A New Perspective on Education in the Digital Age

Front matter

A New Perspective on Education in the Digital Age

Jesper lekke and Michael Paulsen ii

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Introduction

6 Filter Bubbles and Lockdowns References vii

Illustrations

Figures

1.1 Media epochs and the possibility of teaching

1.2 The external understanding of Bildung

1.3 The internal understanding of Bildung

1.4 The dimensions of critical Bildung

1.5 The critical understanding of Bildung

1.6 The experimental understanding of Bildung

2.1 Teaching practices and critical Bildung

3.1 The three waves of responses to digital media in education

3.2 The SME second wave strategy model

3.3 Different variants of responses to digital media

4.1 An analytical model of how to work with Bildung in the digital age

5.1 A Big Data Machine

5.2 Citizen Big Data Machine as state or corporate medium

5.3 The New emerging Big Cyborgs

5.4 The inside of the new Big Cyborgs

5.5 The totalitarian state Big Data Cyborg

5.6 Student Big Data Machine as a medium for producing the desired citizen.

5.7 Democratically controlled SBDM

Tables

4.1 New aims and means in the single subject matters viii

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Preface

In this book, we present a comprehensive theory of digital media and education, including a chapter on COVID-19 lockdowns, in which we all, as professionals, students and institutions, were seriously tested in our capacities to be online. The book is the fruit of our appropriation of continental thought and our own action-based research on new digital media and teaching, which we have carried out in the period 2006-2020. It is with great gratitude that we thank our Danish publisher Unge Pædagoger (UP) for permission to use content from our five books in Danish (Paulsen and Tække 2013; 2015b; 2016e; 2018 and 2019). We also thank The Journal of Communication and Media Studies for letting our English publisher buy the rights for us to use the article Acting with and against Big Data in School and Society: The Big Democratic Questions of Big Data (Paulsen and Teekke 2020). In addition, we thank the many other journals that we have published in and referred to in this book.

We would also like to thank Aarhus University for providing funding to support this book’s publication and make it available as Open Access through Bloomsbury’s Open Access programme on www.bloomsburycollections.com.

Our biggest thank you goes to our English publisher Bloomsbury for publishing this book and especially to our editor Alison Baker who trusted in us and our book from the beginning and who have helped us all the way through the process. Also thank you to Evangeline Stanford who has assisted Alison with great talent. We also want to thank Dr Stephen Dixon for writing the excellent Foreword to the book with all his insight and knowledge of the field. Last, we want to thank our many colleagues for their critical and helpful comments during the years, the many teachers and students that we have observed and interviewed, and to our families for backing us through our research. With all this help and valuable critique, we now provide a comprehensive presentation of our suggestions on how to critically understand education in the present media environment.

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