RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Platform Studies in Education
JF Harvard Educational Review
JO herp
FD Harvard Educational Press
SP 209
OP 230
DO 10.17763/1943-5045-92.2.209
VO 92
IS 2
A1 NICHOLS, T. PHILIP
A1 GARCIA, ANTERO
YR 2022
UL http://harvardeducationalreview.org/content/92/2/209.abstract
AB In this introductory essay in the “Platform Studies in Education” symposium, T. Philip Nichols and Antero Garcia consider the expanding role of platform technologies in teaching, learning, and administration and the contributions of education research to the emerging multidisciplinary literature of platform studies. Their essay outlines theoretical lineages that identify platforms not as standalone tools but as multisided markets linking their users to competing social, technical, and political-economic imperatives. It also highlights connections to related education research that demonstrates the impact of these conflicting imperatives for equitable student learning, teacher education, and policy making. The authors conclude by reflecting on the critical interventions that greater attention to platform relations in education might offer and the forms of coalitional work, across disciplinary and geographic borders, needed to realize these potentials.