The Sublation of Digital Education

In this paper, I argue that teachers’ efforts to defend education against reactionary forms of digitalization and from complete automation should be supported by progressives. At the same time, efforts aimed at creatively transforming or sublating digitalization in non-deterministic ways to forge ne...

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Published inPostdigital science and education Vol. 2; no. 2; pp. 365 - 379
Main Author Malott, Curry
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Cham Springer International Publishing 01.04.2020
Springer Nature B.V
Subjects
Algorithms
Anthropocentrism
Automation
Capitalism
Digital technology
Education
Education policy
Educational Change
Educational Philosophy
Educational Policy
Educational Researchers
Educational Technology
Ideology
Intention
Labor
Machinery
Original Articles
Pedagogy
Productivity
Public Opinion
Social control
Social justice
Social Systems
Teachers
Technology and Digital Education
Trends
Workers
Digitalization
Education
Sublation
Marx
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Summary:In this paper, I argue that teachers’ efforts to defend education against reactionary forms of digitalization and from complete automation should be supported by progressives. At the same time, efforts aimed at creatively transforming or sublating digitalization in non-deterministic ways to forge new pedagogical projects should also be enthusiastically engaged. Drawing on Marx’s conception of sublation is crucial since it represents the process through which an aspect of something is overcome while other aspects of it are preserved in an altered form. Because sublation occurs both within entities as they develop and out of entities as they are negated, I contend that sublating digitized education both within capitalism and beyond capitalism should be pursued simultaneously.
ISSN:2524-485X
2524-4868
DOI:10.1007/s42438-019-00083-6