Imagining How to Go On Among Educational Practices in a Time of Crisis

Anders Buch*, Iben Sandal Stjerne

*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

How are teachers’ and educators’ situated activities guided, restrained, and eventually determined as they unfold in everyday practice? How do teachers plan and execute their teaching, and how do they, for instance, make decisions about (not) using digital technologies? How can their (professional) course of action be understood? To answer these questions, the chapter explores the role played by imagination in situated educational practices. Paying attention to the role of imagination and how actors anticipate future events and circumstances by deliberating possible courses of action in situated practice is crucial to understanding how practices are enacted and how activity is eventually played out. Imagination thus becomes an important element in understanding both the continuity and change in the flow of activity as actors deliberate on how to go on in appropriate ways to achieve their goals and objectives. The discussion revolves around a problematic situation of university teaching encountered by one of the authors of the chapter during the Covid-19 pandemic lockdowns.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationFraming Futures in Post-digital Education : Critical Concepts for Data-driven Practices
EditorsAnders Buch, Ylva Lindberg, Teresa Cerratto Pargman
PublisherSpringer
Publication date2024
Pages3-19
Chapter1
ISBN (Print)978-3-031-58621-7
ISBN (Electronic)978-3-031-58622-4
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2024
SeriesPostdigital Science and Education
ISSN2662-5334

Keywords

  • Higher education
  • Imagination
  • Imaginary practices
  • Practice theory
  • Pragmatism
  • Covid-19
  • Enactment
  • Normativity
  • Postidigital activity

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