It is a good job the actual research / PhD is progressing a bit better than that.
With that in mind I am reviewing progress and the plan is to highlight some of the more interesting readings I have come across in the process of the last couple of years.
One area I have loved has been the examination of the curriculum, not really the ICT national curriculum, that is what it is even if it is likely to change and depending on who you talk to that change is unlikely to be too far away, in England at least! But more the development of the curriculum, and this led me to Paul Hirst, his concept of different domains or intellectual spheres of knowledge and the acquisition of knowledge really appealed to me. Even though this was first described in the 1970's, it has a resonance today, with the possible addition of another 'Domain' of knowledge that is linked to all aspects technological. Hirst parcelled up different subject areas and linked them to different domains which are tidy and logical and appeals to my sense of order. The question of how different people acquire knowledge in different ways is fascinating and makes me question if there are different domains are there also different aptitudes, what makes one person more akin to mathematics, or technology or more akin to Art, is it about the way in which those subject areas are taught or does aptitude or talent come in to this, so the next step is to have a look at Gardner and his multiple intelligences.
And as for Piaget and Vygotsky, not to mention the earlier philosophers, however, that is for another time
