Educational technology - mapping the terrain with Bernstein as cartographer

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2010

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Journal of Computer Assisted Learning

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Blackwell Publishing Ltd

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University of Cape Town

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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.
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This is the accepted version of the following article: Czerniewicz, L. 2010. Educational technology - mapping the terrain with Bernstein as cartographer. Journal of Computer Assisted Learning. 26(6): 523-534., which has been published in final form at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2729.2010.00359.x.

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