The Philosophy of Peer Learning: Educational Philosophy and Theory
Editors: DANIEL ARAYA, MICHEL BAUWENS & FRANCO IACOMELLA
Description
Peer production has become an important organizing logic for a network-driven era. Social networks like Facebook, LinkedIn, Ning, flickr, YouTube and Wikipedia, are facilitating social connectivity on a massive scale. Developments in ICT networks now define and shape information production and potentially transform the organization of cognitive labor. What happens to learning, to educational institutions, and to society in general, when the balance between formal and informal education is radically reformulated? What happens when informal learning in peer communities becomes the norm, and formal education the adjunct? What does education and learning become when it is marked by openness, co-participation, and a commons of shared educational material? While this emergent trend has not yet fully affected mainstream education, it has become a reality for the millions of citizens and knowledge workers connected together through the Internet. In this special issue of Educational Philosophy and Theory, we will examine the multiple ways in which peer collaboration and peer learning now undergird social, pedagogical and philosophical changes in education. Topics of interest include (but are not limited to):
- Technologies and infrastructures for peer learning
- Open access issues (open access publishing, open textbooks)
- Education as a commons
- p2p learning theories and approaches
- The social dynamics of peer learning
- Open accreditation and other peer recognition practices
- Studies on the relations between informal and formal learning and their mutual adaptation or antagonism
- Attitudes of traditional education practitioners and institutions vis a vis p2p learning challenges; attitudes of peer learners towards traditional educational institutions
- Governance of p2p oriented learning communities and the emergence of participatory practices
- social change induced by p2p learning socialization
Editorial Contacts
Daniel Araya
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
daniel at jgse.org
Michel Bauwens
P2P Foundation
michelsub2004 at gmail.com
Franco Iacomella
P2P Foundation
franco at p2pfoundation.net
Articles for Consideration
Articles for submission should be no more than 6000 words. It is essential that an Abstract (100-200 words) be provided with each article. The author’s name and affiliation should appear at the beginning of the article, together with full mailing and email addresses. Abstracts should be sent by email to the editors.
Deadline for Abstracts: September 1, 2011
Deadline for final submission: January 1, 2012
June 20th, 2011 at 8:15 pm
Ummm. I’m not sure I see the logic of a special issue on peer learning when the journal sits behind a publisher’s paywall. Is there something I’m missing?
June 21st, 2011 at 4:34 am
good and legitimate argument and question, and indeed a paradox. I’ll see what we can do about this through Daniel Araya, who is closest to that publisher.
Michel