Widening the "Digital Divide" or Breaking "Class Barriers": Research of Information Technology Impact on Education Equity

• In Event: Advocating, Educating, and Policy Making: Family and Community Engagement to Advance Equity

Abstract

Abstract: This family education narrative research on Bourdieu’s "cultural capital" theory is based on family education in the context of online teaching under the epidemic. The researcher observes and interviews three families (3 months). At the same time, combined with international literature research, we will explore whether information technology can break the educational inequity brought about by cultural capital. The study found that: First, the family cultural capital has undergone changes under the influence of information technology; secondly, information technology has also brought new digital divides while solving some educational inequities, further widening educational inequities; finally, in The promotion of fairness in the information technology era requires the coordination of government, society and schools.

Author

• Qiuxia Zhang, East China Normal University