TY  - JOUR
A1  - Barnes, Jan
A1  - Kennewell, Steve
T1  - Teacher Perceptions of Key Competencies in ICT
JF  - KEYCIT 2014 - Key Competencies in Informatics and ICT
N2  - Regardless of what is intended by government curriculum
specifications and advised by educational experts, the competencies
taught and learned in and out of classrooms can vary considerably.
In this paper, we discuss in particular how we can investigate the
perceptions that individual teachers have of competencies in ICT,
and how these and other factors may influence students’ learning. We
report case study research which identifies contradictions within the
teaching of ICT competencies as an activity system, highlighting issues
concerning the object of the curriculum, the roles of the participants and
the school cultures. In a particular case, contradictions in the learning
objectives between higher order skills and the use of application tools
have been resolved by a change in the teacher’s perceptions which
have not led to changes in other aspects of the activity system. We look
forward to further investigation of the effects of these contradictions in
other case studies and on forthcoming curriculum change.
KW  - ICT competencies
KW  - Teacher perceptions
KW  - Activity Theory
KW  - Contradictions
Y1  - 2015
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-82604
SN  - 1868-0844
SN  - 2191-1940
IS  - 7
SP  - 61
EP  - 75
PB  - Universitätsverlag Potsdam
CY  - Potsdam
ER  -