Keynote for CAPAL at Congress 2016. Explores stepping beyond the boundaries of institutional education and roles, conceptualizing networked practice in light of Haraway's cyborg and new identities, engagement, and publics.
Bonnie StewartAssistant Professor of Online Pedagogy & Workplace Learning at University of Windsor
Beyond the Institution: Networked Professionals & Digital Engagement in Higher Education
1. BEYOND THE INSTITUTION:
Networked professionals & digital
engagement in higher education
Bonnie Stewart
@bonstewart
University of Prince Edward Island
Canadian Association of Professional Academic Librarians
Congress 2016
8. "For the first time in human history, two related
propositions are true. One, it no longer is possible to
store within the human brain all of the information that
a human needs.
Second, it no longer is necessary to store within the
human brain all of the information that humans need.
Education needs to be geared toward the handling of
data rather than the accumulation of data.”
Context for Communication, Berlo, 1975
25. So what visions do we have for “going
beyond” into networked practice?
What do professional identities *look
like* beyond the boundaries?
¤ Abundance is not a deterministic system, but a
complexification of systems
¤ Higher ed is not over, just complexified
¤ Important to work towards new
systems that operate on logics of learning, not just
business or media
26. Networked practice beyond the boundaries:
1. Opening up identity
2. Opening up engagement & contribution
3. Opening up publics
27. VISION 1: IDENTITY
In institutional
structures, an individual
has a role.
In a networked culture,
an individual
has an identity, which it
is his/her job to
differentiate.
28. Networked education looks like THIS
https://www.flickr.com/photos/122135325@N06/15117809516/in/dateposted/
35. Networked identities can amplify
vulnerability
via commodification + re-inscription of societal biases
36. …can we just go back in the
schoolhouse?
• 76.4% of instructional staff in US higher ed are contingent
(AAUP, 2014)
• 67.5% of instructional staff in ON colleges are p/t (Colleges
Ontario, 2013)
• StatsCan stopped tracking full-time faculty in 2011 L
37. Cyborg identities
Non-binary, subversive, & unfaithful to their origins
http://www.flickr.com/photos/13521837@N00/2577665727/
“The dichotomies
between mind &
body, animal &
human, organism &
machine, public &
private, nature &
culture, men &
women, primitive &
civilized are all in
question ideologically”
- Haraway,1991
39. “Cyborg writing is
about the power to
survive, not on the
basis of original
innocence but on the
basis of seizing the
tools to mark the
world that marked
them as other.”
- Haraway, 1991
http://www.flickr.com/photos/rizzato/2342959844/
40. VISION 2: ENGAGEMENT &
CONTRIBUTION
In institutional structures,
gatekeeping is a hallmark of
official communication &
contribution.
In a networked culture, the
means/modes are open, but
the communicator must
cultivate his/her audience.
https://thestateofchange.files.wordpress.com/2011/08/water.jpg
55. https://www.flickr.com/photos/seandavis/16528463225/
Hashtag activism = cyborg engagement?
“Bodies are maps of power and
identity.
A cyborg body is not innocent; it was
not born in a garden; it does not seek
unitary identity and so generate
antagonistic dualisms without end (or
until the world ends).
The machine is us, our processes, an
aspect of our embodiment.”
- A Cyborg Manifesto, Haraway, 1991
58. Networked practices = scholarship
¤ Scholarship of discovery
¤ Scholarship of integration
¤ Scholarship of application
¤ Scholarship of teaching
!
(Boyer, 1990)
59. But a scholarship of abundance
https://www.flickr.com/photos/92998734@N03/8466586880/
60. Do our professional identities, engagement
& publics reflect the networked complexity
of contemporary higher ed?
https://c3.staticflickr.com/9/8013/7464195058_24f7388dc3_b.jpg