The Phenomenology of Space in Writing Online
Conference:
ECER 2006
Format:
Symposium

Session Information

, Phenomenology in Education

Symposium

Time:
2006-09-14
15:30-17:00
Room:
4189
Chair:
Volker Kraft
Discussant:
Moira Von Wright

Contribution

Description: In this research paper we discuss how online seminar participants experience dimensions of embodiment, virtual space, interpersonal relations, and temporality; and how interacting through reading-writing, by means of online technologies, creates conditions, situations, and actions of pedagogical influence and relational affectivities. We investigate what happens when seminar participants (mostly doctoral and postdoctoral level students) reflect phenomenologically on the meaning of a human experience (phenomenon) that fascinates them. In writing online, participants are engaged in a spatial complexity of virtual experience: the space of the text and the space of the computer screen--both yield access to a non-physical space lying somewhere between the here and the there. We propose that Blanchot's early work on the imaginal space of the text provides a way of perceiving and raising questions, and a new way of understanding the nature of scripture and orality in technologized contexts and relations of teaching and learning.

Author Information

University of Alberta, Edmonton
University of Alberta, Edmonton

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