"my child will be respected": Parental perspectives on computers and education in Rural India

Information Systems Frontiers

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 129-144

  Pal, Joyojeet ^a   Lakshmanan, Meera ^b   Toyama, Kentaro ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b Azim Premji Foundation   (India)

^c MICROSOFT RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Developing nations; Human factors; Rural areas; Technology social factors

Indexed keywords

COMPUTERS AND EDUCATION; DEVELOPING NATIONS; DEVELOPING REGIONS; HIGHER EDUCATION; HUMAN FACTORS; KARNATAKA; LEARNING CENTER; MODERN TECHNOLOGIES; PERCEIVED VALUE; PUBLIC SCHOOLS; QUALITATIVE STUDY; SOUTH INDIA; SYMBOLIC VALUE;

ASSOCIATION REACTIONS; EDUCATION; HUMAN ENGINEERING; RURAL AREAS; SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS; TECHNOLOGY;

GATEWAYS (COMPUTER NETWORKS);

EID: 67649085861     PISSN: 13873326     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10796-009-9172-1     Document Type: Conference Paper

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