Document Type
Article
Source of Publication
Learning, Media and Technology
Publication Date
1-1-2023
Abstract
This study uses a sociomaterial critical posthuman paradigm to examine possibilities, constraints, and tensions that come into view in the ‘intra-action’ between teachers and a digital environment. It considers how teacher subjectivities may be reimagined in new digitised visuospatial environments. This qualitative study utilises reflective interviews with things to illuminate general issues of subjectivities in human/digital contexts in a newly adopted Virtual Learning Environment (VLE) at a university in the Middle East. The interviews reveal several diffractions from the new entanglement created by introducing the new VLE. This highlights what it means to be a higher education educator in the digital age. This study contributes to critical research on digital assemblages to counteract the wholly positivist and non-problematized discourse of instrumentalization of technology use in education that often accompanies them. It also creates more openings for discussing posthuman subjectivities in sociomaterial contexts.
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Publisher
Informa UK Limited
Disciplines
Education
Keywords
digital education, education, Posthuman, sociomaterial, teacher subjectivities
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Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
Recommended Citation
Calderwood, Sarah Julia, "An exploration of human and platform intra-actions in a digital teaching and learning environment" (2023). All Works. 6196.
https://zuscholars.zu.ac.ae/works/6196
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Open Access Type
Hybrid: This publication is openly available in a subscription-based journal/series