Educational Philosophy and Theory 50 (1):49-60 (2018)
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In the age of web 2.0, the university is constantly challenged to re-adapt
its ‘old-fashioned’ pedagogies to the new possibilities opened up by digital
technologies. This article proposes a rethinking of the relation between
university and (digital) technologies by focusing not on how technologies
function in the university, but on their constituting a meta-condition for
the existence of the university pedagogy of inquiry. Following Ivan Illich’s
idea that textual technologies played a crucial role in the inception of the
university, we will first show the structural similarities between university
thinking and the text as a profanation of the book. Secondly, we describe
university thinking as a type of critical thinking based on the materiality
of the text-on-the-page, explaining why the text has been at the centre of
university pedagogy since the beginning. In the third part, we show how
Illich came to see the end of the culture of the text as a challenge for the
university, by describing the new features of the text-as-code incompatible
with the idea of reading as study. Finally, we challenge this pessimistic
reading of Illich’s and end with a call for a profanatory pedagogy of digital
technologies that could mirror the revolutionary thinking behind the
mediaeval invention of the text.
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Keywords | university text screen Ivan Illich profanation digital |
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Reprint years | 2017, 2018 |
DOI | 10.1080/00131857.2017.1323624 |
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