The platform classroom: Troubling student configurations in a Danish primary school
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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.
Originalsprog | Engelsk |
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Tidsskrift | Learning, Media and Technology |
Vol/bind | 48 |
Udgave nummer | 1 |
Sider (fra-til) | 52-64 |
Antal sider | 13 |
ISSN | 1743-9884 |
DOI | |
Status | Udgivet - 2023 |
ID: 372691666