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Bridging the gap between policy and practice: Unpacking the commercial rhetoric of Google for Education
Linnaeus University, Faculty of Arts and Humanities, Department of Cultural Sciences.ORCID iD: 0000-0001-9938-4785
2022 (English)In: European Educational Research Journal, E-ISSN 1474-9041, Vol. 21, no 4, p. 680-701Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

This paper unpacks the commercial rhetoric of Google for Education. Through the analysis of information published on the official Google for Education website, the paper seeks to make visible how this service promotes and reproduces certain ways of talking, thinking about and doing education. The aim is to contribute to a critical discussion of the potential implications of allowing major commercial players to take the lead in the development of digital infrastructure in education. Guiding the analysis is the notion of 'problem' understood as central for Google for Education's success story. The case of Sweden, in which Google for Education has become widely used, forms the vantage point for this discussion. The study makes visible how Google for Education, in the commercial rhetoric, is constructed as the solution to problem representations by being positioned as a much-needed bridge, in the shape of digital information infrastructure, between digital policy and educational practice. However, Google for Education is far from simply a practical solution to a set of expensive and urgent problems. To uncritically embrace Google as the information infrastructure of education is to hand over power to one actor, which closes doors to alternative paths of doing and knowing in education.

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Sage Publications, 2022. Vol. 21, no 4, p. 680-701
Keywords [en]
Digital education, digital technology in education, cloud-based services in education, commercial services in education, Google for Education
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Information Studies
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Humanities, Library and Information Science
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URN: urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-101746DOI: 10.1177/1474904121997213ISI: 000626677800001Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85102392317Local ID: 2021OAI: oai:DiVA.org:lnu-101746DiVA, id: diva2:1540098
Available from: 2021-03-26 Created: 2021-03-26 Last updated: 2023-03-28Bibliographically approved

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