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illustrates the contribution that each IM made to it. Metaphorically, this is an horizontal analysisof the IMs, which seeks to show patterns and replications from one to the other as a way ofarticulating the component strands of that framework. For ease of reading the framework isoffered here, in tabular form, for the first time:Table 1: The Emerging FrameworkFactor Description Code1. A self notes that it has a self-referential reason for study, N for Need2. The self utilises its prior knowledge, skills or understanding to accessappropriate digital learning resources3. The self actively participates technologically in the social co-constructionof meaning through focused and relevant communities of practical orprofessional enquiry (after Wenger, 1998; 2001 – see Smith, 2003)4. The self critically evaluates these episodes and is able to apply newsynthetic understandings in relevant practical or professional contexts.N for kNowledgeN for NetworkN for NewHow I arrived at this framework is the sub-text to all the work that follows. It is published hereas a way of presenting the hypothesis, in the belief that the rest of the thesis is the story of howthe framework evolved and how it is also the framework around which I structured thephilosophical reflections.Stage 4 of the research process is a synthetic analysis which draws together all the prior learningas a way of evincing the living theory that is generated by the undertaking of this rigorousenquiry.The Layout of Chapter 3The chapter is thus in three parts: first, a structured analysis of how I arrived at the proposedmethodology; second, a discussion of how this methodology is in keeping with the emerging136Simon Hughes Ph.D. Thesis (October 2012)