VIRTUAL PEDAGOGICAL RHETORIC: A NEW WAY OF FOSTERING 21ST CENTURY COMPETENCES FOR TEACHERS AND STUDENTS

Abstract

There is an unexplored scientific niché positioned between the fields of the pedagogical rhetoric and the virtual rhetoric introduced by the author as virtual pedagogical rhetoric. This paper is an attempt to draw the margins of this new field in the context of the school education – the preparation of teachers for the pedagogical rhetorical act in the “native”, for the students, virtual environment. The research approach is carried out by the method of cyberethnography that allows for exploring the virtual classroom or the place where the teacher, as an orator, meets with his/her audience – the students. The results stipulate the importance for the teacher to acquire rhetorical skills in order to help students build competences for the 21st century.