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Engaged Learning with Emerging Technologies (Paperback, Softcover reprint of hardcover 1st ed. 2006)
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Engaged Learning with Emerging Technologies (Paperback, Softcover reprint of hardcover 1st ed. 2006)
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Gerry Stahl Drexel University, Philadelphia, USA The theme of
engaged learning with emerging technology is a timely and important
one. This book proclaims the global relevance of the topic and
sharpens its focus. I would like to open the book by sketching some
of the historical context and dimensions of application, before the
chapter authors provide the substance. Engagement with the world -
To be human is to be engaged with other people in the world. Yet,
there has been a dominant strain of thought, at least in the West,
that directs attention primarily to the isolated individual as
naked mind. From classical Greece to modern times, engagement in
the daily activities of human existence has been denigrated. Plato
(340 BC/1941) banished worldly engagement to a realm of shadows,
removed from the bright light of ideas, and Descartes (1633/1999)
even divorced our minds from our own bodies. It can be suggested
that this is a particularly Western tendency, supportive of the
emphasis on the individual agent in Christianity and capitalism.
But the view of people as originally unengaged has spread around
the globe to the point where it is now necessary everywhere to take
steps to reinstate engagement through explicit efforts. Perhaps the
most systematic effort to rethink the nature of human being in
terms of engagement in the world was Heidegger's (1927/1996). He
argued that human existence takes place through our concern with
other people and things that are meaningful to us.
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