WORKING WITH/IN THE TENSIONS: EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGY AS FEMINIZED CRAFTWORK
This paper argues that the literature of feminized craftwork offers insights for understanding educational technology as a tension-negotiating practice through which we might learn to see and experience alternate possibilities for the field of educational technology. Post-human and socio-materialist...
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| description | This paper argues that the literature of feminized craftwork offers insights for understanding educational technology as a tension-negotiating practice through which we might learn to see and experience alternate possibilities for the field of educational technology. Post-human and socio-materialist education technology researchers have focused on learner usage of existing objects and environments, while educational technologists have emphasized the collaborative and affective labour involved in their work. These realities have sustained boundaries and silences between different theorybased and practice-based forms of educational technology knowledge. Practices from feminized craftwork, including enacting agency, engaging in collaboration, and reworking possibilities, offer an alternative approach that involves actively engaging with the tensions in between essentialistinstrumentalist, object-affect, and individual-collaborative binaries. Practice-based examples of ‘Phonar,’ ‘Domains of One’s Own’ and ‘FemEdTech quilt’ are used to illustrate feminized practice in action, and the tensions of educational technology that require negotiation. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-0ec5b4fd35b34d239a7e346180d902a82024-02-03T10:48:11ZengDigital Culture & Education (DCE)Digital Culture & Education1836-83012022-10-01144118WORKING WITH/IN THE TENSIONS: EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGY AS FEMINIZED CRAFTWORKTanya Elias0University of Calgary, Calgary, CanadaThis paper argues that the literature of feminized craftwork offers insights for understanding educational technology as a tension-negotiating practice through which we might learn to see and experience alternate possibilities for the field of educational technology. Post-human and socio-materialist education technology researchers have focused on learner usage of existing objects and environments, while educational technologists have emphasized the collaborative and affective labour involved in their work. These realities have sustained boundaries and silences between different theorybased and practice-based forms of educational technology knowledge. Practices from feminized craftwork, including enacting agency, engaging in collaboration, and reworking possibilities, offer an alternative approach that involves actively engaging with the tensions in between essentialistinstrumentalist, object-affect, and individual-collaborative binaries. Practice-based examples of ‘Phonar,’ ‘Domains of One’s Own’ and ‘FemEdTech quilt’ are used to illustrate feminized practice in action, and the tensions of educational technology that require negotiation.https://www.digitalcultureandeducation.com/volume-14-4-papers/working-within-the-tensions-educational-technology-as-feminized-craftworkeducational technologyintra-activityfeminized craftworksociomaterialism |
| spellingShingle | Tanya Elias WORKING WITH/IN THE TENSIONS: EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGY AS FEMINIZED CRAFTWORK Digital Culture & Education educational technology intra-activity feminized craftwork sociomaterialism |
| title | WORKING WITH/IN THE TENSIONS: EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGY AS FEMINIZED CRAFTWORK |
| title_full | WORKING WITH/IN THE TENSIONS: EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGY AS FEMINIZED CRAFTWORK |
| title_fullStr | WORKING WITH/IN THE TENSIONS: EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGY AS FEMINIZED CRAFTWORK |
| title_full_unstemmed | WORKING WITH/IN THE TENSIONS: EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGY AS FEMINIZED CRAFTWORK |
| title_short | WORKING WITH/IN THE TENSIONS: EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGY AS FEMINIZED CRAFTWORK |
| title_sort | working with in the tensions educational technology as feminized craftwork |
| topic | educational technology intra-activity feminized craftwork sociomaterialism |
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