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73.017 - Educational States of Suspension: Tinkering and Hacking

Mon, April 20, 12:25 to 1:55pm, Hyatt, Floor: West Tower - Gold Level, New Orleans

Session Type: Symposium

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This symposium will propose and explore two ways in which the root meaning of school --that is to be found in the Greek scholé, and that can be translated as “free time”, a time disconnected from the busy time of home and the oikos (Masschelein & Simons, 2013)—could be used to subvert the constraints embedded in the dominating learning paradigm and offer an alternative educational logic. These two approaches we term tinkering and hacking, and share the goal of suspending some of the founding assumptions of contemporary education in particular ways, by returning these governing principles to the commonwealth and redefining the democratic possibilities of schooling.

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