Status : Verified
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 theoreti |
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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Category : F - Regular work, i.e., it has no patentable invention or creation, the author does not wish for personal publication, there is no confidential information.
Access Permission : Open Access