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Getting IT together: the integration of IT into a humanities subject in a pre-service teaching degree

Fisher, Alison ( 2001)

This research examines the extent to which an academic uses the support of an Educational IT Consultant to assist with the integration of some simple information technologies (IT) into an existing humanities (English Method) subject of a pre-service teacher education degree in an Australian university. The thesis briefly examines the debate for integration of IT across the curriculum against stand-alone IT courses and establishes, from the literature, that integration generally seems to be the preferred method for ensuring that newly graduated teachers use IT in the classroom. The thesis then attempts to ascertain the environmental elements that would be conducive to the integration of IT across the pre-service curriculum, and examines whether this environment was present in the Faculty where the case study took place. The research took the form of a qualitative ethnographic case study using multiple methods of data collection. Detailed descriptions of the characteristics and role of the Educational IT Consultant, along with a description of the subject and academic are also included should anyone wish to repeat the study. The findings suggest that adoption of IT is hastened into humanities areas of the pre-service curriculum with the assistance of an Educational IT Consultant approach to staff development.