Date Approved
4-22-2015
Embargo Period
3-3-2020
Document Type
Dissertation
Degree Name
Ed.D. Educational Leadership
Department
Educational Leadership
College
College of Education
Advisor
Rios, Hector
Subject(s)
Technological literacy; Public schools--Law and legislation
Disciplines
Elementary and Middle and Secondary Education Administration
Abstract
Exponential growth in technological innovations has changed the dynamics of global economic competition. These changes have redefined the relationships between economy and education, which has redirected national and state interest toward the development of human capital within public schools to meet the demands of a new knowledge-based economy (Martens, Rusconi, & Leuze, 2007; Sahlberg, 2006). This study will explore the effects of external controls on education as they affect reform policies, the technical core of teaching and learning, and teachers' development of technology competencies at an elementary school level within a socioeconomically disadvantaged setting. The study will attempt to determine whether externalized mechanisms of control created by federal and state policies are unintentionally hindering teachers' technological competency development as a result of competing demands to determine whether reform policies can or are unintentionally operating as technology immobilizing agents capable of creating digital inequality (Keller & Bichelmeyer, 2004; Lawton, McKevitt, & Millar, 2000).
Recommended Citation
Rodriguez, Oscar, "The effects of external controls on teachers' development of technology competencies in an economically disadvantaged district" (2015). Theses and Dissertations. 337.
https://rdw.rowan.edu/etd/337
