A Study on ICT and Development by an Austrian in Uganda with a View to Intercultural Awareness
Omschrijving
In the last few years ICT projects in developing countries1 have gained tremendously
in importance. Nevertheless there has been a lack of case studies dealing with teaching
computing in LDCs. So far there has been no case study performed by a scientist with
practical experiences in computer related interventions.
This case study describes a computer project, which was undertaken at a primary
school in South-West Uganda. During the intervention the author
encountered - in parallel to technical problems - several misunderstandings related to
culture. It became apparent that the participating people from that region approach
new technology differently than we do (in the mind of members of different cultural
backgrounds, namely teachers from Austria) and therefore integrate knowledge in a
different way. This led to a cultural perspective, and a qualitative research was conducted.
The collected empirical data enabled a systematic hermeneutical analysis with
regard to Witzel's programme of problem centred analysis.
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