Aντιλήψεις εκπαιδευτικών της δευτεροβάθμιας για την αξιοποίηση των τεχνολογιών της πληροφορίας και της επικοινωνίας στην εκπαίδευση: Έμφυλες διαστάσεις

Abstract

The present study explored teachers’ role in the gender digital divide by examining their beliefs regarding the educational integration of information and com - munication technologies (ICTs) and their views about ICTs and gender. Partici - pants were 164 secondary education teachers who responded to a survey. Questions focused on teachers’personal and educational ICT use, their computer self-efficacy, their beliefs about the educational uses that of ICTs and their views on issues of gender and information technology. The results showed thatteachers tended to think that boys were more capable in computers and that the study of computing was more appropriate for boys. Female teachers reported lower personal and educational ICT use as well aslower self-efficacy regarding the use of ICTs in the classroom compared to male teachers. However, in female teachers, teaching experience correlated negatively with both self-efficacy and gender stereotypes.This indicates that young female teachers may present a positive role model to their female students as they appear to be more confident to use ICTs in the classroom and to hold non-stereotyped views about gender and technology.