Virtual territories: transformative learning in online higher education contexts
Edited book (chapter)
Chapter Title | Virtual territories: transformative learning in online higher education contexts |
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Book Chapter Category | Edited book (chapter) |
ERA Publisher ID | 2978 |
Book Title | Troubling terrains: tactics for traversing and transforming contemporary educational research |
Authors | |
Author | Reushle, Shirley |
Editors | Henderson, Robyn and Danaher, Patrick Alan |
Page Range | 169-181 |
Number of Pages | 13 |
Year | 2008 |
Publisher | Post Pressed |
Place of Publication | Brisbane, Australia |
ISBN | 9781921214318 |
Web Address (URL) | http://www.postpressed.com.au |
Abstract | There are significant challenges in applying the principles of transformative learning in online, higher education contexts. Integrating theory with practice and simultaneously ensuring the authenticity of that practice creates a rich and complex virtual territory for research and opportunities for building upon theory. The principles of transformative learning provide vital navigation tools to learners, educators and researchers alike for exploring and inhabiting the online territory. In turn, that inhabitation contributes to an ongoing redrawing of the boundaries and contours of the territory, making it a fluid and ever-changing process. This chapter builds upon a study of an online professional development course facilitated from Australia by the author with a cohort of educators at a Singapore polytechnic. The author, as a collaborative practitioner researcher, reflects on this project and on two other ‘virtual territories’ that have since been explored. The chapter proposes strategies for practitioners and researchers to interrogate and evaluate the challenging terrains of authentic practice in online environments. |
Keywords | educational research; transformative learning; higher education; authentic practice; online |
ANZSRC Field of Research 2020 | 460609. Networking and communications |
390405. Educational technology and computing | |
390307. Teacher education and professional development of educators | |
Public Notes | File reproduced in accordance with the copyright policy of the publisher/author. |
Byline Affiliations | Faculty of Education |
https://research.usq.edu.au/item/9yz9z/virtual-territories-transformative-learning-in-online-higher-education-contexts
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