Paper presented to the ESF workshop 'Visual communication in contemporary European societies: Shaping identities, citizenship, communities and inclusion strategies. University of Bologna (Italy), Alma Mater Studiorum Forli, 2-3 April 2011.
1. Ocularcentring techniques in (e-)education Presentation to the ESF Workshop, Visual communication in contemporary European societies: Shaping identities, citizenship, communities, inclusion strategies. University of Bologna, Forlì (Italy), 3 April 2011 Ernst D. Thoutenhoofd This slideshow is publicly available at slideshare.net/ernstt What technological objects teach us about learning without teaching
2. I love to learn but I hate to be taught | Churchill
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10. There is no such stuff as information or knowledge. They are epistemes that connect the materiality of documents and data to the ideas of education and cumulative progress. Cf Bernd Frohmann (2004) Deflating information, UTP.
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15. But object-picture relations were used much earlier to teach ideas . Cf. Simon Stevin (1584-1620) and his Beghinselen der weeghconst (1586).
18. Some of these visual actors have become constants (such as diagrams, maps and clocks) and must be learned.
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23. Schooling reflects similar principles of (self-)control through monitoring . Schooling foregrounds monitoring instruments such as tests, exams, experiments, observation schemes and registers.
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35. Monitoring systems shape monitoring, learning and understanding, wellbeing, selfregulation and inclusion.
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37. The current concept of mass-education and its literacy model date from the industrial revolution.
38. It may be time to revise our vision of education. The school (school plate) | Cornelis Jetses ca 1910.
39. We might reorganise truly inclusive education around those contemporary competences and technologies that can accellerate, distribute and selforganise many forms of learning. We can take school teaching out of learning.
41. Further reading Bijker, Wiebe (1995) Of bicyles, bakelites and bulbs, MIT Press Fenwick, Tara and Richard Edwards (2010) Actor-network theory in education, Routledge. Foucault, Michel (1977) Discipline and punish: The birth of the prison, Pantheon Books. Frohmann , Bernd(2004) Deflating information, Toronto University Press. Harman, Graham (2009) Prince of networks: Bruno Latour and metaphysics , Re-press. Jay, Martin (1994) Downcast eyes: the denigration of vision in twentieth-century French thought, University of California Press. Latour, Bruno (1991) We have never been modern , MIT Press. Levin, David M. (ed. 1993) Modernity and the hegemony of vision, University of California Press. Mol, Annemarie (2002) The body multiple: Ontology in medical practice, Duke University Press. Sørensen, Estrid (2009) The materiality of learning, Cambridge University Press.
Notas do Editor
Anton Beeke’s Human Alphabet (1970).
Latour claims in We have never been modern (1991) that we must rework our thinking to conceive of a "Parliament of Things" wherein natural phenomena , social phenomena and the discourse about them are not seen as separate objects to be studied by specialists , but as hybrids made and scrutinized by the public interaction of people, things and concepts. [Wikipedia]
For the visual orientation of the Dutch 17 th Century, see e.g. Svetlana Alpers’ The art of describing.
Introduce the concept of self-organising learning.
Point to the deliberate construction of the ‘native’ sign language user.