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libraries with ready access <strong>to</strong> real, virtual or educational networks that ex<strong>is</strong>t <strong>to</strong>day. A small noteon N 4 -ness <strong>is</strong> relevant <strong>here</strong>. Everything we did at that <strong>time</strong> was experimental. Each day I wouldhear myself saying, "Wow, I can't believe I just did that... I wonder what would happen if I triedth<strong>is</strong> again <strong>here</strong>... Oh, wow, that's worked <strong>to</strong>o." A simple illustration follows.Around that <strong>time</strong>, as a favour <strong>to</strong> a family member, I wrote a website for their business. I wanted<strong>to</strong> reflect the different colours of the product they were selling. I wondered how I could showth<strong>is</strong> in the text of the pages so I guessed at <strong>and</strong> added an html markup blue in<strong>to</strong> the code <strong>and</strong> <strong>to</strong> my as<strong>to</strong>n<strong>is</strong>hment (sense of awe, wonder, magic, echoes ofNaugh<strong>to</strong>n, 2000), when I refreshed the page the selected text was indeed blue. I set aboutapplying th<strong>is</strong> new-found knowledge everyw<strong>here</strong> in the text a colour was indicated, also applyingthe coders' key skill at the <strong>time</strong>, key strokes <strong>and</strong> .A further point <strong>to</strong> be made <strong>here</strong> <strong>is</strong> that the underpinning theoretical framework presented <strong>here</strong>was the outcome of my reflexive processes <strong>and</strong> ex<strong>is</strong>ted in an overtly-unarticulated form, that <strong>is</strong>in my imagination. Now it ex<strong>is</strong>ts in writing <strong>and</strong> in diagrammatic form <strong>and</strong> <strong>is</strong> thus becomingmore publicly accessible but it remains theoretical <strong>and</strong> abstract as opposed <strong>to</strong> concrete <strong>and</strong>real<strong>is</strong>able. Nor <strong>is</strong> it possible <strong>to</strong> ascribe <strong>to</strong> it at th<strong>is</strong> stage any more significance than the researchobjects warrant. What they warrant <strong>is</strong> a way of constructing an approach <strong>to</strong> exploring a preex<strong>is</strong>tingmoment of potential significance. Someone else might evaluate a critical incident fromtheir own learning journey against the framework asking if t<strong>here</strong> was any evidence of needdriving learning, prior knowledge facilitating engagement with a wealth of resources,participation in relevant communities of professional<strong>is</strong>m or the application of new insights insimilar or <strong>to</strong>tally different contexts. In that sense, they might begin <strong>to</strong> structure their reflectionsaround the Ns, as I have done.276Simon Hughes Ph.D. Thes<strong>is</strong> (Oc<strong>to</strong>ber 2012)

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