Nostalgic stories in academic imaginaries of the digital
3 October 2024
Wednesday 30 October at 2pm
CRADLE Seminar Series 2024: Seminar #8
In this seminar we hear from CRADLE Fellowship holder Dr Ros Black. In her Fellowship project Ros investigated how collective imaginaries shape the recent development of online teaching. She also examined their influence on its future development and the role of senior academics. We are delighted that Ros will share her research outcomes and insights with us
- When: Wednesday 30 October 2024
- Time: 2pm – 3.30pm (AEDT)
- Where: Online or at Deakin Downtown
- Cost: This is a free event
Digital tools and technologies have become integral to current teaching practices in higher education. Their development and implementation is also imbued with stories of the future. With the advent of artificial intelligence the digital is either associated with the promise of more creative, responsive and accessible pedagogies and the better development of graduates’ future-oriented skills and employability, or with concerns about what dystopian outcomes might emerge from a future university dominated by technology.
Ros asked senior academics in Australia and the United Kingdom about how they envisage the future of the digital in higher education as part of her CRADLE Fellowship research project. A strong story emerged of nostalgia and of lost real or imagined academic pasts. Drawing on selected data from that project this seminar reflects on what nostalgic stories of the academy may be shaping our orientation to the digital and what these stories may mean, both for the senior academics who narrate them and for the sector as a whole.
Join us for this compelling and topical seminar online or at Deakin Downtown
About Ros Black
Rosalyn (Ros) Black is Senior Lecturer in Education at Deakin University and a recent CRADLE Fellow. Her research interests meet at the intersection of the sociologies of education, higher education and youth. They include the nature and implications of educational imaginaries within schooling and higher education; the changing nature of academic identity, labour and communities; and imagined youth futures in critical and precarious times and places.
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