教学媒体研究的实证传统与历史反思

Positivism Tradition in Instructional Media Research and Rethinking the History

文章对教育技术学研究的重要一支——教学媒体研究的实证主义研究传统进行了历史回顾。研究表明,早期教学媒体研究的实证主义深受当时学术背景的影响,在其问题与方法的嬗变过程中又经历了一个从粗放到不断精致的过程。论文最后对教学媒体研究中,实证主义长期“一统天下”的现象进行了历史反思,并做出了新的解读。

This article reviewed the history of the positivism tradition in instructional media research which is one of the important branch of instructional technology. It indicates that the earlier positivism tradition in instructional media research was influenced deeply by the science background at that time. Followed problems and methods changes, the positivism tradition undergo a process from unshaped to elaborate. Additionally, on the base of rethinking about the phenomena of positivism ruling the field through out the time, the author gives some new interpretation.