Developing a Project to Investigate the Introduction of ICT to Mapuche Students in Chile

The article describes the design of a study, using aspects of Actor Network Theory (ANT), to provide a level of understanding of how Mapuche students in Chile have shaped information and communication technology (ICT) to meet their needs, whether these are cultural, educational, work or other. The investigation aimed to analyse the impacts experienced by the Mapuche students as a result of the introduction of ICTs into schools where the predominant school population is composed of Mapuche students. The study described is still on-going and this article describes how it was set up and developed and how it is proceeding. A later article will describe more of the results.