Open this publication in new window or tab >>2024 (English)In: Learning, Media & Technology, ISSN 1743-9884, E-ISSN 1743-9892, Vol. 49, no 2, p. 230-243Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]
This study addresses normative orientations to smartphone use in Swedish upper-secondary classrooms. We present a Nexus Analysis from a policy enactment perspective of a material comprising ethnographic interviews, classroom video observations, and smartphone screen capture, investigating how a cultural conception of the smartphone as a source of disturbance is negotiated in discursive and embodied social action. Three groups of policy actors – head teachers, teachers, and students – balance competing agendas such as digitalization strategies, popular media narratives, and student autonomy and peer relationship maintenance. There is a tension between orientations to the smartphone as a legitimate resource for socialization and learning in the digitalized classroom, but also as an exception to desired digitalization – a potential threat to the social and disciplinary order of the classroom. Notably, the students display considerable awareness of such tensions, in reflective comments made in interviews and in displayed strategies for managing their smartphones in class.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Taylor & Francis, 2024
Keywords
Smartphones, digitalization, learning and technology, policy enactment, classroom ethnography
National Category
Educational Sciences
Research subject
Education; Educational Work
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:kau:diva-91917 (URN)10.1080/17439884.2022.2124268 (DOI)000854787700001 ()2-s2.0-85138156977 (Scopus ID)
Projects
Uppkopplade klassrum (VR/UVK 2015-01044)
Funder
Swedish Research Council, 2015-01044
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2022-09-152022-09-152024-07-08Bibliographically approved