User:Jakob

I am pursuing a graduate degree in Educational Anthropology at the School of Education, University of Aarhus, in Denmark. I have a background as a teacher in the Danish primary and lower secondary school. My interest is in the cultural and social processes that emerge when a learning tool such as the XO is implemented in the classroom and the social practice where education and learning takes place. This with the underlying basis that the technological and material artifacts that are being implemented globally are important participants in the negotiation of what education and schooling is in the local settings. From September – November 2008 I have been given permission to carry out an ethnographic field study at Glen Iris Elementary School in Birmingham, Alabama. This field work should lead to a field report and my future dissertation about OLPC.