Fwd - The Philosophy of Peer Learning: Educational Philosophy and Theory June 25, 2011
The Philosophy of Peer Learning: Educational Philosophy and Theory
Editors: DANIEL ARAYA, MICHEL BAUWENS & FRANCO IACOMELLA
Description
Peer production has become an important organizing logic for a network-driven era. Social networks like Facebook, LinkedIn, Ning, flickr, YouTube and Wikipedia, are facilitating social connectivity on a massive scale. Developments in ICT networks now define and shape information production and potentially transform the organization of cognitive labor. What happens to learning, to educational institutions, and to society in general, when the balance between formal and informal education is radically reformulated? What happens when informal learning in peer communities becomes the norm, and formal education the adjunct? What does education and learning become when it is marked by openness, co-participation, and a commons of shared educational material? While this emergent trend has not yet fully affected mainstream education, it has become a reality for the millions of citizens and knowledge workers connected together through the Internet. In this special issue of Educational Philosophy and Theory, we will examine the multiple ways in which peer collaboration and peer learning now undergird social, pedagogical and philosophical changes in education.Deadline for Abstracts: September 1, 2011
Deadline for final submission: January 1, 2012