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Digital Technologies for Learning, Teaching and Assessment: Tackling the Perennial Problem of Policy and Practice

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Towards a Collaborative Society Through Creative Learning (WCCE 2022)

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Education policy implementation is a complex, evolving process that involves many stakeholders often with seemingly conflicting and opposing visions. This paper presents an account of work in progress in which the authors are conducting an analysis of the enactment of a strategy for digital learning in schools in Ireland. The aim of the study is both to analyse and theorise the extent to which the policy has achieved its aims but also to identify a means of tackling the perennial challenge of policy development and enactment at the school and classroom level. This paper presents the findings of the first phase of analysis.

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    Deirdre Butler & Margaret Leahy

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  1. School of Education, La Trobe University, Deepdene, VIC, Australia

    Therese Keane

  2. Education and Social Research Institute, Manchester Metropolitan University, Manchester, UK

    Cathy Lewin

  3. University of Duisburg-Essen, Essen, Germany

    Torsten Brinda

  4. Istituto Tecnologie Didattiche, Consiglio Nazioanale delle Ricerche, Genoa, Genova, Italy

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Butler, D., Leahy, M. (2023). Digital Technologies for Learning, Teaching and Assessment: Tackling the Perennial Problem of Policy and Practice. In: Keane, T., Lewin, C., Brinda, T., Bottino, R. (eds) Towards a Collaborative Society Through Creative Learning. WCCE 2022. IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology, vol 685. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-43393-1_61

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