Type of Document	Dissertation
Author	Scheckler, Rebecca Klein
Author's Email Address	rebecca@vt.edu
URN	etd-04052000-23410030
Title	Weaving feminism, pragmatism, and distance education
Degree	PhD
Department	Teaching and Learning
Advisory Committee	Advisor Name Title Jim Garrison Committee Co-Chair John Burton Committee Co-Chair Barbara Lockee Committee Member Kusum Singh Committee Member Megan Boler Committee Member Susan Magliaro Committee Member
Keywords	educational philosophy ecofeminism computer mediated communication instructional technology postmodernism
Date of Defense	2000-04-18
Availability	unrestricted
Abstract From images of distance education (DE) in advertisements to examples of extant DE theory and practice, and finally to a possible dystopia and utopia for DE, this dissertation investigates the rich representations at the intersection of feminism, pragmatism, and web based distance education. It is composed of three parts. The first part is the construction of a feminist-pragmatic theoretical and analytical tool, motivated by images of DE in commercial advertisements. These images include control of nature (and the natural body), gendered experience, transactions of bodies and tools, loss of bodies, and atomic individualism. In response to these images, the main unifying theme of the tool is organic holism where the world as a dynamic system connects with culture, biology, history, and context. It draws heavily on the work of John Dewey, Charlene Haddock Seigfried, Timothy Kaufman-Osborn, Shannon Sullivan, Nancy Fraser, Donna Haraway, Sandra Harding, and Carolyn Merchant in order to form a rich weaving useful to instructional technologists and philosophers of education. The second part explores three examples of extant web based distance education using this tool. Lastly, I explore alternatives to current instantiations of distance education including a dystopia and a melioristic option that I call sustainable technology.
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