Digital Dialogue in the Game of Collaborative Knowledge Building: A Democratic Endeavour on the Intercultural Arena

This study addresses the potential of e-learning and educational technology for promoting intercultural education and an ethos of active democratic citizenship. While identifying the pedagogic approach and the construction of learning architectures as the core challenges in meeting the global need of digital literacy, it investigates the metaphor of drama and play as an optic for designing appropriate pedagogic e-learning architectures and cultivating for fruitful instructional learning processes. Through a design perspective inspired and formed by the metaphors of drama and play, the paper suggests, investigates and discusses, theoretically, and with reference to practice, the characteristics of a specific pedagogical e-learning architecture as a useful model for design. It explores and assesses the extend to which using a design model for intercultural e-learning, developed from the concept of drama and play, may support learner empowerment through furthering intercultural learning processes and digital literacy, as well as promoting ethical awareness of democratic dialogic values and an attitude in learners as active global democratic citizens.