Multicultural co-existence and e-learning : Any place for creativity and self-organization?(Session 1: Multicultural Co-existence and E-learning,E-learning beyond Cultural and Linguistic Barriers : Co-existence and Collaboration(NIME 2002 INTERNATIONAL SY

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• We investigate in this paper the nature of learning processes involving creativity in the context of the e-learning paradigm. Focusing on the concept of situated cognition and on the basic premises of the Self-Organization Theory we are going to inquire about the following questions! Is it possible to develop creative thinking through e-learning and distance education? Can multi-cultural relations constitute barriers for creative learning? We will start by assuming the common sense notion of culture, understood as forms of collective habits that shape thoughts and actions on the basis of attitudes, values, modes of perception and beliefs carried by individuals. Taking this notion into consideration, we characterize creative thinking as a self-organizing process of expansion of well-structured, culturally dependent, sets of habits that are worthy of collective attention and evaluation. We assume that in e-learning, this process involves internal and external context. The first can be characterized as the e-learner's set of beliefs, motivations, values, forms of perception and skills that are relevant to her/his process of thought creation and expansion. External context, in turn, constitutes the physical and social environment where the e- learning takes place. It is conceived, in general, as the organizational perspective on the learning/training process, which involves learning equipments, values and support presented to the individual's learning processes by his or her social environment. We suggest that cultural differences in the internal context may actually contribute to the process of creative learning, whereas cultural differences in the external context may form a significant barrier to creative learning. Given the great variety of background of positive and negative motivations (involving collective, self-organizing, interactions, language problems, and all sorts of material, technical and informational difficulties), creative thinking may face serious difficulties in e-learning communities.

著者

• Gonzalez Maria

  Post-graduate Program In Cognitive Science And Philosophy Of Mind Philosophy Department

• Haselager Willem

  Artificial Intelligence Cognitive Science Nijmegen Institute For Cognition And Information Universit

• Maria Eunice

  Post-Graduate Program in Cognitive science and Philosophy of Mind, Philosophy Department

• Willem (Pirn)

  Artificial Intelligence Cognitive Science, Nijmegen Institute for Cognition and Information, University of Nijmegen

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