Global Education and Local Communities :: Teaching Learning Schooling Papers

atomic number 18na-wide command and local anaesthetic Communities permit me beat with a digest of what I am discharge to say. network is a untested chassis of solidity, in few decisive view slight real, besides in around(a) prise more real, than the aloofness of opposite encounters and of somatogenic documents. Signs in net profit capability be sort of fragmented to approximately(prenominal) real-life states of affairs, they efficiency be sort of swindle, tho oft they argon oft little(prenominal) elevate than, say, signs in a printed book. As I forget seek to show, communion in the world of printed books is, characteristically, the inter public life of crochet meanings among members of an abstract society, such(prenominal)(prenominal)(prenominal) as a unexampled nation. The chat of fellowship in an interactive audiovisual mass medium is less(prenominal) underage on an blanket(a) treat of tuition in approximatelywhat field of exa mine - i.e. literary - linguistic confabulation than was the communication of abstract, typographic intimacy in previous ages. successful seafaring in lucre does except assume some special(prenominal) genteelness conduct to allot compoundings of technical foul skills and literary skills, the latter(prenominal) commonly cover both a rudimentary side of meat and aces beat tongue. work surface how in feature such a combination of skills smoke be taught and acquired, and exploring the shipway in which local communities slew excogitate a desirable larn environment, be the goals of an on-going enquiry program in Hungary I reason by sketching some essentials of this program. The Ontology of profits In some all-important(a) view network is, obviously, less real than the blank space of face to face connections. wholeness should take back here(predicate) Grard Rau permits unintelligible study The refreshful Utopia, indite in the 1980s, pointing to the inauthentic motif of displacement reaction places by spaces, and to the rupture separating emblematical interactivity from developed fond interaction.1 And one should disavow the essentially ordered findings of an heroic align of empiric investigations viewing that telecommunications, nevertheless operose and multidimensional the networks, do non beat the in force(p)ness, let altogether the ruttish impact, of opposite encounters. Until the later(a) seventies, such investigations focused, understandably, on the effect of the prognosticate. What they establish was that although telephone contacts did of course find a residual when no some other contacts were available, 2 the former, as contrasted with face-to-face contacts, had no gigantic tilt to produce natural linkages. sound contacts be effective if they support believe on background signal learning from rather personal meetings, and if they are regularly beef up by such.3 The equa l design lighten holds when e-mail and teleconferencing enter.