1st Edition
Developing the ICT Capable School
198 Pages
by
Routledge
200 Pages
by
Routledge
200 Pages
by
Routledge
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This book helps readers to improve the development of ICT capability through understanding the factors at work in whole school contexts. Based on research that examined schools' approaches to the development of pupils' ICT capability and identified the factors which lead to success, it provides practical advice, but with clear justifications in terms of well-researched principles and... Read more
Introduction 1. The context for ICT capability in schools: policy, research and practice 2. Developing ICT capability: providing opportunities and support 3. The role of senior management: driving the change 4. Co-ordinating ICT: linking policy and practice 5. ICT in the primary classroom: yet another subject to teach? 6. ICT in the secondary classroom: teaching someone else's subject? 7. The ICT specialist: establishing a new type of subject culture 8. Pupils' perspectives on ICT education: a clash of cultures? 9. Sharing perspectives across the phases of schooling: promoting continuity and progression 10. The ICT-capable school: an essential vision for the future
Biography
Steve Kennewell, John Parkinson, Howard Tanner
'Developing the ICT Capable School is very much a here-and-now book that will appeal primarily to managers in schools. The authors show a clear understanding of the issues confronting school managers trying to evolve practice with ICT in the whole school. - Angela McFarlane, Times Educational Supplement
