Share Paper: Teaching Care Ethics in the M>ch}nE Age: Collaborative Online Instruction

  1. Colette Rabin, San Jose State University, United States
  2. Smith Grinell, San Jose State University, United States
Tuesday, March 3 10:15 AM-11:15 AM Amazon B-F Rounds

Abstract: In an online course on Health Education for teacher candidates in one large urban university teacher preparation program, we sought to counteract the isolation that can contribute to student disengagement (Aragon, 2003). Student engagement has long been recognized as a necessary factor in learning (Dewey, 1938, Piaget, 1970; Vygotsky, 1978). Engagement in the learning process is understood as an inherently social problem (Bibeau, 2001); Thus, we were interested in carefully designing the social organization of our course. Furthermore, as teacher educators, we were particularly attuned to the need for the social organization to cultivate collaboration in order to counteract the ...