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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. |
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My name is Jakob Neergaard Hausted. I study educational anthropology at the Danish University of Denmark, Aarhus. I have a background as a teacher in elementary schools. My subjects are: Danish, history, music and athletics. |
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Right now I’m planning an anthropological fieldwork from September to November 2008 at one of the schools where the XO is being launched - hopefully in Birmingham Alabama. |
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Some of my objectives in this fieldwork are to see how the XO influences the people’s daily life – students, teachers and parents as well. |
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How does the XO affect the relations and interactions between the different actors? How do they use the laptop, and what meaning does it produce to them? |
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Which learning strategies do the pupils make use of, and is it possible to say something about the children’s educational strategies? How does the XO affect the teacher’s authority and his educational strategies? |
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This is just some of my thoughts and new questions will most likely appear in the OLPC project depending on the given context. |
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Latest revision as of 19:14, 7 August 2008
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.