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Digital wayfaring: post-human knowledge practices in higher education
11 March 2020, 5:30 pm–7:00 pm
This seminar by Professor Lesley Gourlay has been rescheduled to 10 June 2020.
This event is free.
Event Information
Open to
- All
Cost
- Free
Organiser
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Centre for Higher Education Studies (CHES)
Location
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-UCL Institute of Education (IOE)20 Bedford WayLondonWC1H 0ALUnited Kingdom
In this seminar, Professor Lesley Gourlay will present a post-humanist reading of digital literacies which centres on embodiment, materiality, mobilities, and spatiality into our understanding of emergent digital knowledge practices.
Mainstream education tends to portray digital technologies and devices either as inert tools at the fingertips of a neoliberal student or as a force to be feared and therefore harnessed.
Professor Gourlay will argue that both of these views are problematic and inaccurate. Leading to a collapse into utopian/dystopian binaries and fantasies around digital magic and the disembodied user.
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Professor Lesley Gourlay
Professor of Education at UCL Institute of Education
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