A Nomadic Pedagogy about Technology : Teaching the Ongoing Process of Becoming Ethnotechnologically Literate

John R Dakers

ISBN 10: 9004536981 / ISBN 13: 9789004536982

Published by Brill Nov 2022, 2022

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Neuware - This book considers, in detail, the urgent need for a new, radical nomadic pedagogy, that enables young people to engage in the ongoing process of becoming ethnotechnologically literate, enabling them to express their own thinking on alternative, possible sustainable technological futures.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: A Nomadic Pedagogy about Technology : Teaching the Ongoing Process of Becoming Ethnotechnologically Literate
• Publisher: Brill Nov 2022
• Publication Date: 2022
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9004536981
• ISBN 13: 9789004536982
• Binding: Taschenbuch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 234W x 155H x 13D millimeters 234 millimeters width by 155 millimeters height by 13 millimeters depth
• Weight: 295 grams

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Synopsis

Although technology education is in desperate need of reform, the new refuses to be born. Despite the introduction of technological literacy, the evolving merger with science, mathematics and engineering (STEM), and even a proposed merger between STEM and the arts (STEAM), nothing has changed. The subject continues to be a craft-based, vocationally orientated subject.

Human beings have always had a relationship with technology, but never before has the progression of technological development had such an impact on the environment, one which has led to the birth of the Anthropocene. This poses the greatest existential threat ever known to the future of human existence.

Those in power continue to turn a blind eye to this threat. Moreover, technology education today does not reflect issues relating to our technologically textured lifeworld. Given that it is the young who will inherit this potentially dystopic future, they must be given a voice, one in which they can reimagine their futures in a sustainable way. This book explores the development of ethnotechnological literacy, as delivered by a radical new nomadic pedagogy inspired by the philosophy of Deleuze and Guattari; one that can enable these voices to be expressed and more importantly, to be heard.

About the Author

John R. Dakers is a researcher affiliated with TU Delft university. He has published books and articles on the concept of technological literacy, including Defining Technological Literacy and New Frontiers on Technological Literacy (2014).