Abstract
The COVID-19 pandemic destabilized the prevailing grammar of schooling and forced schools to rely on digital technologies to create new routines and practices. This offers a unique opportunity to examine the interplay between digital technologies and the temporospatial features of schooling, and how these relations were mediated via contextual features. Based on semi-structured interviews with principals and teachers in Muslim-Palestinian and secular-Jewish schools in Jerusalem, this paper qualitatively analyzes the main technological tools used by educators: instant messaging (WhatsApp), video-conferencing (Zoom) and school-wide platforms (Google Classroom). Our findings stress how technological affordances varied according to socioeconomic status and diverging perceptions of schooling. Specifically, we found that lower-SES Palestinian schools, who faced more acute challenges, utilized digital technologies to restabilize the grammar of schooling in order to monitor and support students' basic needs, whereas average-SES Jewish schools focused on facilitating informal interactions that catered to students' emotional wellbeing.
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | International Collaboration toward Educational Innovation for All |
Subtitle of host publication | Overarching Research, Development, and Practices - 16th International Conference of the Learning Sciences, ICLS 2022 |
Editors | Clark Chinn, Edna Tan, Carol Chan, Yael Kali |
Publisher | International Society of the Learning Sciences (ISLS) |
Pages | 1013-1016 |
Number of pages | 4 |
ISBN (Electronic) | 9781737330653 |
State | Published - 2022 |
Event | 16th International Conference of the Learning Sciences, ICLS 2022 - Virtual, Online, Japan Duration: 6 Jun 2022 → 10 Jun 2022 |
Publication series
Name | Proceedings of International Conference of the Learning Sciences, ICLS |
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ISSN (Print) | 1814-9316 |
Conference
Conference | 16th International Conference of the Learning Sciences, ICLS 2022 |
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Country/Territory | Japan |
City | Virtual, Online |
Period | 6/06/22 → 10/06/22 |
Bibliographical note
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