The Embodiment Dimension While Learning and Teaching in a Virtual World
Martine Gadille, Maria Antonietta Impedovo
The paper focuses on the features of embodiment
configurations when using the virtual world in the classroom.
The context is a secondary school (students aged 11-15)
adopting an educational immersive 3D virtual world. We
conducted participant observation, collecting video-audio
records supported by a student focus group and teachers’
interviews. The analytical framework of this paper draws on
the iterative interaction of the complex arrangement of bodies
and objects in physical and virtual settings. Our results
highlight the dynamic ways in which the arrangement of bodies
and material acted as a mediational means between real and
virtual settings. Full Text
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