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TY - JOUR
T1 - Consensus, difference and ‘multiple communities’ in networked learning
AU - Hodgson, Vivien
AU - Reynolds, Michael
PY - 2005
Y1 - 2005
N2 - The article reviews the popularity in networked learning designs for values of collaboration, and in particular, of community. Examples of this are drawn from the networked learning literature, highlighting corresponding arguments for networked learning providing the basis for a more democratic ethos within higher educational programmes. The authors critique the notion of ‘community’, especially its association with consensus and pressures to conform. They argue for an interpretation of community which would be more likely to take account of differences, without suppressing or ‘managing’ them, and cite examples of network learning structures which seem to be based on principles more sympathetic to this aim.
AB - The article reviews the popularity in networked learning designs for values of collaboration, and in particular, of community. Examples of this are drawn from the networked learning literature, highlighting corresponding arguments for networked learning providing the basis for a more democratic ethos within higher educational programmes. The authors critique the notion of ‘community’, especially its association with consensus and pressures to conform. They argue for an interpretation of community which would be more likely to take account of differences, without suppressing or ‘managing’ them, and cite examples of network learning structures which seem to be based on principles more sympathetic to this aim.
U2 - 10.1080/0307507052000307768
DO - 10.1080/0307507052000307768
M3 - Journal article
VL - 30
SP - 11
EP - 24
JO - Studies in Higher Education
JF - Studies in Higher Education
SN - 0307-5079
IS - 1
ER -