Educational computing in the elementary classroom

Abstract

Educational computing is one of several textually organized processes embedded in the social and cultural context of mass compulsory schooling. The work of teachers and students in the classroom is shaped by the administrative organization of schooling and by the cultural and political organization of the society. Data is drawn from interviews, observations and textual analyses of an urban school in Canada. The article suggests a line of research into the textual organization of educational computing. Further, the analysis brings into view the cultural spaces in elementary school classrooms within which a critical analysis of educational computing can be developed.