Postphenomenology and Technologies within Educational Settings - (Postphenomenology and the Philosophy of Technology) (Hardcover)

About the Book

This volume explores the human-technology relations that both shape modern educational settings and have a decisive influence on what education is and will be in the future. The contributors present empirical evidence to challenge and reframe the goal of education in relation to technology.

Book Synopsis

This volume explores the human-technology relations that both shape modern educational settings and have a decisive influence on what education is and will be in the future. The contributors present empirical evidence to challenge and reframe the goal of education in relation to technology.

Review Quotes

ldquo;This collection is a work of art that will undoubtedly become a seminal text and highly cited for many years to come. It is a call to action for human beings to be more attentive to the ways in which technologies mediate our relations with and in the world during a time in which this has never been more pressing given the rapid growth and power of big tech companies, artificial intelligence, social technology platforms, immersive technologies, and big data in educational technologies. Even more significantly, this work is a wake-up call for us to see the ways that educational technologies are not neutral, but rather constitute subject and world. It is our moral and ethical responsibility as human beings to exercise our freedoms in how technologies impact us. It is a critical time for education. Empowering human beings with freedom and agency has never been more important. Bohlmann and Breilrsquo;s timely collection has never been more deeply needed than at our present momentrdquo;

About the Author

Markus Bohlmann is postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Philosophy at ?Muenster University.
Patrizia Breil is research assistant at the collaborative research center Virtual Lifeworlds at Ruhr University Bochum.