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Introduction
- thesis structure overview
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Key research questions
- 1. Why ICT4E fail so often?
- 2. What are the roles of the different stakeholder in the ICT4E scene?
- 3. How is the power negotiated through the use of technology, both instrumentally and symbolically?
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Methodological approach
- ethnography
- Case study generated data
- Analysis
- Conclusions
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Theoretical framework
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Epistemology
- Constructionist
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Definition of key terms
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Power and empowerment
- confirmative
- emancipatory
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Aid
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brief history of aid
- Metaphors of aid over time
- medical
- commercial
- humanitarian/assistive
- Rhetoric of aid
- Sustainability vs resiliance
- power vs empowerment
- Capacity building
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Typology of aid intevention
- Bilateral cooperation between ex colonizer and ex colonized
- postcolonialism
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Education
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Pedagogical approaches
- Instructionist
- Constructionist
- Power vs empowerment
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Technology
- as tool
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as status symbol
- attitudes towards technology among burundians teachers
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as power enhancer
- confirmative
- emancipatory
- i.e. proprietary vs FOSSE
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Case study context
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Burundi
- Overview (UN stats)
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Brief history
- Belgian colony
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ICTs in Africa
- Burundi
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Overall project description
- Stakeholders Analysis
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Specific subproject description
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Aims and implementation methods
- Logframe
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Methodology
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Ethnographic methods
- Ethnosnapshots
- Net-map
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fieldnotes
- textual
- video
- photos
- Interviews
- Selection process data on teachers attitudes towards technology
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Analysis methods
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CAQDAS?
- Atlas.ti or similar
- Net-map analysis
- photo-story
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Data generation
- Ethnosnapshots
- Net-map
- Selection process data on teachers attitudes towards technology
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fieldnotes
- textual
- video
- photos
- Interviews
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Analysis
- How is technology in schools affecting locals in terms of empowerment? Who is empowered?
- How has the power structure of the school changed aftere the introduction of technology? Why?
- Why is technology left unused, if this is the case?
- In what sense is technology in schools misused? According to which and whose assumptions?
- Conclusions