An Inconvenient Truth: When Philosophy Goes Online in Graduate Teacher Education

• In Event: 66.057 - Roundtable Session 27
  In Roundtable Session: 66.057-6 - Technology and Education: Philosophical Perspectives

Abstract

This paper examines the practice of teaching philosophical foundations in online and hybrid courses with respect to the cultivation of a classroom climate that nurtures and supports the development of critical consciousness in students. The authors of this paper are social and philosophical foundations scholars who possess a successful track record of teaching even the most contentious foundations topics in face-to-face environment. Policy shifts at our institution have led us to teaching the same courses in fully or partially online, web-based environments forcing significant curricular changes. We hope to develop a deeper understanding of this meaning-making in practical, philosophical and theoretical ways.

Authors

• Sarah Militz-Frielink, University of Illinois at Chicago

• Pamela J. Konkol, Concordia University - Chicago