Chapter 7 - Community

The book has taken us through the ways in which participants saw the contribution of computers to education and raised the ‘disconnect’ between their perspective and that of policy makers. In arriving at a vision of using computers, and articulating that vision, the notion of belonging to a research community has loomed very large. In this final chapter we look in more detail at what is meant by an educational research community; what has it achieved and where should it go from here?