Resumen de Ethnography on IT-based learning contexts: A matter of blended methodology and blended learning
This paper takes the point of departure in ethnographic studies carried out in IT-based learning contexts. The comprehensive fieldwork and case studies on the upper secondary ‘IT-schools’ cover three organizational levels: The school management level, The colleague/teacher level, and The teaching and learning practice level. In terms of methodology, the challenge has been to confront classic ethnography with a late-modern school world loaded with new IT tools and references to teacher professionalization and school culture as well as references to youth culture. In terms of an empirical analysis of the IT-based learning practice, the challenge is to cope with formal learning as well as with non-formal learning situations. Against this background, school case studies done during the period of reform (2000 – 2010) show both how the IT based strategies is challenging conventional strategies and how new concepts of blended learning is constructed to meet challenges from the practical learning processes (Borgnakke 2007, 2012a).
