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Tiêu đề
Liberal arts and distance education: Can socratic virtue {aret?) and Confucius' exemplary person (junzi) be taught online?
Tác giả
Ess C.
Năm xuất bản
2003
Source title
Arts and Humanities in Higher Education
Số trích dẫn
12
DOI
10.1177/1474022203002002002
Liên kết
Tóm tắt
The goals of a global liberal arts education, as conjoining both western and eastern sources, focus on 'virtue first', i.e. on pursuing human excellence (aret?). To determine whether such excellence can be taught online, I turn to contemporary research on Computer-Mediated Communication (CMC) and online education. Among other factors, important cultural issues as well as the real costs of online education have moderated 1990s enthusiasm for online learning as 'revolutionary'. I then take up Hubert Dreyfus' pedagogical taxonomy as it emphasizes the role of embodiment in learning. Expanding on his analysis, I argue that the most important goals of a global liberal arts education - precisely the goals of becoming excellent human beings capable of Aristotelian phron?sis, a key form of judgment crucial to not only professional success but also ethical and political life - require human teachers who incarnate the skills and judgment students need to acquire. These analyses, finally, support what is in fact a recent turn in online education towards blended classrooms that seek to exploit the distinctive advantages of both embodied and disembodied teaching. Copyright © 2003, SAGE PUBLICATIONS.
Từ khóa
Confucius; Cosmopolitans; Liberal arts; Online learning; Socrates; Virtue ethics
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SAGE Publications Ltd
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