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| Personal Name | Lineses, Edwin Falcis |
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| Resource Title | Micropolitics of appropriation: the virtual learning environment policy in a higher education institution |
| Date Issued | February 2021 |
| Abstract | This study examines the micropolitics of policy appropriation, i.e., the negotiations over the official intent, meaning, and use of virtual learning environment (VLE), among school administrators, teachers, and students, viewed in the context of a higher education institution’s history and culture. At the same time, it analyzes the ways in which these negotiations are mediated by nonhuman actants (e.g. platform, internet, gadget, policy, and pandemic). The study deployed a variety of techniques of ethnographic investigation for a period of 10 months (August 2019 to May 2020). These included offline and online participant observation, lurking, documents review, and offline and online informal interviews. Observing reflexive and ethical practices in the conduct of education research, the study sought prior informed consent from research participants and observed the principles of confidentiality and anonymity. In framing the micropolitics of appropriation, the study followed certain leads from two theoretical orientations namely: the Anthropology of Policy (AoP) and the Actor-Network Theory (ANT). The AoP enabled the analysis of the various ways the purveyors of authorized VLE policy supported, controlled, and regulated the use of VLE in learning and instruction. At the same time, it facilitated the analysis of the narratives and practices reflecting the divergent ways the nonauthorized policy actors (teachers and students) interpret and respond to the policy in practices of conformity, ambivalence, token accommodation, and resistance. On the other hand, the ANT, drew attention to how the nonhuman actants afford and impose limits on the appropriations of the authorized and the nonauthorized policy actors. Falling under the rubric of educational ethnography, the study demonstrates the analytic value of AoP and ANT in understanding the nuances of policy appropriations generated by unequal power relations amongst the policymakers and the policy implementers. Such u |
| Degree Course | Doctor of Philosophy in Education (Anthropology/Sociology of Education) |
| Language | English |
| Keyword | distance education, computer-assisted instruction, educational technology, effect of technological innovations, micropolitics of appropriation, virtual learning environment, higher education institution, anthropology of policy, actor network theory |
| Material Type | Thesis/Dissertation |
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