Teacher Education
In absentia: Designing for social learning
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2-2008
Publisher
Springer
Abstract
One characterization of the past hundred years of social science is that we have been steadily or endlessly (depending on your belief in progress) been dissolving the individual into the social. Maurice Halbwachs (1994) and Mary Douglas (1986) argued that the heretofore quintessentially individual act of remembering was always inextricably collective. Critical theorists and social scientists such as Jonathon Culler (1982) and Howard Becker (1982) have argued that great literature and art in turn are group productions. For educational theory, Vygotsky inter alia uncovered the irremediably social nature of learning. CSCW has as a field situated itself very comfortably within this collectivist movement – from the work of Twidale et al. (1995) a decade ago on the collaborative nature of browsing, through the articles in this special issue exploring social learning mediated by artifacts.
Recommended Citation
Hernández-Ramos, P., & Bowker, G. (2008). In absentia: Designing for social learning. Computer Supported Cooperative Work, (17), 1, 87-90.
http://doi.org/10.1007/s10606-007-9066-z
