From Cave Prisoners to Future Educators: from an Ancient Text to New Interpretation.
Decoding Thinking Processes through On-line Dialogue
Keywords:
Future teachers; augmented Allegory; Virtual Forum; Future teacher's skillsAbstract
This article is based on thorough observation of forum
discussions of an on-line course that took place during the 2013
academic year. The research observes the thinking processes of students
when interpreting and providing augmented analogies for “The
Allegory of the Cave” in Plato's Politeia (Republic). These processes are
found to enable students: to reach insights concerning the
characteristics of the optimal educator that are necessary to meet the
challenges of the 21st century; to develop a narrative through the
appropriation the allegoric tale to create meaning associated with the
modern education system and their own future professional role; and
finally, to mediate through on-line discourse to bring about
collaborative learning and constructivist dialogue within the axis of
tension between the old and the new. In other words, learning within
this framework appears to be a direct process of knowledge
construction.
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