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The pharmakon of educational technology : the disruptive power of attention in education

Lewin, David (2016) The pharmakon of educational technology : the disruptive power of attention in education. Studies in Philosophy and Education, 35 (3). pp. 251-265. ISSN 0039-3746

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Abstract

Is physical presence an essential aspect of a rich educational experience? Can forms of virtual encounter achieve engaged and sustained education? Technophiles and technophobes might agree that authentic personal engagement is educationally normative. They are more likely to disagree on how authentic engagement is best achieved. This article argues that educational thinking around digital pedagogy unhelpfully reinforces this polarising debate by failing to recognise that digitalisation is, as Stiegler has argued, pharmacological: both a poison and a cure. I suggest that Biesta’s critique of learnification can be applied to online learning, but that any such application does not sufficiently acknowledge the pharmacological nature of modern technology. While Stiegler has something important to contribute on the relation between technology, attention and education, I suggest his account is rather too bound up with critical theories of technology. In the end I turn to philosophers of religion, such as Eliade and Smith to suggest different ways of conceiving the role of attention in education that does set technologies up over/against the formation of attention essential to education.

Item type: Article
ID code: 55773
Keywords: Biesta , Stiegler, Eliade, attention, technology, Education, Education
Subjects: Education
Department: Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences (HaSS) > School of Education > Education
Depositing user: Pure Administrator
Date deposited: 07 Mar 2016 12:08
Last modified: 15 Feb 2019 22:30
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