Chantelle's E-learning and Digital Cultures site » lifelong learning http://edc13.education.ed.ac.uk/chantellem part of the MSc in E-learning at the University of Edinburgh Wed, 15 May 2013 13:32:14 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 The end of lifelong learning: a post-human condition by Edwards http://edc13.education.ed.ac.uk/chantellem/2013/03/20/the-end-of-lifelong-learning-a-post-human-condition-by-edwards/ http://edc13.education.ed.ac.uk/chantellem/2013/03/20/the-end-of-lifelong-learning-a-post-human-condition-by-edwards/#comments Wed, 20 Mar 2013 01:59:28 +0000 cmeckenstock http://edc13.education.ed.ac.uk/chantellem/?p=635 This is enlightening.

Edwards provided a number of binaries that illustrate the epistemological-ontological separation.(Edwards, 2010: 8)

epistemology – ontology
meaning – matter
significance – substance
subject – object
theory – practice
knowing – becoming
apparent- real
reflecting – intervening
thinking – doing
representing – experimenting

This sums up his description of a post-human education which I would like to consider further this week:

“Here a post-human condition could position responsible experimentation as a gathering of the human and non-human to establish matters of concern…it is not the human subject who learns through experimenting rather than representing, but the thing that is gathered which is an enactment of human and non-human elements.There is a decentring of the knowing/learning human subject within educational practices.”(Edwards, 2010: 13)

Reference:

Edwards, R. (2010). The end of lifelong learning: A post-human condition? Studies in the Education of Adults, vol 42, no 1, 5-17.

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