Postdigital Eco-Pedagogies Continued

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

This symposium conceptualizes ecopedagogies (Freirean-inspired or otherwise) as forms of educational innovation and critique that emerge from, negotiate, debate, produce, resist, and/or overcome the shifting and expansive postdigital ecosystems of humans, machines, nonhuman animals, objects, and so on. New postdigital ecosystems are determined by a range of new bioinformational reconfigurations in areas including ontological hierarchies and capitalism, imperialism, and settler-colonialism. Postdigital ecopedagogies name a condition, a question, and a call for experimentation that link pedagogical research and practice to challenges of our pandemic Anthropocene moment. Papers in this symposium acknowledge and address specific conceptualizations of our contemporary postdigital ecosystems—where they have been in the past, what they entail now, and where they might go in the future.

Sub Unit

• SIG-Paulo Freire

Chair

• Michael Jopling, University of Brighton

Papers

• Postdigital Eco-Pedagogies: Past, Present, Future - Petar Jandric, Polytechnic of Zagreb; Derek R. Ford, DePauw University

• Toward Second-Wave Architectural Eco-Pedagogies: The Continuing Need for Revolutionary Praxes in Built Environment Education - James Brown

• Malfunctioning Right in Our Backyards or The Strangeness of Ecological Awareness - Jesse Bazzul, University of Regina; Valerie Triggs, University of Regina

• Eco-Pedagogy Is the Pedagogy Against Capital: Need for a Radical Rupturing of the Dehumanized Facade Beyond Concessionary Liberal Politics - Ravi Kumar, South Asian University

• Greta's Choice - Juha Suoranta, University of Tampere

Discussant

• Greg William Misiaszek, Beijing Normal University