Devices and desires: subject subcultures, pedagogical identity and the challenge of information and communications technology

Devices and Desires..an international peer reviewed article, to which the second author contributed 50%. Drawing on sociocultural theory, the research reported in this article focuses on the promise and challenge presented by ICT to established subcultures as seen through the eyes of individual subject teachers. Its originality resides in both the methodology researchers worked together with teachers to develop, perform and evaluate innovative teaching approaches and also in the differences thrown up by the various subject subcultures. The paper drew on data from the Interactive Education Project, part of the ESRCs TLRP programme and the largest ICT based research project in the UK to date.