Education International
Governance of Digital Technologies (Qs 32-33) This section’s two questions are concerned with education authorities’ consultation of unions and whether unions are involved in assessing the digital technologies already in place. In other words, this section seeks to unravel the degree of involvement of education unions in shaping digital technologies.
Q32: Are unions consulted by education authorities on what digital technologies are wanted by teachers/ESP? On a global and aggregate level, the respondents overwhelmingly (57%) responded that they were not consulted about teachers’ and ESPs’ technological wants. 29%
13%
57%
100 %
90%
No, but non-representative teachers are consulted
80%
70%
60%
50%
No
40%
30%
20%
10%
0%
Yes
1%
N/A
Figure 32. Global aggregate for whether unions are consulted by education authorities on what digital technologies are wanted by teachers/ESP
Unpacking this to the regional level, we can see that the consultation of nonrepresentative teachers is larger in North America and the Caribbean (43%) than the consultation of unions (29%). Africa
25%
69%
6%
Asia-Pacific
40%
43%
17%
Europe
40%
43%
7% 4%
Latin America
92%
North America & the Caribbean
29%
29%
43%
100 %
90%
No, but non-representative teachers are consulted
80%
70%
60%
50%
No
40%
30%
20%
10%
0%
Yes
8%
N/A
Figure 33. Regional breakdown for whether unions are consulted by education authorities on what digital technologies are wanted by teachers/ESP 40
