Comparison of the Features of the Text space (traditional) and meta-text (virtual) with emphasis on poststructuralist theory and its criticism

چکیده مقاله

In Third Millennium, the use of computers and the Internet in education process has caused Meta-text approach to have increasingly more important place in teaching-learning process and has managed to create challenges in contemporary education. In fact, Meta -text approach with multiple functions has increased the impact of ICT. This study aimed to investigate and compare the features of the proto-text (traditional) and meta-text (virtual) with emphasis on poststructuralist theory and its criticism by using descriptive–analytical methods. Then, Implies, doctrine and criticism in the field of education was analyzed with an emphasis on poststructuralist theory. The results indicated that unlike proto-text, meta-text had ability for deconstruction of thoughts and ideas in the field of education. It reflects the release of human consciousness from linearity prison and hierarchy and move toward a new and vast field of possibilities open in structured knowledge acquisition. It tends to change the culture of reading and writing and minimize the boundaries between the writer (author of the textbook or teacher) and the reader (high school student).