1st Edition

Exploring What is Lost in the Online Undergraduate Experience A Philosophical Inquiry into the Meaning of Remote Learning

By Steve Stakland Copyright 2023
196 Pages
by Routledge

196 Pages
by Routledge

196 Pages
by Routledge

This book examines the significance and meaning of undergraduate online learning using a hermeneutic phenomenological study, asking what is lost when there is no face-to-face contact and exploring the essence of technology itself. Drawing on data from undergraduate students across various higher education institutions, including both interview recordings and written reports of their lived... Read more

Foreword by by Holger Zaborowski

1. Introduction: The Phenomenon, Methodology and Background to Participants

2. The Withdrawn or Lost Face of Online Undergraduate Learning

3. The Irksome Face of Online Undergraduate Learning

4. Experiencing the Synchronous but Absent Face

5. Writing to No Face and Everyone: The Present Absence

6. Solitude and Inauthenticity

7. Vulnerability and Community: Body and Conversation

8. Reciprocal Voyeurism: Hiding from Others Together

9. Narrowed Purpose: Text, Money and Efficiency

10. The Game of Facelessness

11. Response-Ability

12. Facing the Void: Body and Soul

13. Facing Some Parts of Learning Online Post-COVID-19

14. The Post-COVID-19 Lacuna in Higher Education

15. Interlude: Engaging Poetically with Insights and Implications

16. Works and Days: A Response to the Void in Higher Education after COVID-19

17. Face-to-Face Learning is a Focal Practice

18. Death in the Desert: Finding the Soul of Undergraduate Learning

19. Teaching Undergraduates after COVID-19: Harder to Learn to Let Learn than to Learn

20. What is the Meaning of what is Lost in Non-Face-to-Face Teaching?

21. Questioning is the Piety of Thought: The Wonder of Education

Biography

Steve Stakland is Associate Professor and Philosophy Department Chair at Northern Virginia Community College, USA.