The Meaning of Children's Cyber Space in Geography Education
Park Seung Kyu · The Journal of The Korean Association of Geographic and Environmental Education · 2010
The paper explores the meaning of children’s cyberspace in geography education. In order to approach the nature of cyberspace, the humanities approach has been attempted. Based on flâneure in cyberspace and cyborg, the meaning of cyberspace in the humanities approach reveals, and the meaning of children’s cyberspace is explored. Child leaves his or her trace in cyberspace as a flâneure, exploring around the cyberspace. And a variety of children’s cyber place are constructed. And it is through children show their identity through trace left in cyberspace. The trace in cyberspace is interpreted by the ‘das illustrative Sehen’ and then find that in terms of ‘memoire involontaire’. Thus, geography education helps children develop their identity through ‘cyber place’ in cyberspace. In addition, geography education is interested in everyday life space of children with repeated becommings and changes through extension of scope.