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The sustainable implementation of computers in school districts : a case study in the Free State Province of South Africa
Thesis (PhD (Curriculum Studies))--University of Pretoria, 2006.
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| spelling | oai:repository.up.ac.za:2263/29358 The sustainable implementation of computers in school districts : a case study in the Free State Province of South Africa Cronje, Johannes Christoffel thomash.rd@mail.uovs.ac.za Thomas, H.E. (Herbert Ernest) Postmodern South africa Sustainability Computers Schools Implementation Complexity Calis Free sate UCTD Thesis (PhD (Curriculum Studies))--University of Pretoria, 2006. This study investigates influences on the sustainability of a computers-in-schools project during the implementation phase thereof. The CALIS Project (1992-1996) is the unit of analysis. A qualitative case study research design is used to elicit data, in the form of participant narratives, from people who were involved in the regional management of the Project, as well as teachers who implemented the Project in their classrooms. These narratives are then analysed from a post-modern perspective (Kvale, 1996). The analysis reveals personal, programmatic, physical and systemic influences on the Project. These influences can be identified on all structural levels of the education system (Mooij and Smeets, 2001). Furthermore, metaphoric patterning across narratives is analysed in terms of implicatures, postulated by Relevance Theory (Sperber and Wilson, 1995). Analysis of the data provides evidence in support of Fullan’s (2005) definition of sustainability as a quality of dynamic, complex systems. Personal, programmatic, physical and systemic influences on the Project are found to be interrelated on, and across, structural levels of the system. In addition, influences are dynamically related to the changing Project in particular host environments (Cavallo, 2004). The resulting ecological or viral growth is characteristic of complex systems, where further development is indeterminate. Curriculum Studies unrestricted 2013-09-07T15:29:36Z 2006-11-10 2013-09-07T15:29:36Z 2006-09-07 2006-11-10 2006-11-09 Thesis Thomas, H 2006, The sustainable implementation of computers in school districts : a case study in the Free State Province of South Africa, PhD thesis, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, viewed yymmdd < http://hdl.handle.net/2263/29358 > http://hdl.handle.net/2263/29358 http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-11092006-185713/ © 2006, University of Pretoria. All rights reserved. The copyright in this work vests in the University of Pretoria. No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, without the prior written permission of the University of Pretoria. application/pdf application/pdf application/pdf application/pdf application/pdf application/pdf application/pdf University of Pretoria |
| spellingShingle | Postmodern South africa Sustainability Computers Schools Implementation Complexity Calis Free sate UCTD The sustainable implementation of computers in school districts : a case study in the Free State Province of South Africa |
| title | The sustainable implementation of computers in school districts : a case study in the Free State Province of South Africa |
| title_full | The sustainable implementation of computers in school districts : a case study in the Free State Province of South Africa |
| title_fullStr | The sustainable implementation of computers in school districts : a case study in the Free State Province of South Africa |
| title_full_unstemmed | The sustainable implementation of computers in school districts : a case study in the Free State Province of South Africa |
| title_short | The sustainable implementation of computers in school districts : a case study in the Free State Province of South Africa |
| title_sort | sustainable implementation of computers in school districts a case study in the free state province of south africa |
| topic | Postmodern South africa Sustainability Computers Schools Implementation Complexity Calis Free sate UCTD |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/2263/29358 http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-11092006-185713/ |