The Odyssey of Pedagogies of Technoscientific Literacies
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The Odyssey of Pedagogies of Technoscientific Literacies Greta Goetz 1 Accepted: 1 September 2020/ # Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Abstract A current pandemic which has pushed much work online has revealed a lack of literacies in information security, surveillance capitalism, and the unresolved problems of algorithms and control (e.g., Zuboff, Berners-Lee). Yet there is a decades-old tradition of pedagogies that address the complex interactions of the interdisciplinary technoscientific world (Morin, G. Bateson, Rheingold, Dewey, Freire, Cooper) and the need for ethical approaches (Quéau, Markauskaite and Goodyear, Haidt, Gardner). Some of them emerged from the field of cybernetics (Morin, N. Bateson). Recent events show the need for further popularization of digital literacy, interdisciplinary approaches, intellectual and creative rigor, questions of service and liberty, and dialog on what constitutes ‘good’ professional praxis. This paper considers the always unfinished work of pedagogy to ‘rise up’ above names—here, of humanist technoscience—to consider what belonging together means. Through a largely hermeneutic approach, the problem of the technoscientific and its history in cybernetics is remembered in such a way as to remind us of features of our shared creative odyssey towards ‘something of greater significance’ (Dewey) and to show that uncritically downloading the latest app or giving up on the question of taking professional care is for the lotus-eaters. Keywords Critical pedagogy . Digital literacy . Cybernetics . The two cultures .
Interdisciplinary studies . Service and liberty A recent shift to more work being done online has revealed a dearth of technoscientific literacy and related dialog. At stake are questions not just of liberty and productivity but also of robust intellectual discourse, and individual and collective creative agency. Technology remains a problem as much as an aid.
* Greta Goetz [email protected]; [email protected]
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Faculty of Philology, University of Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia
Postdigital Science and Education
The word technoscience is used to describe this problem, as per Edgar Morin’s definition to indicate where machine, science, and technique are intertwined, productive of both elucidation and knowledge as well as ignorance and blindness (Morin 2008/2004: 171). Part of the difficulty in addressing current issues surrounding digital technology is due to its roots in cybernetics and resulting transdisciplinary nature. For example, software and platforms are as much about tech as they are about psychology and emotions (the dopamine of likes), social needs (networking), and culture (group identity, symbols, and the cult of consumption). It is old news for some but the culture industry explained by Adorno and Horkheimer (1989/1944) as the easy pleasures of capitalism, rendering people content and docile, has become even more pernicious. This is to say that the ways in which it is becoming embedded in our lives require continued reflection. The process by
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