TY - JOUR
T1 - ‘I click, therefore I am (not)’
T2 - is cognition ‘distributed’ or is it ‘contained’ in borderless e-learning programmes?
AU - Henning, Elizabeth
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2003, John Wiley and Sons Inc. All rights reserved.
PY - 2003/12
Y1 - 2003/12
N2 - This paper will problematise the notion of distributed cognition in courses across cultural learning borders, by presenting a narrative case study of six learners’ journeys to online learning. I will argue that although distributed cognition is a widely acceptable theory in e-learning, it is based on an assumption that the ‘distribution’ of cognition is reciprocal between toolmakers, texts and users, when perhaps, in certain instances, it excludes the life (and learning) world of local learners in the global, borderless environment. In these instances the cognition that is assumed to be distributed is, in contrast, ‘contained’ in the narrative-in-action that is familiar to the learners, whose situated knowledge is embedded and embodied in a non-global discourse (Henning et al., 2000).
AB - This paper will problematise the notion of distributed cognition in courses across cultural learning borders, by presenting a narrative case study of six learners’ journeys to online learning. I will argue that although distributed cognition is a widely acceptable theory in e-learning, it is based on an assumption that the ‘distribution’ of cognition is reciprocal between toolmakers, texts and users, when perhaps, in certain instances, it excludes the life (and learning) world of local learners in the global, borderless environment. In these instances the cognition that is assumed to be distributed is, in contrast, ‘contained’ in the narrative-in-action that is familiar to the learners, whose situated knowledge is embedded and embodied in a non-global discourse (Henning et al., 2000).
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U2 - 10.1046/j.1360-3736.2003.00188.x
DO - 10.1046/j.1360-3736.2003.00188.x
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:47649126962
SN - 1360-3736
VL - 7
SP - 303
EP - 317
JO - International Journal of Training and Development
JF - International Journal of Training and Development
IS - 4
ER -