Two decades of ICT Policy in Education. Changing discourses. Changing practices?

Resumen

After more than two decades of plans and programs directed at integrating information and communication technologies (ICT) into educational systems, a number of studies from different contexts relate that, although the presence of this media in schools is already a reality, the teaching staff has still not innovated its methodology and its educational practice since the adoption of ICT as a habitual means of teaching. This chapter presents some of the results that emerge from the RDT project "Policy and Practice regarding ICT in Education: Implication for Educational Innovation and Improvement" (Ministerio de Educación y Ciencia SEJ2007-67562. 2007-2010)†, whose final objective is to describe, analyze, interpret and evaluate the vision of technology and education that underlies the policies and practices related to the incorporation and the use of ICT in the scholastic system of Catalonia over the last twenty years. The work present some evidence that indicates how the discourses justifying the necessity of policies for incorporating ICT into the educational system change over the years, in relation to demands generated by a new technologically adept and changing society, while practices in schools remain almost unaltered.