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The place of the classroom and the space of the screen : relational pedagogy and internet technology / Norm Friesen.

By: Friesen, Norm [author].
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookSeries: New literacies and digital epistemologies: Publisher: New York : Peter Lang, [2011]Copyright date: ©2011Description: xviii, 183 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781433109584 (paperback); 9781433109591 (hardback).Subject(s): Distance education -- Computer-assisted instruction | Education -- Effect of technological innovations on | Educational technologyDDC classification: 371.358 Summary: "This book examines how common e-learning technologies open up compelling, if limited, experiential spaces for users, similar to the imaginary worlds opened up by works of fiction. However, these experiential worlds are markedly different from the "real" world of physical objects and embodied relations. This book shows these differences to be of central importance for teaching and learning" - back cover.

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

This book examines how common e-learning technologies open up compelling, if limited, experiential spaces for users, similar to the imaginary worlds opened up by works of fiction. However, these experiential worlds are markedly different from the «real» world of physical objects and embodied relations. This book shows these differences to be of central importance for teaching and learning.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [167]-180) and index.

"This book examines how common e-learning technologies open up compelling, if limited, experiential spaces for users, similar to the imaginary worlds opened up by works of fiction. However, these experiential worlds are markedly different from the "real" world of physical objects and embodied relations. This book shows these differences to be of central importance for teaching and learning" - back cover.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

  • Preface (p. ix)
  • Acknowledgments (p. xvii)
  • Selection 1 Setting Up the Question, Questioning the Set-Up (p. 1)
  • Chapter 1 Introduction (p. 3)
  • Chapter 2 Experiential Evidence: I, We, and You (p. 19)
  • Chapter 3 The Peril and Promise of Language (p. 47)
  • Selection 2 Acting in Worlds: Online and Offline (p. 73)
  • Chapter 4 Screen and Classroom: Time, Space, and Body (p. 75)
  • Chapter 5 Laboratory and Simulation: Intercorporeality (p. 87)
  • Selection 3 Encountering the Other Online and Offline (p. 109)
  • Chapter 6 The Body and Relational Pedagogy (p. 111)
  • Chapter 7 Pedagogy and the Relational Dimension (p. 127)
  • Selection 4 Space of the Screen and Place of the Classroom (p. 149)
  • Chapter 8 To Each Pedagogy Its Place (p. 151)
  • References (p. 167)
  • Index (p. 181)

Author notes provided by Syndetics

Norm Friesen is Canada Research Chair in E-Learning Practices at Thompson Rivers University in Kamloops, British Columbia, Canada. He is presently undertaking funded research in media theory and multiple literacies.