Felicitas Macgilchrist
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 382890 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Felicitas Macgilchrist |
| PRENOMES | Felicitas |
| SOBRENOME | Macgilchrist |
| ASSINATURA | MACGILCHRIST F |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Leibniz Institute for Educational Media | Georg Eckert Institute |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2828-4127 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 57 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 94 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 55 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 2 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2010 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 6 |
Hijacking the Digital Backlash in Education
This paper is a continuation of a panel discussion ‘The Digital Backlash in Education: Critical and Postdigital Perspectives’ Footnote 1 where Sarah Hayes, Petar Jandrić, Felicitas Macgilchrist, and Neil Selwyn reflected on the current political pushback against digital technologies in schools. The panel was moderated by Ingrid Forsler and Saga Hansén, who also initiated this conversation to follow up on some of the themes raised in the discussio…
Digital infrastructures for education
As the private sector shapes decisions around educational technology, policymaking and classroom practices, research has identified a democratic deficit in the digital platforms and infrastructures for education. Much research has, however, focused on private-sector actors. This article explores the development of Germany’s digital networked infrastructure for education ( Mein Bildungsraum ), a 600-million-EUR public initiative. The article inves…
Retooling the tools of critical reflection
This paper describes a fundamental ambivalence in the ‘tools’ deployed in education. These aim to support critical reflection, yet undermine criticality by reproducing the dominant discourse which they aim to critique. This ambivalence is illustrated with materials from high-school economics textbooks. Drawing on theories of hegemony and subjectivation, and qualitative analysis of textbooks, the paper identifies a tension between student tasks th…
Digitalität und Unterrichtsalltag. Ethnografische Fallstudien zur Wartung des Wandels
Der Wandel von Unterricht und Schule in einer digitalen Welt ist ein gegenwärtig immer mehr beachtetes Thema. In der ethnografischen Studie wird auf Basis von Beobachtungen zu vielen kleinen Begebenheiten, Momenten und Ereignissen im Alltag von Unterricht und Schule sowie anhand der in Interviews mit Lehrkräften und Schüler*innen entfalteten Reflexionen die These von der „Wartung des Wandels“ entfaltet. Anschaulich und plastisch beschrieben wird,…
Speculative Practicescapes of Learning Design and Dreaming
This article addresses a serious issue that besets learning design: its over-reliance on frameworks that promise particular outcomes for individual learners that accord with pre-defined metrics. This is partly a function of the nature of learning design and development itself which is commonly seen as outcome-oriented activity that should benefit individual learners in specific ways. An alternative approach is adopted here which calls attention t…
Future challenges for critical research on educational technologies
2025 has been a significant year for critical research on educational technologies. In our last collective editorial, the past and present editors of Learning, Media and Technology looked back over
Looking back and looking forward
Anniversaries of all kinds are good opportunities to look back and reflect, as well as to look forward to the future. Learning, Media and Technology is now 20 years old, but it also has a longer hi
Knowledge infrastructure crisis
The production and circulation of knowledge in education increasingly depends on large-scale digital infrastructures. In this article we provide a critical review of the transformation of the contemporary ‘knowledge infrastructures’ underpinning knowledge production and reproduction in education. Contributing to the Special Issue on ‘knowledge crises’ in education, we conceive of recent and ongoing developments in the digitalisation and dataficat…
Who said only military officers can deal with uncertainty? On the importance of uncertainty in edtech data visualisations
AI-powered predictive systems have high margins of error. However, data visualisations of algorithmic systems in education and other social fields tend to visualise certainty, thus invisibilising the underlying approximations and uncertainties of the algorithmic systems and the social settings in which these systems operate. This paper draws on a critical speculative approach to first analyse data visualisations from predictive analytics platform…
Designing Postdigital Futures
Designing technology for education is never only a problem-solving practice. It is always already about creating spaces for inherently political and affective sociotechnical future relations (Light and Akama 2014 ). These can point towards ‘big futures’, i.e. radical ruptures and epochal change, or ‘little futures’, emergent processes in mundane, everyday practices (Michael 2017 ; Pink et al. 2022 ). Beginning with these assumptions, this comment…
Critique Needs Community
Design Beyond Design Thinking
How and by whom are our postdigital futures designed? Can educational futures be designed at all, given their inherent uncertainty? How do we anticipate design to reconfigure our social worlds
Near future academic publishing – a speculative social science fiction experiment
Learning, Media and Technology turns 20 years old in 2025 (or 50 if you count its former lives as the Journal of Educational Television from 1975 to 1995, and as the Journal of Educational Media fr
Challenging the inequitable impacts of edtech
New forms of bias, injustice, discrimination and inequality have become harmful characteristics of contemporary digital landscapes.In 1996, Batya Friedman and Helen Nissenbaum developed a framework for identifying bias in computer systems.From their analysis of computer systems, they proposed three categories of bias: 'Preexisting bias has its roots in social institutions, practices and attitudes' (Friedman and Nissenbaum 1996, 332).This exists w…
Against contextlessness in Learning, Media and Technology
Why do so many educational technologies not work as imagined or intended? The articles in this issue of Learning, Media and Technology all focus, in various ways, on how digital technologies are en
Hoping for community in a technologically decelerated world - A critical utopian approach
Against the backdrop of technological acceleration during the Covid-19 pandemic, this paper addresses how educational practitioners’ hopes articulate a critique of the present and simultaneously give voice to (im)possible futures. Drawing on Bloch's "principle of hope" (1995), Appadurai's "traces of future" (2021) and Levitas’ "utopia as method" (2013), we utilize a critical utopian approach inspired by Muñoz (2009). We interviewed educational pr…
Schule und Unterricht im digitalen Wandel. Ansätze und Erträge rekonstruktiver Forschung
Der Band lotet Perspektiven einer rekonstruktiv-sinnverstehenden Forschung für die Untersuchung von Schule und Unterricht im digitalen Wandel aus. Es werden vier empirische Studien vorgestellt und ihre Befunde theoretisch und methodisch eingeordnet. Die Studien interessieren sich für die Veränderungen wie auch die Stabilität von Praktiken im Unterricht, wenn digitale Medien genutzt werden. Und sie untersuchen, wie Schüler:innen und Lehrkräfte die…
From Automation to Symmation
The work of automation in education is not automatic but needs to be ‘done’. Grounded in an ethnographic study which followed a Grade 9/10 class through their daily activities in a ‘regular’ high school for a year, this paper asks how automation is enacted by students and teachers, and what these practices imply for forms of knowledge and relationality. Inspired by feminist technoscience, and drawing on recent work on everyday automation, the pap…
Re-examining AI, automation and datafication in education
Google_Suche‘
Google_Suche': Suche als soziale Praxis in Unterricht und Schule "Google mal" war eine Ansage, die wir in einer einjhrigen Ethnographie einer Gesamtschulklasse immer wieder in unterschiedlichen Settings gehrt haben.Zu Beginn haben wir ihr keine Aufmerksamkeit geschenkt.Suche' -also ein online mittels einer Suchmaschine nach Informationen Suchen -ereignet sich oft beilufig; fr die Beobachter*innen im Klassenzimmer ist Suche' zudem oft vor allem in…
Diskurs der Digitalität und Pädagogik
Speculative Social Science Fiction of Digitalization in Higher Education
Digitalization and datafication are reshaping roles and practices in higher education. The Covid-19 pandemic has accelerated this process through the massive increase in the use of educational technology (EdTech) (Teräs et al. 2020). As a part of this development, higher education is becoming increasingly data driven. Simultaneously, attempts to predict and prepare for future scenarios in education are driven by intergovernmental organization rep…
Reading internationally
Reading internationally: If citing is a political practice, who are we reading and who are we citing
Lernkultur im digitalen Wandel. Methodologische Weichenstellungen einer ethnographischen Fallstudie
Interferenzen in digitalen Praktiken der Bereitstellung von unterrichtlichen Aufgaben
In diesem Beitrag werden Praktiken im Zusammenhang mit dem Bereitstellen von unterrichtlichen Aufgaben über eine Schulplattform in einer Lerngruppe einer Gesamtschule während der Covid 19-Pandemie untersucht. Die Aufgaben über die Plattform zu prozessieren, wurde im Distanzlernen während der zeitweiligen Schulschließungen eingeführt und im Präsenzunterricht anschließend beibehalten. An ethnographischem Datenmaterial wird aus einer praxistheoretis…
Towards a linguistics of news production
Framing the news
This article is an ethnographic case study of a senior business reporter as he discovers, writes, and reflects on a news story. We ‘‘follow the story’’ from its entry in the newsroom through the review process during a story meeting and the writing process up to the point the story is filed for copy editing. Drawing on ethnographic data, this article sheds light on how a news story about Russian gas exports to France is discursively constructed. …
Fissures in the discourse-scape
This article explores one challenge facing critical discourse studies (CDS) in today’s mediatised world: the ontological and epistemological assumptions which prompt studies to analyse the construction of social orders (such as right-wing, racist or neoliberal orders) rather than the fissures and dislocations of these social orders. The former foregrounds stability, and the latter foregrounds instability. In this article, I first sketch postfound…
Dashboard stories
In this paper, we explore how the development and affordances of predictive analytics may impact how teachers and other educational actors think about and teach students and, more broadly, how society understands education. Our particular focus is on the data dashboards of learning support systems which are based on Machine Learning (ML). While previous research has focused on how these systems produce credible knowledge, we explore here how they…
When discourse analysts tell stories
Critical discourse analysts are being pulled in two directions. On one side, in the age of validity, inter-rater reliability and evidence-based research, it can seem subversive when researchers 'tell stories' (rather than 'write reports', 'produce findings' or 'demonstrate effectiveness'). On the other side, public relations departments encourage researchers to use 'storytelling' techniques to engage public audiences. In this paper, I draw on soc…
Blogs, genes and immigration
This article explores the contribution of the concept of ‘minimal politics’ to understanding contemporary blogging. Politics is often used to refer only to state actions or to very rare ruptures to existing formations; citizens’ and social media are often only considered successful if they influence political leaders or lead to radical social change. The perspective adopted in this article, drawing on theories of agonistic democracy and hegemony,…
Who said only military officers can deal with uncertainty? On the importance of uncertainty in edtech data visualisations
AI-powered predictive systems have high margins of error. However, data visualisations of algorithmic systems in education and other social fields tend to visualise certainty, thus invisibilising the underlying approximations and uncertainties of the algorithmic systems and the social settings in which these systems operate. This paper draws on a critical speculative approach to first analyse data visualisations from predictive analytics platform…
Memory practices and colonial discourse
How self-evident is a colonial rationality today? This paper begins by tracing a ‘text trajectory’ about nineteenth century imperialism and colonialism through several educational spaces: curricular guidelines, textbook, teachers’ reflections on history education, material discursive classroom interactions and pupils’ communication about the topic. In a first step, we observe how entrenched and common sensical a great-power discourse about imperi…
Translating globalization theories into educational research
Much educational research on globalization aims to prepare students to be successful citizens in a global society. We propose a set of three concepts, drawing on systems theory (Nassehi, Stichweh) and theories of the subject (Butler, Foucault), to think the global which enables educational research to step back from hegemonic discourses and reflect on current practices. Globalization is understood in this approach as referring to: (1) a cognitive…
Writing the history of the victors
Recently, interest in radical democracy and communism has increased dramatically among cultural theorists. This paper draws attention to two other fields in which a similar shift is visible. First, popular scholarly writing on communism, anarchism and socialism. Second, curricular materials for history teaching. Drawing on ethnographic field work at an educational publishing house in Germany, the paper analyses the production of a history textboo…
Framing the news
This article is an ethnographic case study of a senior business reporter as he discovers, writes, and reflects on a news story. We ‘‘follow the story’’ from its entry in the newsroom through the review process during a story meeting and the writing process up to the point the story is filed for copy editing. Drawing on ethnographic data, this article sheds light on how a news story about Russian gas exports to France is discursively constructed. …
Journalism and the political
Towards a linguistics of news production
Translating globalization theories into educational research
Much educational research on globalization aims to prepare students to be successful citizens in a global society. We propose a set of three concepts, drawing on systems theory (Nassehi, Stichweh) and theories of the subject (Butler, Foucault), to think the global which enables educational research to step back from hegemonic discourses and reflect on current practices. Globalization is understood in this approach as referring to: (1) a cognitive…
Blogs, genes and immigration
This article explores the contribution of the concept of ‘minimal politics’ to understanding contemporary blogging. Politics is often used to refer only to state actions or to very rare ruptures to existing formations; citizens’ and social media are often only considered successful if they influence political leaders or lead to radical social change. The perspective adopted in this article, drawing on theories of agonistic democracy and hegemony,…
Corpus-assisted discourse studies on the Iraq conflict
Corpus-assisted discourse studies on the Iraq conflict: wording the war, edited by John Morley and Paul Bayley, New York and Oxon, Routledge, 2009, 334 pp., £100 (hardcover), ISBN 9780415852951 Eva
Writing the history of the victors
Recently, interest in radical democracy and communism has increased dramatically among cultural theorists. This paper draws attention to two other fields in which a similar shift is visible. First, popular scholarly writing on communism, anarchism and socialism. Second, curricular materials for history teaching. Drawing on ethnographic field work at an educational publishing house in Germany, the paper analyses the production of a history textboo…
Discourse and beyond?
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Register
Einleitung
Autorinnen und Autoren
Diskursforschung in der Psychologie
Der praktische Vollzug von »Bologna«
Backmatter
Vorwort
Diskursforschung
Das zweibändige Handbuch zur interdisziplinären Diskursforschung gibt einen systematischen und umfassenden Überblick über das neue Feld der Diskursforschung. Der erste Band versammelt nationale und internationale Tendenzen, Entwicklungen und Fragen der Diskursforschung. Der zweite Band stellt wichtige diskursanalytische Methoden am Beispiel des Diskurses über die neoliberalen Hochschulreformen vor.Mit seinem Schwerpunkt auf theoretischen Modellen…
Media Discourse and De/Coloniality
Fissures in the discourse-scape
This article explores one challenge facing critical discourse studies (CDS) in today’s mediatised world: the ontological and epistemological assumptions which prompt studies to analyse the construction of social orders (such as right-wing, racist or neoliberal orders) rather than the fissures and dislocations of these social orders. The former foregrounds stability, and the latter foregrounds instability. In this article, I first sketch postfound…
Die medialen Subjekte des 21. Jahrhunderts
Memory practices and colonial discourse
How self-evident is a colonial rationality today? This paper begins by tracing a ‘text trajectory’ about nineteenth century imperialism and colonialism through several educational spaces: curricular guidelines, textbook, teachers’ reflections on history education, material discursive classroom interactions and pupils’ communication about the topic. In a first step, we observe how entrenched and common sensical a great-power discourse about imperi…
What’s next for Ed-Tech? Critical hopes and concerns for the 2020s
When discourse analysts tell stories
Critical discourse analysts are being pulled in two directions. On one side, in the age of validity, inter-rater reliability and evidence-based research, it can seem subversive when researchers 'tell stories' (rather than 'write reports', 'produce findings' or 'demonstrate effectiveness'). On the other side, public relations departments encourage researchers to use 'storytelling' techniques to engage public audiences. In this paper, I draw on soc…
Datafizierte Sichtbarkeiten
Der Beitrag widmet sich den Ambivalenzen, von denen Datenpraktiken in der Schule durchzogen sind. Die Autorinnen nutzen hierfür die Metapher der Sichtbarkeit. Sie zeigen eine dreifache Verschiebung der Sichtbarkeit, wenn digitale Datentechnologien im Unterricht eingesetzt werden. Diese werden mit den Begriffen Panopticon, Panperspicon und Panspectron beschrieben. Dabei werden pädagogische und weitere schulische Praxisformen subtil und beiläufig, …
Theories of Postdigital Heterogeneity
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