Share Paper: Exploring the Influence of Policy on ICT integration into teacher education in Malawi: Cases of two teacher education institutions

  1. Foster Gondwe, Hiroshima University, Japan

Abstract: Globally, as ICTs become a part of the education systems, there is also pressure to empower teachers with ICT skills to enable their capacity to integrate ICT in their work. In Malawi, an increasing government interest to integrate ICT into initial teacher education and continuous professional development is evident. Yet, although policy on education is one of the factors that influence the use of ICT and other technologies in teacher education (UNICEF, 2004), policy perspectives on ICT integration in teacher education remain understudied in Malawi. This qualitative case study adopts a social cultural approach to policy in order to examine ...