In Women's Ways of Knowing, Belenky, Clinchy, Goldberger, and Tarule describe the different possibilities of female intellectual awareness (knowing) from silence, to received knowledge, to subjective knowledge, to procedural knowledge, to constructed knowledge. It is the constructed knowledge that fits quite well into Web 2.0 capabilities such as social networking, blogging, creating wikis, podcasting, and more. In this last "way of knowing", women, the authors assert, are able to create "the optimum setting so that half baked, emergent ideas can grow" (144) and they are able to identify and use “a way of connecting to others and acquiring and communicating new knowledge” (145).
Connecting, innovating, incubating, listening, providing context, seeking, recording, sharing, and declaring: all of these activities are reflected in the technology tools that are a part of eLearning. The student who comments on a blog puts her voice into publication, into the public sphere, into a conversation with anyone and everyone who reads the blog. The student who contributes to a class wiki is physically and mentally engaged in the act of producing knowledge, of recording and communicating intellectual growth, of collaborating with others to create. The student who uses coursework posted on Open Source sites is able to control the pace and the content of her learning.
Source:
Belenky, M. F., Clinchy, B. M., Goldberger, N. R., and Tarule, J. M. (1997). Women's ways of knowing: The development of self, voice and mind. Tenth anniversary edition. New York: Basic Books.
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Research Question:
How can the College's Graduate/Professional Studies programs be enhanced or reconfigured in order to meet the changing needs in Northeast Ohio?
This is an attempt to capture my research process and to share my research findings with as many people as possible. My project goal is to research workforce needs and economic development projections in Northeast Ohio in order to provide recommendations for program enhancement, particularly in Graduate and Professional Studies.
I chose to conduct my project in this public manner in order to explore one aspect of the type of technologically integrated learning for which I am advocating. I have not blogged before, so bear with me.
Early posts merely reflect information gathered. As I progress, my later posts will be more analytical and synthetic. I invite any and all comments, thoughts, musings, questions, and connections. The more personal input I receive, the more meaningful my recommendations will become.
If I have learned anything in the past few weeks, it is certainly that there are many important things that I just don't know, so help me out if you see the need.
Please click on the links that are in (almost) every post to get detailed information from the source itself.
How can the College's Graduate/Professional Studies programs be enhanced or reconfigured in order to meet the changing needs in Northeast Ohio?
This is an attempt to capture my research process and to share my research findings with as many people as possible. My project goal is to research workforce needs and economic development projections in Northeast Ohio in order to provide recommendations for program enhancement, particularly in Graduate and Professional Studies.
I chose to conduct my project in this public manner in order to explore one aspect of the type of technologically integrated learning for which I am advocating. I have not blogged before, so bear with me.
Early posts merely reflect information gathered. As I progress, my later posts will be more analytical and synthetic. I invite any and all comments, thoughts, musings, questions, and connections. The more personal input I receive, the more meaningful my recommendations will become.
If I have learned anything in the past few weeks, it is certainly that there are many important things that I just don't know, so help me out if you see the need.
Please click on the links that are in (almost) every post to get detailed information from the source itself.
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