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A Sociocritical Perspective on the Integration of Digital Technology in Education

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Second Handbook of Information Technology in Primary and Secondary Education

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This chapter aims to present what could be the contribution of a socio-critical approach for the benefit of digital equity in education. It begins with the presentation of the main issues of digital equity in education. It continues with the presentation of the need and the foundations of that socio-critical approach on digital technologies in education and ends with the main lines of research aligned with such a perspective.

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  1. Department of Pedagogy, University of Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, QC, Canada

    Jean Gabin Ntebutse

  2. Université du Québec à Montréal, Montreal, QC, Canada

    Simon Collin

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  1. University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

    Joke Voogt

  2. University of North Texas, Denton, Texas, USA

    Gerald Knezek

  3. University of North Texas, Denton, Texas, USA

    Rhonda Christensen

  4. University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand

    Kwok-Wing Lai

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  1. Université Laval, Quebec City, Canada

    Therese Laferrière

  2. University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, USA

    Paul Resta

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Ntebutse, J.G., Collin, S. (2018). A Sociocritical Perspective on the Integration of Digital Technology in Education. In: Voogt, J., Knezek, G., Christensen, R., Lai, KW. (eds) Second Handbook of Information Technology in Primary and Secondary Education . Springer International Handbooks of Education. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-71054-9_73

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