User:Charmaine

I am a PhD candidate in the faculty of education at the University of Alberta. My research interests include technology policy, professional development and educational reform.

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Thesis
My doctoral research focuses on the relationship between discourse and power through a critical analysis of educational policy texts. In order to generate a more nuanced understanding of how policy texts put forward a way of thinking about technology, teaching and learning, I have interviewed individuals from a cross-section of the policy development field. The questions guiding my inquiry are:
 * What are the common sense or nodal discourses are influencing technology education policy and what are the assumptions sustaining them? *Who is silenced or harmed by the adoption and promotion of these nodal discourses?

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