmes.
KW - pre-service teachers
KW - Teacher education
KW - technology
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85087803531&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1080/1475939X.2020.1784261
DO - 10.1080/1475939X.2020.1784261
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85087803531
SN - 1475-939X
SP - 477
EP - 490
JO - Technology, Pedagogy and Education
JF - Technology, Pedagogy and Education
ER -