(Un)Balanced Conversations: Participatory Action Research in Technology Development in Peruvian Primary Schools

Research on the Impact of the Information Society in the Global South: An Introduction to SIRCA

“…Conversion factors influence both the enablement of teaching and learning as well as the ability of teachers and students to make choices. Olivera et al (2015), in their chapter '(Un)Balanced conversations: Participatory action research in technology development in peruvian primary schools', examine the value of utilising participatory action research, involving teachers in the technological design process for educational applications developed for Peruvian primary schools. The authors acknowledge that there is a constant challenge to design successful technical solutions that fully deliver intended capabilities (Rodriguez et al 2012) as these programmes are operating in resource-constrained environments that are further complicated by social, psychological, geographic and cultural differences (Chib and Zhao 2009).…”