This book champions phenomenologyâs place in networked learning theory, research, and practice. The book illuminates and showcases something of the powerful richness, depth, and novel insights offered by phenomenological perspectives on human experience to invoke a fundamental rethinking of experience in networked learning. It also signals the broader learning technology community to acknowledge and engage with these perspectives.
The editors and authors have collaborated to bring a renewed focus upon the human facet of networked learning. As our world becomes more digitally enmeshed, infiltrated, and contested, the need to investigate and convey, at maximum fidelity, the lived experience of learners, teachers, and other stakeholders in education becomes paramount. Through phenomenological inquiry, we disclose the complex dance between the human and the technical, spotlighting how individuals engage, navigate, and find meaning within virtual yet embodied landscapes. This approach suitably honours the complexity, profundity, and ethicality of human existence in our evolving digital ecologies.
The first section, âPhenomenological Perspectives in Researching Networked Learningâ lucidly explains phenomenology and some of its potential affordances. The second section, âPractising Phenomenological Research in Networked Learningâ, explicates the tangible practice of phenomenological research into specific phenomena: chapters sample of a select range of studies that also indicate the kind of insights such research can bring to networked learning. The concluding section presents two chapters that denote novel and arresting, âCritical Phenomenological Perspectives on Networked Learningâ. Together, these final chapters demonstrate the type of radical challenge that phenomenology can bring to the field, refreshing even networked learningâs most basic conceptions and practices.
With this book, we open a space for anyone who wishes to join us in the wonderful, inspiring, and challenging application of phenomenology within the field of networked learning.
Phenomenology in Action for Researching Networked Learning - Michael Johnson, Felicity Healey-Benson, Catherine Adams & Nina Bonderup Dohn
By Michael Johnson, Felicity Healey-Benson, Catherine Adams & Nina Bonderup Dohn
This book champions phenomenologyâs place in networked learning theory, research, and practice. The book illuminates and showcases something of the powerful richness, depth, and novel insights offered by phenomenological perspectives on human experience to invoke a fundamental rethinking of experience in networked learning. It also signals the broader learning technology community to acknowledge and engage with these perspectives.
The editors and authors have collaborated to bring a renewed focus upon the human facet of networked learning. As our world becomes more digitally enmeshed, infiltrated, and contested, the need to investigate and convey, at maximum fidelity, the lived experience of learners, teachers, and other stakeholders in education becomes paramount. Through phenomenological inquiry, we disclose the complex dance between the human and the technical, spotlighting how individuals engage, navigate, and find meaning within virtual yet embodied landscapes. This approach suitably honours the complexity, profundity, and ethicality of human existence in our evolving digital ecologies.
The first section, âPhenomenological Perspectives in Researching Networked Learningâ lucidly explains phenomenology and some of its potential affordances. The second section, âPractising Phenomenological Research in Networked Learningâ, explicates the tangible practice of phenomenological research into specific phenomena: chapters sample of a select range of studies that also indicate the kind of insights such research can bring to networked learning. The concluding section presents two chapters that denote novel and arresting, âCritical Phenomenological Perspectives on Networked Learningâ. Together, these final chapters demonstrate the type of radical challenge that phenomenology can bring to the field, refreshing even networked learningâs most basic conceptions and practices.
With this book, we open a space for anyone who wishes to join us in the wonderful, inspiring, and challenging application of phenomenology within the field of networked learning.
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