Embodied Epistemologies and Methodologies in the Digital/New Media Curriculum

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

The rise of digital and new media technologies in education not only brings us new ways of working with curriculum, but also challenges us to take the affordances, materialities, and potentialities of digital technologies seriously and deliberate on their profound epistemological and methodological significances.

There are certain difficulties in envisioning the connections between virtual world enabled by technology and embodied meaning making, which is usually manifested in face-to-face environments. Working with such tensions and difficulties, we explore ways that embodiment and embodied learning with technology are made possible. We engage new media studies, autoethnography, visual studies, and cultural studies in addressing the conceptual and methodological implications of the visual and digital turn of curriculum studies.

Sub Unit

• Division B - Curriculum Studies / Section 6: Digital Technologies, Gaming, and Posthumanism

Chair

• Rick J. Voithofer, The Ohio State University

Papers

• Technology, Learning, and the Evolution of Touch - Rick J. Voithofer, The Ohio State University

• Toward a Theory of Digital Embodiment: Embodied Curriculum in Human and Computer Interaction - Mei W. Hoyt, University of North Texas

• Embodied Research Through Avatars: Understanding Avatar-Making as Self-Making Through Mixed-Reality Embodiment - Christine Liao, University of North Carolina - Wilmington; Karen Keifer-Boyd

• Events of Translation: Digital Devices, Teachers, and Students as Networked in Material and Embodied Processes of Reciprocal Pedagogy - Mary Elizabeth Meier, Mercyhurst University

• Art Education Students’ Responses to 3-D Embodied Learning Environments: New Curricula, Pedagogy, and Challenges in a Virtual Age - Lilly Lu, Northern Illinois University

Discussant

• Walter S. Gershon, Kent State University