ERIC Number: EJ1378244
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2023
Pages: 13
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ISSN: ISSN-1743-9884
EISSN: EISSN-1743-9892
The Platform Classroom: Troubling Student Configurations in a Danish Primary School
Learning, Media and Technology, v48 n1 p52-64 2023
Spanning parent-communication and administration to content delivery and student monitoring, platforms have become an integral part of contemporary schooling. Building on two ethnographic episodes occurring in a Danish primary school in January 2020, this article engages in an analysis and discussion of how the ongoing "platformization" of schools affects the day-to-day relations of teachers and students in a 2nd and 9th grade class. The article draws on a posthuman theoretical framework to give an account of how two common education platforms used in the Danish primary school system -- the "MathFessor" platform for mathematics, and the "Gyldendal" portal for Danish language lessons -- become problematically constitutive of what and who matters in classroom interactions. By emphasizing and theorizing the relational embeddedness of education platforms, the episodes serve as invitations for a greater attentiveness to what bodies in schools can and cannot do in classroom-based platform practices. An attentiveness which, it is argued, extends well beyond the instrumental discourses of personalization, innovation, and efficiency surrounding the implementation and use of platforms in schools.
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Students, Learning Management Systems, Grade 2, Grade 9, Educational Technology, Mathematics Education, Electronic Learning, Humanism, Language Arts, Pronunciation
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive
Education Level: Elementary Education; Early Childhood Education; Grade 2; Primary Education; Grade 9; High Schools; Junior High Schools; Middle Schools; Secondary Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Denmark
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