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Disabling and enabling technologies for learning in Higher Education for all: Issues and challenges for whom?
University of Jönköping.
(PAUS)ORCID iD: 0000-0003-3674-3765
Karlstad Municipality.
2016 (English)In: Informatics, Vol. 3, no 21Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

Integration, inclusion, and equity constitute fundamental dimensions of democracy in post-World War II societies and their institutions. The study presented here reports upon the ways in which individuals and institutions both use and account for the roles that technologies, including ICT, play in disabling and enabling access for learning in higher education for all. Technological innovations during the 20th and 21st centuries, including ICT, have been heralded as holding significant promise for revolutionizing issues of access in societal institutions like schools, healthcare services, etc. (at least in the global North). Taking a socially oriented perspective, the study presented in this paper focuses on an ethnographically framed analysis of two datasets that critically explores the role that technologies, including ICT, play in higher education for individuals who are “differently abled” and who constitute a variation on a continuum of capabilities. Functionality as a dimension of everyday life in higher education in the 21st century is explored through the analysis of (i) case studies of two “differently abled” students in Sweden and (ii) current support services at universities in Sweden. The findings make visible the work that institutions and their members do through analyses of the organization of time and space and the use of technologies in institutional settings against the backdrop of individuals’ accountings and life trajectories. This study also highlights the relevance of multi-scale data analyses for revisiting the ways in which identity positions become framed or understood within higher education.

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2016. Vol. 3, no 21
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functionality, disability, technology, higher education, support services, ethnography, learning
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Pedagogy
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URN: urn:nbn:se:hb:diva-13577DOI: 10.3390/informatics3040021OAI: oai:DiVA.org:hb-13577DiVA, id: diva2:1175859
Available from: 2018-01-19 Created: 2018-01-19 Last updated: 2018-05-04Bibliographically approved

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