Abstract

SEFTON-GREEN, Julian. Towards a cultural history of digital autodidacticism: changing cultural narratives of education. Perspectiva [online]. 2019, vol.37, n.1, pp.125-139.  Epub July 19, 2019. ISSN 2175-795X.  https://doi.org/10.5007/2175-795x.2019.e52964.

The essay argues that the various new imaginaries of the connected, creative, autonomous, coding, motivated and making digital learner have their roots in diverse and older visions of a different kind education system (especially the craft learner working in communities of practice) than that promulgated by the human-capital inspired neoliberal governmentalised States in the world today. Tracing the histories of the older imaginaries in a cultural history of autodidacticism I examine how they become incorporated by, and thus recalibrate competing visions of the “new learner of tomorrow”.

Keywords : Auto-didacticism; Digital; Learning.

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