Educational Technology and Pedagogic Encounters

Educational Technology and Pedagogic Encounters
Title Educational Technology and Pedagogic Encounters PDF eBook
Author Yusef Waghid
Publisher Springer
Pages 141
Release 2016-07-15
Genre Education
ISBN 9463005463

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This book looks at some of the underlying theories of educational technology (means), and ways in which this technology is guided in practice (ends). The authors are intent on producing ends that prepare students to undertake new analyses and evaluations that can result in new possibilities for democratic action. Emphasis is on their understanding of and position within educational technology – as opposed to using or applying educational technology. The work is not written from the point of view that their embeddedness within educational technology has a utilitarian end in mind, but rather that their situatedness within educational technology (a practice in itself) leaves open possibilities for new ways of understanding democratic education. This book is organised into six interrelated themes that work towards the cultivation of educational technology as a human practice which guides pedagogic encounters on the basis of taking risks in relation to which the unexpected, unimaginable is always possible.

Critical Digital Pedagogy

Critical Digital Pedagogy
Title Critical Digital Pedagogy PDF eBook
Author Jesse Stommel
Publisher
Pages 336
Release 2020-07-17
Genre Education
ISBN 9780578725918

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The work of teachers is not just to teach. We are also responsible for the basic needs of students. Helping students eat and live, and also helping them find the tools they need to reflect on the present moment. This is exactly in keeping with Paulo Freire's insistence that critical pedagogy be focused on helping students read their world; but more and more, we must together reckon with that world. Teaching must be an act of imagination, hope, and possibility. Education must be a practice done with hearts as much as heads, with hands as much as books. Care has to be at the center of this work.For the past ten years, Hybrid Pedagogy has worked to help craft a theory of teaching and learning in and around digital spaces, not by imagining what that work might look like, but by doing, asking after, changing, and doing again. Since 2011, Hybrid Pedagogy has published over 400 articles from more than 200 authors focused in and around the emerging field of critical digital pedagogy. A selection of those articles are gathered here. This is the first peer-reviewed publication centered on the theory and practice of critical digital pedagogy. The collection represents a wide cross-section of both academic and non-academic culture and features articles by women, Black people, indigenous people, Chicanx and Latinx writers, disabled people, queer people, and other underrepresented populations. The goal is to provide evidence for the extraordinary work being done by teachers, librarians, instructional designers, graduate students, technologists, and more - work which advances the study and the praxis of critical digital pedagogy.

African Democratic Citizenship Education Revisited

African Democratic Citizenship Education Revisited
Title African Democratic Citizenship Education Revisited PDF eBook
Author Yusef Waghid
Publisher Springer
Pages 283
Release 2017-11-28
Genre Education
ISBN 3319678612

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This edited collection explores how democratic citizenship education manifests across the African continent. A recognition of rights and responsibilities coupled with an emphasis on deliberative engagement among citizens, while not uniquely African, provides ample evidence that the concept can most appropriately be realised in relation to its connectedness with experiences of people living on the continent. Focussing on a diverse collection of voices, the editors and authors examine countries that have an overwhelming allegiance to democratic citizenship education. In doing so, they acknowledge that this concept, enveloped by a certain Africanness, has the potential to manifest in practices across the African continent. By highlighting the success of democratic citizenship education, the diverse and varied contributions from across this vast continent address the malaise in its implementation in countries where autocratic rule prevails. This pioneering volume will be an invaluable resource for researchers and students working in the fields of education and sociology, particularly those with an interest in education policy, philosophy of education and global citizenship initiatives.

University Education, Controversy and Democratic Citizenship

University Education, Controversy and Democratic Citizenship
Title University Education, Controversy and Democratic Citizenship PDF eBook
Author Nuraan Davids
Publisher Springer Nature
Pages 231
Release 2020-11-16
Genre Education
ISBN 3030569853

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This book explores the role of the university in upholding democratic values for societal change. The chapters advocate for the moral virtue of democratic patriotism: the editors and contributors argue that universities, as institutions of higher learning, can encourage the creation of critical and patriotic citizens. The book suggests that non-violence, tolerance, and peaceful co-existence ought to manifest through pedagogical university actions on the basis of educators’ desire to cultivate reflectiveness, criticality, and deliberative inquiry in and through their academic programmes. In a way, universities can respond more positively to the violence on our campuses and in society if public and controversial issues were to be addressed through an education for democratic citizenship and human rights.

Towards a Philosophy of Caring in Higher Education

Towards a Philosophy of Caring in Higher Education
Title Towards a Philosophy of Caring in Higher Education PDF eBook
Author Yusef Waghid
Publisher Springer
Pages 212
Release 2018-12-29
Genre Education
ISBN 3030039617

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This book advances a re-imagined view of caring in higher education. The author proposes an argument of rhythmic caring, whereby teachers hold back or release their judgments in such a way that students’ judgments are influenced accordingly. In doing so, the author argues that rhythmic caring encourages students to become more willing and confident in articulating their understandings, judgments and opinions, rather than being prematurely judged and prevented from re-articulating themselves. Thus, rhythmic caring can engender a different understanding of higher education: one that is connected to the cultivation of values such as autonomy, justice, empathy, mutual respect and Ubuntu (human dignity and interdependence). This book will be of interest and value to students and scholars of caring within education, as well as Ubuntu caring through the African context.

Pedagogical Encounters in the Post-Anthropocene, Volume 2

Pedagogical Encounters in the Post-Anthropocene, Volume 2
Title Pedagogical Encounters in the Post-Anthropocene, Volume 2 PDF eBook
Author jan jagodzinski
Publisher Springer Nature
Pages 356
Release
Genre
ISBN 3031547837

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Mediating Learning in Higher Education in Africa

Mediating Learning in Higher Education in Africa
Title Mediating Learning in Higher Education in Africa PDF eBook
Author
Publisher BRILL
Pages 255
Release 2021-05-25
Genre Education
ISBN 9004464018

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This book enters the discourse of the scholarship of teaching and learning in higher education in Africa. The book provides critical insights comprising topical themes from transformation, citizenship and gender, researching to ethical perspectives of teaching and learning.