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The pragmatics and aesthetics of knowing: implications for online education

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Purpose – The aim of this paper is to contribute to making higher education, particularly online
education, more relevant and inspiring by orienting it toward the pragmatics and aesthetics of
knowing. This paper also demonstrates the relevance of cybernetics and cybernetic thinking in
education today.
Design/methodology/approach – The author’s general strategy is to connect processes of
knowing to the purpose of education, thus providing an organizing principle for the design and
practice of online education. Nontrivial conversation and aesthetic experience are combined in a
cybernetic complementarity, conceptualized as the processes that foster understanding. This serves
the purpose of education, defined here as developing an understanding of how knowledge is
constructed and fostering ways of knowing that are creative and complex.
Findings – Because the world has become increasingly complex, ambiguous, and pluralistic, the type
of thinking needed to act and interact in the world must also be complex, e.g. creative, adaptive,
relational, and empathetic. Research shows that this type of thinking is brought forth by aesthetic
experience and nontrivial conversation. Combining these as processes of knowing provides a
non-dogmatic way of orienting education toward student-centered constructivist learning.
Originality/value – Connecting nontrivial conversation and aesthetic experience as processes of
knowing is an original contribution to education literature. This is also an exemplar of generating a
cybernetic complementarity for conceptual modelling in education design. Anyone interested in how
online education can extend efforts to transform higher education so it may better facilitate thinking in
ways that are creative and complex will find this paper valuable.

Keywords Online education, Aesthetic experience, Conversation theory, Cybernetic complementarity,Knowing

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Kybernetes

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: Emerald Group., 2013

Deskripsi Fisik

Kybernetes Vol. 42 No. 8, 2013 pp. 1166-1180

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