Learning Places
Building Dwelling Thinking Online
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11952277 |
|---|---|
| Authors | David Kolb (Bates College, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2000 |
| Volume | 34 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 121-133 |
| Publication date | 2000-02-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Philosophy of Education (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0309-8249 • E-ISSN: 1467-9752 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1111/1467-9752.00160 |
| OpenAlex | W2082108002 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 6 |
Lack of information is hardly our problem.Information comes at us in waves, sloshing out of the magazine rack, lapping at our computer monitors.It repeats and repeats on all-day news shows.It comes neatly packaged as sound bites, or little nuggets ready for trivia games.We have plenty of information, but it's not often the information we need.Even if it is, we need to learn how to deal with it.It's not just the amount, but the speed.Too much happens everywhere that may be important anywhere.Too much comes for us to think it over.A serious enemy of education is a life of quick immediate intensities.Little intense bits of information delivered by sincere talking heads.Isolated serial intensities, one show or one song after another, one simplified role after another.Moments of intense experience, branded and labeled.Neither the information nor the experiences are abstract in the usual sense of the word, but they are abstract in another sense, taken from Hegel and Marx, where to call something abstract means that it has been pulled out of its constitutive relations and contexts, and so not encountered in its full reality.Education should restore those relations and contexts.It should dispel that illusory immediacy and completeness. On-line IssuesWe are all familiar with the liberal arts rant about specialized education and the need for critical thinking and a wide background in an age of mediazed superficiality.Few would disagree about the danger.But what do we do
BATES · Citation · Library science · Mathematics education · Sociology · Computer Science · Education and Technology Integration · Educational Environments and Student Outcomes · Engineering · Online and Blended Learning · Psychology
| Unique citing works | 6 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,25 |
| Citation span | 2002 - 2020 (19) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 6 |