'Vigilant Hospitality': The Online Imperative and Teaching Cultural Studies


Autoria(s): Thwaites, Tony
Contribuinte(s)

K. Maton

H. K. Wright

Data(s)

01/12/2002

Resumo

Information technology (IT) sees information as a fluid, to be stored, regulated and exchanged. This is a profoundly economic model, whose dreams are those of the marketplace – and now, university managers. But no teacher, of course, holds that teaching can be reduced to the movement of information from one point to another. Teaching is never quite absorbed into the models of IT. Where they meet, we do not have the utopia of the virtual classroom, at last freed from the strictures of timetables and the face-to-face; we have, rather, the grinding of two radically irreducible models. This has nothing to do with Luddism; on the contrary, it is the value and necessity of IT for us at present, as teachers. At a time when the tertiary sector’s massive investment in IT is motivated in part by its own dream of the teacherless classroom, one of the pressing tasks for us may be simply to argue as rigorously as we can the structural necessity of our own position as teachers, without nostalgia or humanist sentimentality.

Identificador

http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:63838/thwaites_vigilant.pdf

http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:63838

Idioma(s)

eng

Publicador

Sage Publications

Palavras-Chave #cultural studies #information #information technology #Lacan #pedagogy #transference #Zizek #C1 #751001 Languages and literature #420202 Australian and New Zealand
Tipo

Journal Article