Teachers'views and opinions on the use of digital media in rural schools with special difficulties

Despite a national and international commitment to inclusion, digitisation and creativity, few studies have combined an analysis of all three, and even less so in the context of rural schools. The aim of this paper is to identify the views of teachers in rural schools which have particular difficulty regarding the use of digital media from a creative and inclusive perspective. This paper reports on a study in the Autonomous Community of Aragon, as part of a state R&D+i research project on 'Discourses and creative and inclusive teaching practices with digital media in schools with special difficulties' (PID2020-112880RB-I00). A mixed quantitative-qualitative design is used, based on an ad hoc questionnaire completed by 52 teachers from a sample of 29 rural schools of special difficulty (N N = 69), 30 semi-structured interviews and five focus groups with 18 teachers. The study shows that only a part of the teachers in the rural schools analysed consider a creative and inclusive perspective on the use of digital media in the classroom. The article concludes by highlighting the tensions around these media in rural schools with special difficulties. It also shows the opportunities offered by digital media in these schools from a creative and inclusive perspective.