Discourse, Educational Policy & Technology
The scalar construction of identity
Keywords:
technology. identity. scalar analysis. educational policy.Abstract
Plan Ceibal is a social, technological and education policy that seeks to promote the use of technology in Uruguayan classrooms. As text (Ball 2006), it aims at democratizing access to technology to erase off socio-economic gaps. However, as practice (Mortimer & Wortham 2015) its implementation creates meanings (beyond the official expectations) that may (re)construct asymmetries in students’ identities. Adopting both an ethnographic-discursive and a socio-semiotic approach, this research uses scalar analysis to explore how a group of students’ identity becomes reconstructed in the implementation of this policy. The analysis of several co-implicated space/time scales demonstrates that by adopting different ideological positioning social actors construct these students’ identities in a way that they can, at the same time, be represented as ”“almost paradoxically”“ having a (linguistic) deficit and a (curricular) advantage.
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