A DECADE LATER — TWELVE TEACHERS' RETROSPECTIVE
VIEWS ON A NATIONAL PROGRAMME FOR TEACHERS'
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT AND ICT

J Ola Lindberg
Mid Sweden University
Sweden

Today, an increased impact of information and communication technologies (ICT) in the society at large has lead teachers to engage in professional development activities related to the use of ICT. Even though this development has been prominent for more than two decades (Jedeskog, 2005), its long-term effects seem complex to determine (Ottenbreit-Leftwich, 2010). This paper is based on interviews with twelve teachers that participated in a national program for promoting school development and use of ICT in 2000–2001. The program was aligned with the pedagogical approaches set out in the national curriculum, such as a shift from teaching to learning and giving pupils more responsibility, introducing interdisciplinary approaches to teaching in teams, and a problem- based pupils-oriented pedagogy. The analysis of the interviews show that teachers still feel a high degree of appreciation for the program, and that they share a relative agreement of the importance of the program for their teaching with ICT for the last decade.

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