Open AccessCommunity of Learners: Ontological and non-ontological projects
Author(s) -
Eugene Matusov,
Katherine von Dyuke,
Sohyun Han
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
outlines/critical social studies
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1904-0210
pISSN - 1399-5510
DOI - 10.7146/ocps.v14i1.6062
Subject(s) - dialogic , notice , agency (philosophy) , situated , process (computing) , order (exchange) , polyphony , epistemology , sociology , computer science , mathematics education , pedagogy , knowledge management , psychology , artificial intelligence , political science , social science , philosophy , finance , law , economics , operating system
Our analysis reveals two major types of "Community of Learners" (COL) projects: instrumental and ontological. In instrumental COL, the notion of community is separated from instruction in order to reach some preset endpoints: curricular or otherwise. We notice three main instrumental COL models: relational, instructional, and engagement. Ontological COL redefines learning as an ill-defined, distributed, social, multi-faceted, poly-goal, agency-based, and situated process that integrates all educational aspects. We will consider two ontological COL projects into: narrowly dialogic and polyphonic.