Equity Perspective for Policy Analysis Analyzing Nigeria’s National Policy on ICT (Information and Communications Technology) in Education 2019

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Abstract

The advancement of ICTs in Education has raised concern for digital inequalities in view of building sustainable digital societies. The government of Nigeria having recognized the multi-sectoral utility of ICTs and to make a dedicated effort to equitably implement ICTs in education, introduced a National Policy on ICT in Education in 2010 which was later revised in 2019. The paper undertakes an analytical review of the policy utilizing equity as a theoretical perspective to analyze its language and its linguistic accommodation of equity as a principle to guide the policy document. The paper primarily analyzes policy provisions for the vision, community, resources; monitoring and evaluation to identify the policy basis, policy membership and equity-led coherence among various policy sections

Authors

• Muhammad Zulqurnain Ul Haq Qazi, The Ohio State University

• Nadeem Hussain, University of Massachusetts - Boston

• Kirti Singh, Youth Center for Research