This thesis examines briefly the history of Information Communication Technology (ICT) for Educational. Development (ICT4ED) projects and ICT projects in the state of Turkey since 1984, focusing on their continuing failures. The thesis locates the causes of these failures in principles of what will be referred to Techno-Politics which is the 'internal' interactions of 'Technological' innovations with 'Policy' mechanisms and 'Management' processes under a particular set of Circumstances associated with sets of Values drawn from Proprietary Close Source Software (PCSS). The study focuses on the current ICT4ED project, Fatih, which is seen as a typical educational 'reform' in a centralist education state, promising to 'fully integrate technology' into education. The study argues that the project's political execution, technical development and philosophical conception, undermine its objectives and lead to its likely failure. The thesis argues that Free Open Source Software (FOSS) is deliberately ignored in techno-politics due to; obvious, institutional inertia, path dependence and ungovernable ICT changes and arguably, corruption in new public management, 'which have made FOSS usage, formerly both feasible and flexible, 'totally' impracticable. The .thesis contrasts the corporatocracical techno-politics of PCSS with those of FOSS, highlighting their consequences as Locked-in and Hegemonic Corporatocracy with PCSS versus Free and Flexible Freedom with FOSS. The study concludes that the cotporatocracical techno-politics of PCSS can be seen as forms of 'Progress' that not only ยท are prone to inevitably failure, but that also inhibit other, more positive, forms of 'progress'. Nevertheless, there is more beyond 'technopolitics'.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:bl.uk/oai:ethos.bl.uk:654549 |
| Date | January 2014 |
| Creators | Tolu, Huseyin |
| Publisher | University of Bristol |
| Source Sets | Ethos UK |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Electronic Thesis or Dissertation |
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