The aesthetic experience of learning between real and virtual

Abstract

From Socrates to Dewey, learning is linked to reality and movement, in relation to the aesthetic implications of the communication/education dynamic: the possibilities offered by the virtual in the educational logic exist as a choice to increase reality, not decrease it. The article retraces stages of pedagogical thought in which the question of movement is central, opening the history of education to the work of Marshall McLuhan who first investigated the relationship media-learning. Also in the didactic practices of the current pandemic moment of "distance learning” has been introduced, we cannot disregard the idea of education as an "aesthetic experience", in search of beauty and of a balance, precarious yet rich, between real and virtual.