Re-engineering Education research to investigate learning in community informatics: using phenomenography and variation theory to understand and account for learning in GraniteNet
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Arden, Catherine Helen. 2014. "Re-engineering Education research to investigate learning in community informatics: using phenomenography and variation theory to understand and account for learning in GraniteNet." Stillman, Larry, Denison, Tom and Anwar, Misita (ed.) 11th Prato CIRN Conference: Challenges and Solutions. Prato, Italy 13 - 15 Oct 2014 Melbourne, Australia.
| Paper/Presentation Title | Re-engineering Education research to investigate learning in community informatics: using phenomenography and variation theory to understand and account for learning in GraniteNet |
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| Presentation Type | Paper |
| Authors | |
| Author | Arden, Catherine Helen |
| Editors | Stillman, Larry, Denison, Tom and Anwar, Misita |
| Journal or Proceedings Title | Proceedings fo the 11th Prato CIRN Conference: Challenges and Solutions |
| ERA Conference ID | 60200 |
| Number of Pages | 24 |
| Year | 2014 |
| Place of Publication | Melbourne, Australia |
| ISBN | 9780987465238 |
| Web Address (URL) of Paper | http://ccnr.infotech.monash.edu/assets/docs/prato2014papers/arden.pdf |
| Conference/Event | 11th Prato CIRN Conference: Challenges and Solutions |
| Community Informatics Research Network Conference (CIRN) | |
| Event Details | 11th Prato CIRN Conference: Challenges and Solutions Event Date 13 to end of 15 Oct 2014 Event Location Prato, Italy |
| Event Details | Community Informatics Research Network Conference (CIRN) CIRN |
| Abstract | GraniteNet is a Community Informatics project which began in 2006 as a research and development collaboration between university researchers and members of the rural community of Stanthorpe, a town of approximately 10,500 residents located on the Granite Belt in the Southern Downs region of Queensland, Australia. The vision for this Participatory Action Research project was a sustainable community designed, owned and managed web portal that would promote digital inclusion and support Stanthorpe's development as a 'learning community'. Eight years on, GraniteNet has continued to evolve as a community-based social enterprise operated exclusively by volunteers, providing a range of digital inclusion facilities and services to residents of Stanthorpe and the Granite Belt, including a community technology hub located in the CBD and a community web portal (www.granitenet.com.au). Using phenomenography as the primary research approach within an instrumental, single site case study, this research investigates the qualitatively different ways in which the members of GraniteNet's diverse communities of interest and practice understand and experience learning in the context of their involvement in GraniteNet's digital inclusion activities and use of the community web portal. Although learning across various content domains is explored, particular emphasis is given to interrogation of conceptions and experiences of learning related to digital technologies and digital literacies in these environments. Presenting her account of the study's methodology and findings, the author grapples with the challenges of using phenomenography - a research approach originally developed to investigate learning in formal education - to investigate adults' informal and non-formal learning experiences in a community setting. The benefits and limitations of phenomenography and variation theory as theoretical, conceptual and methodological frameworks for researching learning in Community Informatics are explored, and implications for locating community-based research in wider theoretical and practice frameworks and accounting for community benefit from a lifelong learning perspective discussed. |
| Keywords | informal learning; lifelong learning; Community Informatics; phenomenography; variation theory |
| ANZSRC Field of Research 2020 | 461008. Organisation of information and knowledge resources |
| 390499. Specialist studies in education not elsewhere classified | |
| Public Notes | No evidence of copyright restrictions preventing deposit. |
| Byline Affiliations | School of Linguistics, Adult and Specialist Education |
| Institution of Origin | University of Southern Queensland |
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