The Centre for Language, Literacy and Diversity

Getting to 'New': Beyond a Pedagogy of the Impressed?

28th November 2002

Presented by Colin Lankshear

DATE:	Thursday 28th November 2002
TIME:	4.00pm to 6.00pm
VENUE:	B301, QUT Kelvin Grove Campus

The educational world is awash with talk of 'the new': new learning, new literacies, new basics, new technologies. With particular reference to the Australian scene, this seminar will look at some aspects of current 'newspeak'. It will consider some of the potential risks involved when educators who are eager for strategies to address wider social, economic and cultural changes they may not feel especially knowledgeable about are presented with blueprints for new curricular and pedagogical directions. Some implications of 'new' agendas for teacher education will be identified on the basis of ideas and arguments considered in the body of the paper.

Colin Lankshear currently spends most of his time as a freelance educational researcher and writer based in Mexico. He is also a part time Professorial Research Fellow at the University of Ballarat, where he is involved in helping develop the School of Education's research effort. His current interests include looking at some of the interstices between electronic communications and information technologies and social practices, education and literacy, the economics of attention, educational epistemology, and personal modes of being. Currently co-authoring a "Handbook of Teacher Research" for Open University Press, some of his recent publications are "Teachers and Technoliteracy", "Maneras de Ver", "El Nuevo Orden Laboral", "Cyber Spaces/Social Spaces: Culture Conflict in Computerized Classrooms", and "New Literacies: Changing Knowledge in the Classroom" (in press). He also has two co-edited volumes on Critical Theory currently in press and is editing a book series on new literacies and digital epistemologies. In 2003 he will return to Nicaragua to complete fieldwork on a longitudinal study of change and stasis in a peasant community.

All welcome, no cost.

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For more information or to RSVP, please contact jd.ryan@qut.edu.au or phone 3864 3498.

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