Alternative Lifeworlds on the Internet: Habermas and Democratic Distance Education

Autor/inn/en	Tilak, Shantanu; Glassman, Michael
Titel	Alternative Lifeworlds on the Internet: Habermas and Democratic Distance Education
Quelle	In: Distance Education, 41 (2020) 3, S.326-344 (19 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Tilak, Shantanu) ORCID (Glassman, Michael)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0158-7919
DOI	10.1080/01587919.2020.1763782
Schlagwörter	Democracy; Internet; Distance Education; Thinking Skills; Critical Thinking; Teacher Student Relationship; Equal Education; Power Structure; Constructivism (Learning); Cybernetics; Open Source Technology + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Demokratie; Distance study; Distance learning; Fernunterricht; Denkfähigkeit; Kritisches Denken; Teacher student relationships; Lehrer-Schüler-Beziehung; Kybernetik
Abstract	Current distance education practices can be susceptible to the types of content-heavy, top-down instruction often seen in physical classrooms. These practices are similar to the activities of corporations, which use recommendation systems and game theory to mold the public sphere and fragment it. We propose that free knowledge creation through open, multichannel communication needs to be used in distance education to permit both individual and collective agency for students to process knowledge and develop higher order reflectivity. Such frameworks would help students of distance education and instructors to use critical thinking to discuss concepts as equal stakeholders and develop varied ideological outcomes that could contribute to creating social change. This conceptual paper places current distance education practices within Habermasian theory, discusses ways in which the Internet and its educative potential has come to be viewed thus far, and suggests platforms that could open distance learning to new possibilities. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01