Educational technology: a thought about y our academic and scientific identity

• Main Author: Juan de PABLOS PONS
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Ediciones Universidad de Salamanca 2009-11-01
• Series: Enseñanza & Teaching
• Online Access: https://revistas.usal.es/index.php/0212-5374/article/view/3517

The idea of this paper arises from an interesting controversy that was set off by Alan Sokal, teacher of Physics at the University of New York. This author published a paper in a very prestigious scientific journal, written in a correct language but it was completely incomprehensible. The paper was a criticism to the overvalued french postmodernists. The usefulness of an empty reasoning in the scientific world, or even the pseudo sientific jargon, was used by this author to propose the necessity of a renewal of the scientific bases of the educational technology. By considering the educational technology as a «transverse subject», in this paper the updating of some support sciences and, occasionally, the integration of new scientific foundations is proposed. All of this has to lead us towards an updating of the role of the Technology of the Education. Several aspects like the necessity of renewing the foundations of the audio visual communication, the Thinking of Systems, the Constructive Psicology and the methodological findings from the Socio Cultural Theory in designing of educational situations are considered.