Researcher or Fellow Citizen? Looking for a Role Model in the Humanities

TY - GEN

T1 - Researcher or Fellow Citizen?

T2 - 13th International Conference of the Learning Sciences

AU - Pedersen, Alex Young

AU - Caviglia, Francesco

PY - 2018/6/23

Y1 - 2018/6/23

N2 - The idea of a team of researchers working at advancing knowledge represents a strong role model for STEM education. The article suggests that an alternative role model – a community of fellow citizens engaged in solving problems of how to better live together – can be an equally compelling model for the Humanities. Mode 1 knowledge building rooted in learning within the disciplines is compared with a mode 2 focusing on context-specific knowledge, transdisciplinarity and collaborative rationality as essential ingredients of a new role model for the humanities: The fellow citizen. Two cases – a collaborative investigation carried out by an ethics committee and a literature course in a conflict-ridden area – are presented as examples of the fellow citizen in action, which build on cultural humility as a key value and dialogic literacy as an overarching learning goal.

AB - The idea of a team of researchers working at advancing knowledge represents a strong role model for STEM education. The article suggests that an alternative role model – a community of fellow citizens engaged in solving problems of how to better live together – can be an equally compelling model for the Humanities. Mode 1 knowledge building rooted in learning within the disciplines is compared with a mode 2 focusing on context-specific knowledge, transdisciplinarity and collaborative rationality as essential ingredients of a new role model for the humanities: The fellow citizen. Two cases – a collaborative investigation carried out by an ethics committee and a literature course in a conflict-ridden area – are presented as examples of the fellow citizen in action, which build on cultural humility as a key value and dialogic literacy as an overarching learning goal.

KW - knowledge building

KW - transdisciplinarity

KW - humanities

UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85053908790&partnerID=8YFLogxK

M3 - Article in proceedings

VL - 2

T3 - International Conference of the Learning Sciences, Proceedings

SP - 945

EP - 948

BT - Rethinking learning in the digital age

A2 - Kay, Judy

A2 - Luckin, Rosemary

PB - International Society of the Learning Sciences (ISLS)

CY - London

Y2 - 23 June 2018 through 27 June 2018

ER -