A complex orientation to embodiment in online education: making online educational spaces more engaging and more socially just

online education;embodiment;diversity;equity;social justice

Greenhalgh-Spencer, Heather

关键词: online education;    embodiment;    diversity;    equity;    social justice;   

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美国|英语

来源: The Illinois Digital Environment for Access to Learning and Scholarship

【 摘 要 】

This dissertation argues that, in order to create more engaging and socially just onlineeducational spaces, a complex orientation to embodiment is needed. A complex orientation toembodiment includes critique, care, and reflection on what it means to be physically embodied;what it means to be positioned within society—in ways that reflect the interaction of physicalembodiment and societal discourses, ideologies, and institutional practices—in ways that giveaccess to or often draw lines of exclusion from power and resources; and creating criticalengagement around embodied relationships of labor. I analyze how embodiment is meaningfulfor online educational spaces; and then suggest ways to negotiate new design strategies andpedagogical practices with complex understandings of embodiment in mind; to create moreengaging and socially just online educational spaces. I advocate for an attention to details ofembodiment and materiality; and call for an orientation to embodiment (the physicality,positionality, and material relationships of bodies) to ground praxis.