Conversations : computer mediated dialogue, multilogue, and learning
- UNCG Author/Contributor (non-UNCG co-authors, if there are any, appear on document)
- Beth Ann W. Baldwin (Creator)
- Institution
- The University of North Carolina at Greensboro (UNCG )
- Web Site: http://library.uncg.edu/
- Advisor
- Hephzibah Roskelly
Abstract: The purpose of this dissertation is to argue in favor of a "pedagogy of textual conversation," a pedagogy made possible in large part by electronic technology, by computer mediated communication. Informing the argument is a deep philosophical commitment to conversation itself as the primary mode of meaning-making in both social and personal life. Material presented in support of the main argument is drawn from current and past pedagogical and communications theory as well as from ethnographic research conducted in the fall semester of 1994 in which students in an English composition class were linked to students in an education class via a single VAX electronic conference. Actual experiences in the electronic medium are forwarded to suggest that those who engage in extensive textual conversation with one another benefit from improved rhetorical skills, understanding of course content, the ability to make connections between ideas, and a liberalization of ideological views.
Conversations : computer mediated dialogue, multilogue, and learning
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- Publication
- Dissertation
- Language: English
- Date: 1996
- Subjects
- Conversation $x Research
- Communication in education
- Telematics