This document discusses a study examining how lecturers make sense of teaching healthcare professions using technology. It first discusses phenomenology as a theoretical approach to understand taken-for-granted knowledge as socially constructed. It then analyzes language used in documents promoting e-learning, noting repetitive terms like "enhance," "technology," and "learning." The study aims to understand power dynamics and how meaning is constructed in this context. By critically observing discourses, lecturers may develop new perspectives rather than being "swept along" by norms.

1. Is e-learning effective in
healthcare education?
From phenomenology to discourse analysis.
Tim Goodchild
2nd Year PD Healthcare Education

4. Phenomenology
How do lecturers make sense of
this experience of teaching the
caring professions in a hi-tech
environment?

5. 1) A critical approach to taken for granted knowledge.
2) Our views of, and knowledge about, the world are the
products of historically situated interchanges.
3) Knowledge is created through social interaction in
which we construct common truths and compete about
what is true and false.
4) The social construction of knowledge and truth has
social consequences.
(Gergen 1985: Jorgensen and Phillips, 2002)
Encountered Discourse Analysis

8. • “technologies to provide more flexible opportunities…”
• “harness the latest technology”
• “modern approach to learning”
• “innovative technologies to enhance”
• “enhancements on the student learning experience”
• “enhance your teaching….”
• “its really easy…”
• “enhance current assessment…”
• “make more time…”
• “Harnessing the power…”
• “technology for learning”
• “enhance your teaching through technology”
• “infuse technology”
• “back to basics” (with technology)
• “enhance your teaching and learning”
• “Follow us…” “power search”

10. The lecturer able to emerge with new ways
of seeing. No longer swept along in the
norm, the fast currents, but rather able to
observe, describe, evaluate and critique.

12. • Focus of the study:
• the wielding of power.
• the sustenance and development of practices.
• how meaning and order are constructed.
• purpose is both explanatory and critical.
• Understand the phenomena via logics of
explanation:
• Social logics characterize a practice.
• Political logics concerned with power and the
emergence and transformation of social practices.
• Fantasmatic logics focus on the fantasy, “the
construction of a narrative of a fullness-to-come”.

13. Is e-learning effective in
healthcare education?
Engage with “discourses” via interview and “documents”.
Tim Goodchild
t.goodchild@ucs.ac.uk