Learning and environments of learning: plus ca change

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Learning and environments of learning plus ca
change?

• Gunther Kress
• School of Culture Language and Communication
• Institute of Education
• University of London

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• The shift from Teaching to Learning a story from
  the mid-eighties
• A centre for teaching and learning
• vs
• A centre for learning and teaching
• The issues diversity and authority

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The issues
The changing environment the State vs the
Market Authority and PowerAuthority, Learning,
Design The changing world of representation and
communication Modes, media, genres Processes
transformation, transduction and arrangements
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A pedants question

• E-, m-, online -, ubiquitous -, life-long -,
  life-wide -, personalized, etc learning
• So what is learning?

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• Two examples
• Early writing
• being scientific

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Alphabetic writing work
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Character based writngwork
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Learning and environments of learning

• What is to be learned?
• Attention, framing and engagement

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• Semiotic work and meaning
• Semiotic work produces change
• Semiotic work changes the tools, that which is
  worked on and the worker
• Semiotic work produces change
• Change produces meaning
• Semiotic work produces meaning

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Meaning and Learning

• Meaning a focus on communication
• Learning a focus on resources as tools for
  acting in / on the world
• Learning as the augmentation of resources as
  tools

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Onion cells eyepiece
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Onion cell bricks
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What is learning?

• Early writing and being scientific
• What is framed? Who has framed?
• Whose attention? Whose power?
• Whose work? Whose agency?
• What learning?

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Pedagogy and learning

• Whose power? In what form? In what domain?
• Whose agenda? How presented / shaped (modes and
  media)? Whose design?
• From pedagogy to rhetoric?

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Mobile learning and contemporary environments

• The state vs the market
• The state as servant of the market
• The learner as consumer

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Mobile learning

• Who is mobile?
• What is mobile?
• The affordances of technologies

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Mobile learning

• The triumph of pedagogic discourse
• or the victory of the neo-liberal project?
• Personalized learning and
• the curricularization of the world
• What place for community?

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