words tech power and education

There is an urgent need to deconstruct and re-frame the dominant ideology surrounding the place, pace and use of technology within higher education. This hegemonic position is framed by a narrative that prioritises the use of technologies for personalisation, efficiency, effectiveness, value-for-money, transparency, openness and participation. However, critique of this narrative is limited. We believe that in order to engage meaningfully with the disruptions of political economy, those involved in innovations in the use of technology in higher education need to take a more critical stance.

In order to develop this position, Richard Hall, Dave White and Joss Winn will be offering a series of four, open workshops that will aim at a critical deconstruction of the place of technology within higher education in all its social forms, and the development of viable futures. These workshops will focus upon:

1. Deconstructing the neutrality of technology in higher education.

2. Social relations, mass intellectuality and a pedagogy of excess.

3. The cult of openness.

4. Technology and power in higher education.

Would you get on-board as part of a bid to take this forward? If so, email Richard Hall.