Education, Social Interaction, and Material Co-presence: Against Virtual Pedagogical Reality |
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| Authors: | Jeff Noonan Mireille Coral |
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| Institution: | 1. University of Windsor, Windsor, ON, Canada
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| Abstract: | A crucial role of the educator, we contend, is to motivate students to want to feel the pain that all cognitive growth requires. This challenge, we will suggest, makes a certain form of conflict essential to the pedagogical relationship, a conflict which requires copresence in shared physical space. If we are correct, then on-line contexts are not conducive to education. Virtual environments permit the exchange of useful (and useless) information, but the absence of genuine, felt human contact limits their educational value, even when they provide highly mediated social interactions. |
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