Academic Tribes and Their Territories:The Antagonism and Integration of the Three Cultures in Contemporary Learning Research
This article uses the anthropological metaphor of academic tribes and their territories'subject culture as a conceptual framework,analyzes the academic tribes and their territories in contemporary learning research,and identifies the current existence of three kinds of culture as well as explains its connotation.The author puts forward that the culture of science is cognition,the culture of learning technology is cognitive creation,the culture of learning engineering is creation.Based on this,the paper discusses the historical consequences and transcendence of the antithesis of three cultures in contemporary learning research,holds that the interaction between the three different cultures of science,technology and engineering not only challenges the unity of learning research,but also contains the potential of opening up new horizon for future learning research.Therefore,there's a need to construct the cultural continuum of science,technology and engineering,change the academic practice in the academic tribe,and form a new culture of learning research with more internal unity.