Children's Participation in Evaluating the Role of New Information and Communication Technologies in Schools

  • Authors:
  • Toni Downes

  • Affiliations:
  • Faculty of Education and Languages, University of Western Sydney, Macarthur, P.O. Box 555, Campbelltown NSW 2560, Australiat.downes@uws.edu.au

  • Venue:
  • Education and Information Technologies
  • Year:
  • 1999

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Abstract

The central thesis of the paper is that children should be accorded a greater role in the evaluation of the role of new information technologies in schools, that is, where possible they should be stakeholders who help shape the design, processes and interpretations of evaluation studies as well as informants who provide data for the study. Arguments for this position draw on children's special relationship with the new technologies as well as current movements in children's rights and the development of a new paradigm of childhood studies. The paper finishes with a discussion of some of the issues that might arise from involving children as stakeholders.