ABSTRACT
This chapter aims to challenge the notion of context further, by turning our attention to the status and role of space and time. These are – in common-sense terms and in the mainstream of educational literature – regarded as 'background' to practice, the settings or 'boxes' in which practice takes place. The importance of space in Higher Education has been increasingly recognised recently, in contrast with the school sector where there has been a more long-standing recognition of the importance of the issue. As with space, there is a tendency in educational research and thought to assume time is also a neutral backcloth to activity, an empty container in which educational activity takes place. However, in philosophy and social theory, the nature and complexity of time has been explored and these assumptions have been questioned. The chapter argues that technologies do not provide an 'escape' from either space or time, but instead they are entangled with both in complex ways.
