Abstract
Information and Communication Technology (ICT) has become an indispensable component of education around the world. Taking a comparative approach, Adolescent Well-Being and ICT Use: Social and Policy Implications examines the relationships among ICT usage, well-being, and social class background of adolescent students in 28 developed countries and societies. This chapter provides an overview of the research background, study design, and analytical framework. The introduction begins with a description of ICT’s role in education both before and during the COVID-19 pandemic, followed by a review of the four phases of the digital learning divide from the early 1990s to the 2020s. After an overview of the social and policy contexts of ICT use in education in affluent countries, the chapter ends with research questions, empirical data, and measures of key variables, as well as an outline of the organization of the book.
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Ma, J.KH., Cheng, S. (2022). Introduction. In: Adolescent Well-Being and ICT Use. Human Well-Being Research and Policy Making. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-04412-0_1
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