The Place of the Classroom and the Space of the Screen: Relational Pedagogy and Internet Technology

by Norm Friesen

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.

183 pages, Hardcover

First published March 31, 2011

Reviews

[Ryan Smits · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is an analysis of the differences between online and offline education. The theoretical lens Friesen uses is that of an embodied relational pedagogy. I enjoyed the phenomenological analyses he presented in the opening sections of the book. The treatment about the role of silence was also illuminating. The book is analyzed through the lens of Merleau-Ponty's embodied phenomenology and the accompanying concept of life-world as experienced through the lived body, lived time, lived space, and lived relation.