Międzynarodowe Seminarium WP UW: 29.11.2024, godz. 13.30
Prof. Sarah Hayes: „What does it mean to teach critical thinking as an educator in ‘postdigital times’?”
The International Seminar at the Faculty of Education: Mokotowska 16/20, room 507
Date: Friday 29 November 2024, at 1.30 pm.
Special guest: prof. Sarah Hayes, PFHEA, Professor of Education and Research Lead, School of Education, Bath Spa University.
Prof. Sarah Hayes
What does it mean to teach critical thinking as an educator in ‘postdigital times’?
Critical pedagogies have long been concerned with reflexive practice and inclusive emancipatory education, where students and teachers make meaning together. However, an emphasis on social justice in human activities and a critique of consumerist education can still miss out postdigital critical consciousness concerning the impact of digital platform capitalism, data, design and coding on enforcing an existing social order. This reinforces an uncritical model where digital technologies, including Artificial Intelligence (AI) in education are perceived to simply 'fix’ societal and economic issues. This ignores the mutually constitutive nature of technologies in human lives and suggests a particular type of ‘student experience’, whilst excluding others. Therefore, in this seminar, Prof Sarah Hayes from Bath Spa University, UK invites discussion with University of Warsaw colleagues on relationships between critical pedagogical approaches towards inclusive education for the public good and avoiding deterministic notions of digital education. Sarah will discuss articles from the Springer Postdigital Science and Education journal and share opportunities for co-publication.