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Title: | Teacher education online : towards inclusive virtual learning communities |
Other Titles: | Teacher education for inclusion : changing paradigms and innovative approaches |
Authors: | Bartolo, Paul A. |
Keywords: | Teachers -- Case studies Teachers -- Training of -- Case studies Multicultural education -- Case studies Inclusive education -- Case studies |
Issue Date: | 2010 |
Publisher: | Routledge |
Citation: | Bartolo, P. (2010). Teacher education online: Towards inclusive virtual learning communities. In C. Forlin (Ed.), Teacher education for inclusion : changing paradigms and innovative approaches (pp. 146-155). London: Routledge. |
Abstract: | Inclusive education has long been associated with the idea of learning communities. Inclusion is first of all a social phenomenon that enables all students to belong fully to their classrooms and schools by being called upon and supported to participate in collaborative learning. Such a process entails a responsive and constructivist approach to teaching and learning (Bartolo et al., 2007). Psychological constructivism calls for learner-centred teaching that encourages and enables meaningful learning by giving each learner an opportunity to link new knowledge to prior experience; and social constructivism calls for collaborative social interaction as an indispensable tool for learning. These inclusive and constructivist approaches need to be reflected also in pre-service teacher education (Bartolo and Smyth, 2009). Collaborative learning has taken a new meaning through the use of social networking tools that are enabling the creation of VLCs, i.e. virtual communities of learners who share a common interest, idea, or goal and enter into an electronic communication network of interactions “through which the process of knowledge acquisition is collaboratively created” (Palloff and Pratt, 2007, p. 5). |
URI: | https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/100081 |
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