Community of Learners: Ontological and non-ontological projects

Eugene Matusov, Katherine von Dyuke, Sohyun Han
2013 Outlines : Critical Social Studies  
Our analysis reveals two major types of "Community of Learners" (COL) projects: instrumental and ontological. In instrumental COL, the notion of community is separated from instruction in order to reach some preset endpoints: curricular or otherwise. We notice three main instrumental COL models: relational, instructional, and engagement. Ontological COL redefines learning as an ill-defined, distributed, social, multi-faceted, poly-goal, agency-based, and situated process that integrates all
more » ... ational aspects. We will consider two ontological COL projects into: narrowly dialogic and polyphonic.
doi:10.7146/ocps.v14i1.6062 fatcat:tgsrl4b4yfhzvcs3xtr2burtlu