The Educational Networks of Cybercorporal 'Practicestheories'

Abstract

Considering that our formation occurs in a network – and assuming that some of these networks have already been systematized by research on everyday life – the text discusses, with the imagination of a future of Distance Learning as a guiding thread, the emergence, in times of Cyberculture, of a network of 'cybercorporeal practice-theories', empowered by the Covid-19 pandemic and its ramifications around the intensification of online life, with emphasis on the continuity of school/academic formation in times of physical isolation. The arts of engaging with Cyberculture, expanded by hypermedia languages, by ubiquity, and by the capacity to produce a body-writing, are perceived in this essay as hunting operations carried out by 'practitioner-thinkers' who narrate life – inventing it – to postpone the end of the world. Such writings – which can be hypercompositions of the self– present challenges and possibilities for education, especially for that which occurs in other presences, demanding that we rethink, among some topics, the resources, the teaching methodologies, the stimuli for authorship production, and the ways of conducting and circulating research in the field of Education, especially at the interface with technologies. Therefore – and to provoke inventive thinking – the text poses some questions for a teacher training attentive to the specificities of Distance Learning, capable of producing cyber-situated curricula in educational networks of 'cybercorporeal practice-theories'.  

Keywords: Teacher training for Distance Learning. Educational networks. Cyberculture. Cyberbodies.