Collaborative Learning with Technology: Some Effects on Educational Disaffection.

Stewart Martin Durham University, Durham, UK Introduction How welcome parents and carers feel at their children’s school seems likely to have a significant influence on the degree to which they and their children engage with its educational programme. The ethos of the school and the nature of the classroom environment as determined by teachers are therefore significant and continuing features of its pedagogy and its taught and ‘hidden’ curriculum (Landon and Carr, 1999; McDowell and Kay, 1998).