Towards a cultural history of digital autodidacticism: changing cultural narratives of education

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DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5007/2175-795X.2019.e52964

Abstract

The essay argues that the various new imaginaries of the connected, creative, autonomous, coding, motivated and making digital learner have their roots in diverse and older visions of a different kind education system (especially the craft learner working in communities of practice) than that promulgated by the human-capital inspired neoliberal governmentalised States in the world today. Tracing the histories of the older imaginaries in a cultural history of autodidacticism I examine how they become incorporated by, and thus recalibrate competing visions of the “new learner of tomorrow”.

Author Biography

Julian Sefton-Green, Universidade Deakin, Austrália

Professor de Educação para Novas Mídias, Escola de Educação, Deakin, Austrália

Published

2019-04-23

How to Cite

Sefton-Green, J. (2019). Towards a cultural history of digital autodidacticism: changing cultural narratives of education. Perspectiva, 37(1), 125–139. https://doi.org/10.5007/2175-795X.2019.e52964

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Section

Dossiê Imagens, Mídias e Práticas Corporais