Abstract

COUTINHO, Clara Pereira. Cognitive sciences and research in Educational Technology. Conceptual and methodological frameworks, expectations and findings. Rev. Port. de Educação [online]. 2008, vol.21, n.1, pp.101-127. ISSN 0871-9187.

In this paper we synthetize an important corpus of research developed around the potencial of information and communication technologies in a period that lasted for more than two decades and in which Cognitive Sciences were the framework for research in Educational Tecnology. We will begin by presenting Cognitive Sciences conceptual principles showing how those new theories influenced research on media. Afterwards, research findings in the field of Educational Technology will be presented and discussed. The analysis will focus on research topics, conceptual frameworks, methodological stances, also intending to discuss whether the enormous expectations that were set up for learning with media were (or not) reached. Though recognising the limitations of the current synthesis, because, on one hand, it is not easy to define what Cognitive Sciences are, and, on the other hand, it is even more difficult to precise the moment that a new theorical framework - constructivism - began to influence the praxis of research in Educational Tecnology, we believe we helped to charaterize an important period of the history of Educational Tecnology as an area of research in educational sciences.

Keywords : Educational Technology; Research; Cognitive Sciences.

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