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Alternative lifeworlds on the Internet: Habermas and democratic distance education

Tilak, Shantanu Amod
http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5264-2652
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1587177594821112

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2020, Master of Arts, Ohio State University, Educational Studies.
Current distance education practices can be susceptible to types of content-heavy, top-down instruction often seen in physical classrooms. These practices are similar to the activities of corporations, which use recommendation systems and game theory to mold the public sphere and fragment it. We propose that free knowledge creation through open, multichannel communication needs to be used in distance education to allow both individual and collective agency for students to process knowledge and develop higher order reflectivity. Such frameworks would help students of distance education, and instructors to use critical thinking to discuss concepts as equal stakeholders, and develop varied ideological outcomes that could contribute to creating social change. This conceptual paper places current distance education practices within Habermasian theory, discusses ways in which the Internet, and its educative potential has come to be viewed thus far, and suggests platforms that could open distance learning to new possibilities.
Michael Glassman (Advisor)
Bryan Warnick (Committee Member)
46 p.
Education; Political Science; Psychology; Sociology
critical theory; educational psychology; online learning; blended learning, CSCL

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  • Tilak, S. A. (2020). Alternative lifeworlds on the Internet: Habermas and democratic distance education [Master's thesis, Ohio State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1587177594821112

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Tilak, Shantanu. Alternative lifeworlds on the Internet: Habermas and democratic distance education. 2020. Ohio State University, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1587177594821112.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Tilak, Shantanu. "Alternative lifeworlds on the Internet: Habermas and democratic distance education." Master's thesis, Ohio State University, 2020. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1587177594821112

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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