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Educational Technology--Mapping the Terrain with Bernstein as Cartographer
- Source :
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Journal of Computer Assisted Learning . Dec 2010 26(6):523-534. - Publication Year :
- 2010
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Abstract
- This paper uses the literature of educational technology as the site of analysis in order to map the field of educational technology. Having considered Kuhn and Bourdieu's theories, the paper frames the analysis of the field in Bernsteinian terms as a horizontal knowledge structure in a vertical knowledge discourse. Using the concepts of interacting discursive planes, the paper maps the field in terms of its general approach planes and its problem planes. Finally, the paper shows that researchers in the field themselves acknowledge its weak grammar, and calls for commensurability of approaches to be acknowledged in order for robust knowledge to be developed and the legitimacy of the field to be enhanced. (Contains 4 notes.)
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 0266-4909
- Volume :
- 26
- Issue :
- 6
- Database :
- ERIC
- Journal :
- Journal of Computer Assisted Learning
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- EJ978607
- Document Type :
- Journal Articles<br />Reports - Descriptive
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2729.2010.00359.x