Premises, Promises: Connection, community, and communion in online education.
This paper is an essay on the discursive politics of education. Data from a small study, combined with a review of the related literature, suggest that the overarching concept “community” lacks coherence when used in online education. At least three contrasting forms of connection can be discerned:...
| Publicado en: | Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education Vol. 27; no. 4; pp. 533 - 550 |
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
Dec2006
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| Sumario: | This paper is an essay on the discursive politics of education. Data from a small study, combined with a review of the related literature, suggest that the overarching concept “community” lacks coherence when used in online education. At least three contrasting forms of connection can be discerned: communion among participants, exchange between participants, and attachment to an ideal. In turn, we believe that this incoherence is not a trivial semantic problem, but rather a central concern in current efforts to remodel, reform and globalize distance education. |
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