Pedagogy of the Hustle: A Technological Analysis of Finitude

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Abstract

The present paper develops a pedagogy that centres the finitude of the human, as approximated by its lived technological experiences. Prominent pedagogies are subjected to a tripartite methodology of methodological skepticism, argument, and dialectic to determine whether they are consistent with these experiences. Then, finitude is examined to discern a method of sense-making from the lens of the individual. It is found that focusing on the finitude of the technological human suggests a shift in pedagogical development away from metaphysical suppositions that divorce themselves from lived technological experience and toward pragmatic considerations which, it is argued, more accurately reflect the lived technological experience. A pedagogical framework is then furnished that attempts to adequately reflect the human's lived technological experience.

Author

• Noah Khan, University of Toronto
  Presenting Author