Sage without a Stage: Expanding the Object of Teaching in a Web-Based, High-School Classroom

This paper reports on a study that uses cultural historical activity theory (CHAT) to make sense of e-teachers’ activity in a context of high-school distance education. Data collection involved semi-structured interviews with 13 e-teachers as well as seven management and support personnel in an orga...

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Autores principales:	Elizabeth Murphy, Maria A. Rodriguez-Manzanares
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Publicado:	Athabasca University Press 2009
Materias:	Online learning e-teaching high school cultural historical activity theory expansive learning Special aspects of education LC8-6691
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:7105f5d6ce2b42f68d05f0c9fda5397a2021-12-02T19:20:49ZSage without a Stage: Expanding the Object of Teaching in a Web-Based, High-School Classroom10.19173/irrodl.v10i3.5791492-3831https://doaj.org/article/7105f5d6ce2b42f68d05f0c9fda5397a2009-06-01T00:00:00Zhttp://www.irrodl.org/index.php/irrodl/article/view/579https://doaj.org/toc/1492-3831This paper reports on a study that uses cultural historical activity theory (CHAT) to make sense of e-teachers’ activity in a context of high-school distance education. Data collection involved semi-structured interviews with 13 e-teachers as well as seven management and support personnel in an organization responsible for the design and delivery of high-school distance education in the province of Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. As well, the authors conducted a second round of interviews with 12 of the 13 teachers. Findings revealed that the traditional metaphor of teacher as ‘sage on the stage’ ceased to have a reference point in the distributed online classroom. The e-teachers were widening the object of their activity to include less teacher-centered forms of learning that involved more student independence.Elizabeth MurphyMaria A. Rodriguez-ManzanaresAthabasca University PressarticleOnline learninge-teachinghigh schoolcultural historical activity theoryexpansive learningSpecial aspects of educationLC8-6691ENInternational Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, Vol 10, Iss 3 (2009)
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description	This paper reports on a study that uses cultural historical activity theory (CHAT) to make sense of e-teachers’ activity in a context of high-school distance education. Data collection involved semi-structured interviews with 13 e-teachers as well as seven management and support personnel in an organization responsible for the design and delivery of high-school distance education in the province of Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. As well, the authors conducted a second round of interviews with 12 of the 13 teachers. Findings revealed that the traditional metaphor of teacher as ‘sage on the stage’ ceased to have a reference point in the distributed online classroom. The e-teachers were widening the object of their activity to include less teacher-centered forms of learning that involved more student independence.
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Sage without a Stage: Expanding the Object of Teaching in a Web-Based, High-School Classroom

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