A community-based approach to new medium integration in South African education : a combination of ICT4D process approach and ethnographic action research techniques

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dc.contributor.advisorMarsden, Garyen_ZA
dc.contributor.authorTangkuampien, Jakkaphanen_ZA
dc.date.accessioned2014-12-30T19:57:52Z
dc.date.available2014-12-30T19:57:52Z
dc.date.issued2013en_ZA
dc.descriptionIncludes bibliographical references.en_ZA
dc.description.abstractOur initial study indicates that successful integration of new communication medium into South African schools is not only challenging from the financial point of view, but also in terms of designing tools that fit within educational goals, as well as the training and support of relevant personnel in order to use the new medium effectively. Training and support effort, however, are often seen as top-down or outside-in approach that many teachers and past integration efforts have identified as being one of the contributing factors to integration failure. By looking at past integration efforts, as well as through our own initial study and in the field, we recognise similar results and challenges in efforts to introduce information and communication technologies into developing communities. Work done by Heeks et al. (Heeks & Molla, 2009) (Walton & Heeks, 2011) identified the Process approach as a contributing factor towards successful Information and communication technologies for development projects. We developed a novel approach to medium integration in education by combining the Process approach with Ethnographical Action Research techniques as well as taking into account recommendations made by past medium integration in education. To evaluate our approach we implemented the Process approach at an Ethnographical Action Research site with the researcher as one of the teachers with the objective of integrating the mobile medium into the school.en_ZA
dc.identifier.apacitationTangkuampien, J. (2013). <i>A community-based approach to new medium integration in South African education : a combination of ICT4D process approach and ethnographic action research techniques</i>. (Thesis). University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Science ,Department of Computer Science. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/11427/10671en_ZA
dc.identifier.chicagocitationTangkuampien, Jakkaphan. <i>"A community-based approach to new medium integration in South African education : a combination of ICT4D process approach and ethnographic action research techniques."</i> Thesis., University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Science ,Department of Computer Science, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/10671en_ZA
dc.identifier.citationTangkuampien, J. 2013. A community-based approach to new medium integration in South African education : a combination of ICT4D process approach and ethnographic action research techniques. University of Cape Town.en_ZA
dc.identifier.ris TY - Thesis / Dissertation AU - Tangkuampien, Jakkaphan AB - Our initial study indicates that successful integration of new communication medium into South African schools is not only challenging from the financial point of view, but also in terms of designing tools that fit within educational goals, as well as the training and support of relevant personnel in order to use the new medium effectively. Training and support effort, however, are often seen as top-down or outside-in approach that many teachers and past integration efforts have identified as being one of the contributing factors to integration failure. By looking at past integration efforts, as well as through our own initial study and in the field, we recognise similar results and challenges in efforts to introduce information and communication technologies into developing communities. Work done by Heeks et al. (Heeks & Molla, 2009) (Walton & Heeks, 2011) identified the Process approach as a contributing factor towards successful Information and communication technologies for development projects. We developed a novel approach to medium integration in education by combining the Process approach with Ethnographical Action Research techniques as well as taking into account recommendations made by past medium integration in education. To evaluate our approach we implemented the Process approach at an Ethnographical Action Research site with the researcher as one of the teachers with the objective of integrating the mobile medium into the school. DA - 2013 DB - OpenUCT DP - University of Cape Town LK - https://open.uct.ac.za PB - University of Cape Town PY - 2013 T1 - A community-based approach to new medium integration in South African education : a combination of ICT4D process approach and ethnographic action research techniques TI - A community-based approach to new medium integration in South African education : a combination of ICT4D process approach and ethnographic action research techniques UR - http://hdl.handle.net/11427/10671 ER - en_ZA
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11427/10671
dc.identifier.vancouvercitationTangkuampien J. A community-based approach to new medium integration in South African education : a combination of ICT4D process approach and ethnographic action research techniques. [Thesis]. University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Science ,Department of Computer Science, 2013 [cited yyyy month dd]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/11427/10671en_ZA
dc.language.isoengen_ZA
dc.publisher.departmentDepartment of Computer Scienceen_ZA
dc.publisher.facultyFaculty of Scienceen_ZA
dc.publisher.institutionUniversity of Cape Town
dc.subject.otherComputer Scienceen_ZA
dc.titleA community-based approach to new medium integration in South African education : a combination of ICT4D process approach and ethnographic action research techniquesen_ZA
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