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‘Old Wine in Even Newer Bottles’: the uneasy relationship between web 2.0 technologies and E uropean school collaboration
Author(s) -
Gouseti Anastasia
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
european journal of education
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.577
H-Index - 45
eISSN - 1465-3435
pISSN - 0141-8211
DOI - 10.1111/ejed.12051
Subject(s) - enthusiasm , public relations , sociology , pedagogy , political science , psychology , social psychology
The idea of using digital technologies and in particular web 2.0 tools to enhance school collaboration has recently been received with great enthusiasm and a range of new collaborative initiatives has emerged. Through a comparative qualitative case study of four schools in the UK and G reece, this article analyses how online tools are supporting and facilitating school collaboration within the ‘e T winning’ programme — an EU initiative that seeks to promote web‐based learning and collaboration between schools across E urope. In particular, it examines teachers' and students' compromised experiences of the tech‐based e T winning projects and highlights the factors that seemed to be undermining collaboration. It analyses whether the implementation of digital technologies for school collaboration has the potential to transform classroom practices or whether existing habits and ‘ways of doing’ are brought into new contexts — leading to another case of ‘the old wine in new bottles’ syndrome often attributed to the use of digital technology in education.