Technological determinism and the school

Abstract

Is the development of technology autonomous and inevitable and does it determine the development of society? Different ways of answering ‘yes’ to this question are usually labelled ‘technological determinism’. In this paper, I relate some versions of technodeterministic opinions to the discourse of information and communication technology (ICT), schools and education. One purpose of this paper is to broaden the educational perspective to include aspects from history, philosophy and the sociology of technology.