Cross National Policies and Practices on Computers in Education

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-viii

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2. Introduction

   • Tjeerd Plomp, Georgia Kontogiannopoulou-Polydorides, Ronald E. Anderson

   Pages 1-7

3. Curricular Aspects of Computers in Education

   • Tjeerd Plomp, Nienke Nieveen, Hans Pelgrum

   Pages 9-26

4. Cross-National Perspectives on Inequity in Computer Education

   • Ronald E. Anderson, Vicki Lundmark

   Pages 27-48

5. Educational Paradigms and Models of Computer Use does Technology Change Educational Practice?

   • Georgia Kontogiannopoulou-Polydorides

   Pages 49-83

6. The Austrian Context of Computers in Education

   • Günter Haider

   Pages 85-111

7. Policies and Practice in the Belgium French Community with Respect to Computers in Education

   • Elise Boxus, Dieudonne Leclercq, Charles Duchateau

   Pages 113-138

8. Teaching Informatics in the Bulgarian Schools

   • Petia Assenova, Rumen Nikolov, Ivan Stanchev, Jorjeta Koleva

   Pages 139-155

9. The Policies of China for Computers in Education

   • Jief Zhang

   Pages 157-173

10. New Information Technologies in the French Educational System

    • Serge Pouts-Lajus, Eric Barchechath, Noëlle Barre

    Pages 175-196

11. Computers and Education in the Federal Republic of Germany

    • Hans-Georg Rommel, Manfred Lang

    Pages 197-221

12. Greek Schools and Computer Education: Socio-Cultural Interpretations

    • Georgia Kontogiannopoulou-Polydorides, Stelios Georgakakos, Antonis Zavoudakis

    Pages 223-247

13. Computers in Education: The Indian Context

    • Ashok K. Sharma, Satvir Singh

    Pages 249-263

14. New Information Technology in the Irish School System: A Summary

    • Peter J. McKenna

    Pages 265-281

15. Japan’s National Policies on Computers in Education

    • Shizuo Matsubara

    Pages 283-298

16. The Korean Context of Computers in Education

    • Unna Huh

    Pages 299-317

17. Policies on Computers in Education in the Republic of Latvia

    • Andris Grinfelds, Andris Kangro

    Pages 319-338

18. The Luxembourg Context of Computers in Education

    • Alexis Werné

    Pages 339-357

19. Policies on Computers in Education in the Netherlands

    • Tjeerd Plomp, Erna Scholtes, Alfons Ten Brummelhuis

    Pages 359-380

20. The Slovenian Context of Computers in Education

    • Mojca Trobec, Marjan Setinc

    Pages 381-396

This book presents some of the results from the second stage of lEA's study of Computers in Education (CompEd). lEA, the International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement, conducts international comparative studies focussing on educational achievement, practices, and policies in various countries and education systems around the world. It has a Secretariat located in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. lEA studies have reported on a wide range of topics, each contributing to a deeper understanding of educational processes. The CompEd study is a project that sheds light on the way computers have been introduced in education and on how they are being used across the world today. The study proceeded in two stages with data collected for stage 1 in 1989 and for stage 2 in 1992. Results from both stages have been published in a variety of publications. This book reports about a special part of the study. Student achievement and school processes come into being in the context of the structure and the policies of national (or regional) education systems. The variety found in the CompEd results led us to ask how much might be explained by differences in these national or regional contexts. That is the reason the CompEd study took the initiative to invite the countries participating in the study, as well as some other countries that have had interesting developments in the domain of educational computers, to write a chapter describing their policies and practices regarding computers in education.

• Information Technology (IT)
• computer
• education
• educational system
• technology

• Faculty of Educational Science & Technology, University of Twente, The Netherlands

  Tjeerd Plomp

• Department of Sociology, University of Minnesota, USA

  Ronald E. Anderson

• Department of Education, University of Patras, Greece

  Georgia Kontogiannopoulou-Polydorides

Policies and ethics