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VIRTUAL EVENT: Digital wayfaring: post-human knowledge practices in higher education
20 January 2021, 12:00 pm–2:00 pm
In this webinar, 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.
This event is free.
Event Information
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- All
Availability
- Yes
Cost
- Free
Organiser
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Centre for Higher Education Studies (CHES)
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Digital wayfaring: post-human knowledge practices in higher education (PPT, 16.5MB)
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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- Centre for Higher Education Studies (CHES)
- Department of Education, Practice and Society
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About the Speaker
Professor Lesley Gourlay
Professor of Education at the UCL Institute of Education
More about Professor Lesley Gourlay